{"id":6,"date":"2026-10-29T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:51:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kb-about\" id=\"kb-about\" aria-label=\"About\"><div class=\"kb-wrap\"><div class=\"kb-brand kb-brand-about reveal\"><span class=\"kb-brand-script\">Kaye Bohler<\/span><span class=\"kb-brand-sub\">BAND<\/span><\/div><h2 class=\"kb-about-heading reveal\">Four decades of blues, soul and big-band fire \u2014 still stepping out.<\/h2><div class=\"kb-about-body reveal\"><p>Kaye Bohler is a California blues and soul singer-songwriter whose career has spanned four decades of non-stop touring, interrupted only by the pandemic. With a vocal range of more than three octaves, she moves from operatic highs to deep soul growls with ease.<\/p><p>She thinks of herself as a student of mid-century modern American roots music, from big band swing to late-1970s funk \u2014 and she leads anything from a small trio to a 10-piece big band. Along the way she has shared stages with Boz Scaggs, Elvin Bishop, Robert Cray, Gatemouth Brown, Irma Thomas, Magic Slim, Pinetop Perkins and Rod Piazza, and played festivals from the Monterey Blues Festival to Blues by the Bay in Eureka, the Fountain Blues Festival in San Jose and the Gilroy Garlic Festival.<\/p><p>Her five albums and three singles feature guests such as Robben Ford, Tommy Castro and Pete Anderson. Right now she is promoting her Rat Pack to Rhythm &amp; Blues show and celebrating her new album, <em>Homegrown<\/em>, arriving October 30, 2026.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"kb-about-photos\"><figure class=\"reveal\"><img src=\"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Kaye-in-blue-dress-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kaye Bohler portrait\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/figure><figure class=\"reveal\"><img src=\"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/d6e63318-9388-4e6b-b190-edb179aa16eb.jpg\" alt=\"Kaye Bohler performing\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"><\/figure><\/div><ul class=\"kb-timeline reveal\" aria-label=\"Career timeline\"><li><strong>1981<\/strong> <span>Begins classical vocal study in San Diego<\/span><\/li><li><strong>1983<\/strong> <span>Singing waitress, sitting in with bands, singing telegrams<\/span><\/li><li><strong>1986<\/strong> <span>Lands an L.A. gig \u2014 six nights a week for six years<\/span><\/li><li><strong>1990<\/strong> <span>Comes home to the blues; forms The Big K Blues Band<\/span><\/li><li><strong>1998\u20132000<\/strong> <span>Fronts the nationally known 10-piece Pele Juju<\/span><\/li><li><strong>2009<\/strong> <span>&quot;Like A Flower&quot; \u2014 soul, jazz and R&amp;B with Robben Ford and Tommy Castro<\/span><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong> <span>&quot;Handle the Curves&quot;, produced by Pete Anderson<\/span><\/li><li><strong>2015\u20132023<\/strong> <span>Social-consciousness singles released<\/span><\/li><li><strong>Now<\/strong> <span>New album &quot;Homegrown&quot; arrives October 30, 2026; Rat Pack to Rhythm &amp; Blues show<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"kb-about-links reveal\"><a class=\"kb-text-link\" href=\"#kb-about\">MEET THE BAND<\/a><a class=\"kb-text-link\" href=\"#kb-press\">PRESS<\/a><\/p><p class=\"kb-see-more reveal\"><a class=\"kb-btn-outline kb-see-more-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/?page_id=6\">SEE MORE<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayebohler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}