Katherine Beinecke Michel
Katherine Beinecke Michel is the wife of singer-songwriter, producer and guitarist, Adam Schlesinger -best known as a founding member of the band Fountains of Wayne.
Katherine’s husband is currently being treated at a hospital after contracting coronavirus also known as Covid19. According to reports, the 52-year-old musician is currently on a ventilator to help him breathe.
Born Adam Schlesinger on October 31, 1967; the New Yorker is an Emmy and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. In addition to Fountains of Wayne, Adam has also been a member of the band Ivy, and Tinted Windows.
The award-winning performer was nominated for two Grammys with his band Fountains of Wayne, and later winning one for his work on the comedy album A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All! He’s also won three Emmys and was nominated for a best-original-song Oscar in 1997 for the track for That Thing You Do! Schlesinger is also an EGOT nominee, having been nominated for a best-original-score Tony and best musical in 2008 for his work on Cry-Baby.
He and wife, Katherine Beinecke Michel have been married for over two decades. The two had met in 1996, at a bar on Hudson Street. Three years later, they tied the knot at Le Zoo, on Jan. 30, 1999.
While they were still dating, Katherine Beinecke Michel accompanied her then-boyfriend to LA when his song “That Thing You Do!” was nominated for an Academy Award. Katherine then joked, how she became a rock star groupie.
Katherine Beinecke Michel who goes by Katie Michel is a Yale graduate who worked as a graphic designer at Grenfell Press, a publisher of art books in New York -where she worked from 1995 until 1997 as a graphic designer, printer and print publisher.
In 2013, she founded the art gallery, Planthouse Gallery in New York City. Katherine’s great grandmother, Jules Bache, amassed a collection of art -and which was mostly donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
According to its website , Katherine Beinecke Michel serves on the boards of the International Print Center New York and Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in the Bronx. Michel is a member of the Victory Garden Collective formed in 2016 in response to the presidential primaries.
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