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Catherine Davis "Kate" Higgins (born August 16, 1969) is an American voice actress, singer, and jazz pianist. She was born in Charlottesville, Virginia grew up in Auburn, Alabama, and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is best known as the English voice of Sakura Haruno on the hit anime series Naruto, Talho Yūki from Eureka Seven, C.C. from Code Geass and Saber from the anime Fate/stay Night. As of 2010, she is now the official voice of Miles "Tails" Prower of the SEGA video game series Sonic the Hedgehog. She has also been credited under the name of Kate Davis. She gave birth to her first son, Beckett, in 2009 and her second son, Foster, in 2010 with her husband Jess Lofland.
Higgins earned a degree in music from Auburn University. She is a trained pianist who studied with the jazz pianist, Bob Richardson. As well as voice acting, Higgins pursued her music career in jazz. She plays piano and has worked as a sideperson for many musicians. She released the first jazz album by her own name The Tide is Low in 2002. The second jazz album is Stealing Freedom. Her style of hard-bop is expressed in her jazz albums and she has played with other musicians like Katisse Buckingham, Justin Robinson, Roy Hargrove, Steven Bernstein, Tom Harrell, Eric Alexander, Marc Johnson, Christian McBride, Lewis Nash, Bobby Previte, Vic Juris, Jesse Davis, Mike Fahn, Greg Osby, Joe Lovano, Josh Roseman and many others. She is also in a band called Upperstructure. This features the same lineup as Melissa Fahn's R&B band in her album Avignon. They released one album called 6 by 5. Her piano idols are Thelonious Monk, Wynton Kelly and Horace Silver.
Alan Bissett (born 17 November 1975) is an author and playwright from Hallglen, an area of Falkirk in Scotland. After the publication of his first two novels, Boyracers and The Incredible Adam Spark, he became known for his different take on Scots dialect writing, evolving a style specific to Falkirk, suffused with popular culture references and Socialist politics. Bissett used to lecture in creative writing at Bretton Hall College, now part of the University of Leeds, and tutored the creative writing MLitt at the University of Glasgow alongside Janice Galloway and Tom Leonard. He became a full-time writer in December 2007.
Bissett was born in 1975. He attended Falkirk High School and then the University of Stirling, where he gained a First Class Honours degree in English literature and education. After a short spell as a secondary school teacher at Elgin Academy, Bissett was awarded a Masters degree in English from the University of Stirling, during which time he edited a collection of Scottish Gothic stories, Damage Land (2001), and wrote his first novel, Boyracers. His stories were either short- or longlisted for the national Macallan Short-Story Competition four times between 1999 and 2002. His third novel, Death of a Ladies' Man was published by Hachette Scotland in July 2009. In 2009 Bissett moved into playwriting: his first play, The Ching Room, was performed at Oran Mor and Traverse Theatre in March 2009, starring Andy Clarke and Colin McCredie. It was followed by Times When I Bite, or The Moira Monologues a 'one-woman show' which Bissett has performed himself (at Glasgow literary festival Aye Write! in March 2009, at the Kikinda Short Story Festival in Serbia in June 2009, and at Traverse Theatre in November 2009. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Bissett described the inspiration for the character of Moira Bell.
Yuri Lowenthal & Kate Higgins - Sasuke Proposes to Sakura
Kate Higgins-Gaming Voices
Tom Gibis , Kate Higgins Interview [JapanMinute Uncut]
Kate Higgins - Working With Todd And Resnick Interactive
Kate Higgins : "Easy to Save" {Bigger Than Love}
Interview with Kate Higgins
Kate Higgins at Kulak's Woodshed: Singer Songwriter Music
Chula Meets Kate Higgins
Kate Higgins and Yuri Lowenthal Voice Over (Audio)
Voice Actor Facts #15 - Kate Higgins.wmv
Tails Voice Impression Reel~ Kate Higgins
Bright Lights by Léonie Kate Higgins - Official Trailer
Sakura and Sasuke answer your cell phone
Kate Higgins
Actors: Al Cerullo (miscellaneous crew), Annette Badland (actress), Ben Gibson (producer), Nicholas Farrell (actor), Jay Simpson (actor), Helene Lenszner (miscellaneous crew), Edward Jewesbury (actor), Jonny Phillips (actor), Roger Sloman (actor), Julian Firth (actor), Linda Bassett (actress), Dado Jehan (actor), Chris Collins (producer), Justin Krish (editor), Charles Kay (actor),
Plot: In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match.
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