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Re: KaTe in lookalike TV show

From: Anders Hultman <anders.hultman@unisource.se>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:00:36 +0200
Subject: Re: KaTe in lookalike TV show
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Richard Bensam wrote:
> 
> Anders Hultman wrote:
> 
> >KaTe was featured in a lookalike contest on Swedish national TV on
> >September 27th. The show is called "Sikta mot Stjärnorna" and is based on
> >Endemol Entertainment's format "Soundmix Show". People imitate well known
> >artists both by looking like them and singing like them. The song covered
> >in the show was "Wuthering Heigths". The show had 1,540,000 viewers.
> >
> >A picture can be seen on http://www.mtv.se/tvp/sms96/4katebush.html
> 
> I don't think she looks all that much like Kate but she DEFINITELY has the
> right eyes!
> 
> Wait a minute.  Looking like them and *singing* like them?  How did she
> sound?

Fairly good. Credible. It wasn't like KaTe of course, but a person that 
only have heard KaTe on the radio a couple of times could be fooled.

And she won the contest.

> And have the Swedes heard of Happy Rhodes yet?  (Apart from those
> of you in this group, that is.)

I don't think so. I have in fact never heard her, and I've only read about 
her here.

anders
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