Katharine McPhee
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Born in Sherman Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles, Katharine McPhee has been singing since the age of two. Her mother, Peisha Burch McPhee, a vocal coach and accomplished cabaret singer, recognized a talent for music in her daughter and started training her. Katharine McPhee graduated in the class of 2002 from Notre Dame High School after which she attended The Boston Conservatory for three semesters with a concentration in musical theater. She left because she met a manager who wanted her to try out for parts during the television pilot season in Los Angeles. She did a pilot and an independent film.  At the Cabrillo Music Theater in Thousand Oaks, California, Katharine McPhee performed the title role in a musical theatre production of Annie Get Your Gun. In June 2005 she played Anna Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, a musical by Scott DeTurk and Bill Francoeur, at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood.

During her initial audition for American Idol in San Francisco, Katharine McPhee sang "God Bless the Child." Judge Randy Jackson said she was the best voice he had heard so far that season, judge Paula Abdul praised her looks, and judge Simon Cowell said "parts of that were absolutely sensational," and that she was very "current." Katharine McPhee's mother had gone with her to the audition, and Cowell made a comment about the possibility that the elder McPhee was a stage mother.

Katharine McPhee's run on American Idol led to the popular use of the term "McPheever," coined by Ralph Garman of Los Angeles radio station KROQ's morning show Kevin and Bean, and also "McPhan," "McPhaith" and "Kat Pack."

Katharine McPhee was congratulated by Congressman Brad Sherman of Sherman Oaks, the 27th district of California by raising a flag in her honor at the United States Capitol on the day of the finale show.

On May 24, 2006, Katharine McPhee finished second to Taylor Hicks, the winner of American Idol.

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