PSU Magazine Fall 1999

Kadderly also handles the standards with aplomb. Her second CD, "Down Right Big Time," featured her sultry voice in such standards as "I've Grown Accustomed to His Face" and "April in Paris." Both recordings and an ----·•e'""artier cassette tape, "Mary Kadderly, " When an audience member approached her years ago and asked, "Do you teach?" Kadderly thought, "I can do that," and answered "yes." From that first student, her teaching career blossomed and for the past dozen years she's taught voice at Portland Community College. And she still does commercials regularly, especially radio. were released on Kadderly's own label, marymargaret music. C ritics have called her voice "silky smooth, articulate, with a some– times smoky, sexy resonance in the alto range," and she considers herself "a cross between Sarah Vaughan and Bonnie Raitt with a dash of Holly Golightly." But as with many artists, Kadderly's critical success still needs ---- support frnm th nine-to-five world. But performing is clearly her forte . A week after she appeared at the Heathman, on a day as gloomy as it gets in Oregon, Kadderly stepped up to a microphone, closed her eyes and conjured up a sun scorched Brazilian beach as she purred a sultry "The Girl from lpanema." D .I I ! - Hear snippets of Mary Kadderly's music at her Web site, www.marykadderly.com