Everyone that meets sixteen year-old entertainer Katelyn Tarver knows that she is a multi-talented young woman.  She’s best known as a finalist on the hit Fox TV series American Idol Juniors, where she won the heart of America each week, entertaining a cumulative audience of 35 million people.  She has since shared the stage with Kimberly Locke, Jeff Foxworthy, Jesse McCarthy and American Idol finalist Bo Bice.  In addition, Katelyn has headlined the Camplified Tour in the summer of 2005, the Radio Disney Incubator Tour in 2006 and performed at major venues around the U.S.  And as if her blossoming music career wasn’t keeping her busy enough, she can be seen in numerous commercials and print ads and in the just released film The Barbie Diaries playing the title role.

In the small friendly town of Glennville, Georgia, Katelyn Tarver grew up in a home filled with music.  Her mother was a member of the church choir and her father is an avid southern blues guitarist.  As Katelyn tells it, “There was always music in our life, the church, the house and always the car radio.”  At an early age, Katelyn taught herself “the feel” and “interpretation” of pop music, and before long was developing her own distinctive style.

Eager to perform for a larger audience in addition to her family and friends, the Tarver’s traveled to Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2003 to audition for American Idol Juniors.