McPhee has been singing since the age of two. Her mother, Peisha McPhee, a vocal coach and accomplished cabaret singer, recognized a talent for music in her daughter and started training her. Her father, Daniel McPhee, is a producer who has worked on numerous television series and other projects. Katharine graduated from Notre Dame High School in 2002. She then attended the Boston Conservatory of Music. At the Cabrillo Music Theater in Thousand Oaks, California, she performed the title role in a musical theatre production of Annie Get Your Gun, for which she was nominated for a 2005 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation award for Best Actress.
McPhee has an older sister, named Adrianna, and lists Whitney Houston and Brian McKnight as her favorite artists.
In June 2005 she played Anna Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, a musical by Scott DeTurk and Bill Francoeur, based on the book by R.A. Dick at NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood, California.
During her initial audition for American Idol in San Francisco, she sang "God Bless the Child." Judge Randy Jackson said she was the best voice he had yet heard that season, judge Paula Abdul praised her looks, and judge Simon Cowell said she was amazing and "current." However, McPhee's mother had gone with Katharine to the audition, and Cowell made a comment about the possibility that the elder McPhee was a stage mother.
In the final cut-down show for the Top 24, she was the first to be put through and, in excitement, kissed all three judges on the lips. She cried both when she passed her initial audition and when she made it into the Top 24.
In the first round of the semi-finals, she sang Barbra Streisand's "Since I Fell for You," again earning high praises as Cowell said that out of the four "very, very good vocalists" of the night, she was the best.
During the week leading to the third round of the semi-finals, where Katharine sang Aretha Franklin's "Think," she was rumored to be quitting due to pregnancy. However, during the performance show on March 7, 2006, she denied this accusation, later attributing it to a poor choice of clothing. Host Ryan Seacrest, with tongue-in-cheek, asked about her and fellow idol contestant Kevin Covais.
On the March 29, 2006 results show Katharine was in the bottom three with Ace Young and Lisa Tucker. She ended up in the bottom two with Lisa, but was not eliminated.
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