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KATHY TROCCOLI

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Kathleen Colleen Troccoli (born June 28, 1958) is a contemporary Christian music|contemporary Christian singer, author, and speaker.

Personal
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 24, 1958, Troccoli moved at age three and was raised in the East Islip community in Long Island, and graduated from East Islip High School, where as a senior, fellow classmates included fellow CCM artist Margaret Becker (a junior) and three-sport star Boomer Esiason|Norman Esiason, Jr, a freshman. At 15, she lost her father to colon cancer. She also lost her mother to breast cancer in 1991, shortly before her album, Pure Attraction, hit the shelves with her number one mainstream hit, "Everything Changes". Before this album came out, she had taken a five year break from the music world to do some "soul searching" and deal with her bulimia.

Musical recognition
After graduation, she attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston for a year, studying jazz, before returning home to community college in the Long Island region. While working a job to pay the college bill, she gave her life to Christ (1978), and the alto voice gave rise when she opened for Ed Nalle's group Glad (band)|GLAD in 1980 during a concert in the area.

Nalle assisted Troccoli in her career, helping the young artist record demos which would be given to Michael Blanton and Dan Harrell (Amy Gra... read all