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Catherine Elizabeth Pierson, better known as Kate Pierson (born April 27, 1948) is an American vocalist, lyricist, and one of the singers and founding members of The B-52's. A multi-instrumentalist, she plays guitar, bass and various keyboard instruments. In the B-52s, she has performed alongside Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider, Ricky Wilson, and Keith Strickland.
In February 2015, Pierson released her first solo album, Guitars and Microphones, featuring material co-written by Sia Furler. She later released the non-album single "Better Not Sting the Bee," and on April 15, 2016 she released a cover of "Venus" as a single.
She is the owner of Kate's Lazy Desert in Landers, California, and Kate's Lazy Meadow in Mount Tremper, New York, a rustic modern lodge in New York's Catskill Mountains. She operates the businesses with Monica Coleman, her partner since 2003. On August 3, 2015, Pierson and Coleman married in a ceremony attended by the B-52's, singer Sia Furler and Furler's husband, Erik Anders Lang.
Collaborations
Pierson has collaborated with the following bands and singers:
The Ramones, in the early 1980s on the song, "Chop Suey", with Cindy Wilson and Debbie Harry, the title is available as bonus track on the Ramones' re-release CD Pleasant Dreams.
Cindy, Kate, and Keith were part of the group "Melon" and recorded two songs ("I Will Call You" and "Honeydew") for a Japanese TV show titled "Snakeman Show". The soundtrack LP from 1980 or CD from 1988 was only released in Japan.
Fred Schneider, on his Fred Schneider & the Shake Society solo album from 1984 on songs "Monster," "Summer in Hell," "I'm Gonna Haunt You" and "Boonga (The New Jersey Caveman)".
With Cindy Wilson on their common cover of the McFadden & Whitehead's song "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now", recorded for the soundtrack The Associate in 1996
The soundtrack for The Rugrats Movie, released in 1998 contains the track "The World Is Something New To Me" and features, Kate, Fred and Cindy along with other artists.
"We Are Family", a single released to raise money for the victims of the September 11 attacks features Kate and Fred in the chorus and on the DVD documentation.
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason have Kate singing on their 2003 album Relax Your Mind, on the track "Bad Attitude"
She was also a member of the Japanese group NiNa with Yuki Isoya and co-wrote and performed a complete album, with the hit singles "Happy Tomorrow" and "Aurora Tour". The album and singles were only released in Japan. Two songs were used as the ending theme song to the anime Arc the Lad.
The soundtrack album Phineas and Ferb: Rockin' and Rollin' released in September 2013 features Kate singing: "Let's Spend Half A Day". The album is only available as download.
Pierson, with The B-52's, appeared on an episode of the CBS soap opera Guiding Light in 1982.
Pierson, with The B-52's, performed a parody of the song "Love Shack" titled "Glove Slap" in an episode of The Simpsons (1999, "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)").
Phineas and Ferb (2012): performed the song "Spend Half a Day" in the episode, "Perry the Actorpus".