NEW YORK -- Former "American Idol" star Katharine McPhee has signed a new deal with Verve. The artist is recording her label debut, due before the end of the year.

McPhee released a lone self-titled album for RCA in late 2006, which has sold 375,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Since then she's dabbled in acting, including a role in the 2008 comedy "The House Bunny."

"The album she is working on will show many new sides to her talents as an interpreter and a songwriter, and show everyone just how special she is," Verve Music Group president/CEO Bruce Resnikoff said.

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Verve/Forecast Records was an excellent label for Katharine McPhee when she released her second album Unbroken because on that album we got to see a whole different sound that really should've fit on her first album but after the first single Had It All was released from Unbroken I think Verve/Forecast didn't promote the album enough and that's why Verve/Forecast dropped her. Because Verve Records is a excellent label that has artists like Diana Krall and many other jazz artists I think since the launch of Verve/Forecast Records they started adding artists such as Gloria Estefan and with Katharine McPhee they would've made her huge in the jazz/easy listening market. It's no secret that with her third album Hysteria that she went back to dance pop. But her covers album When I Grow Too Old To Dream is excellent and finds her way back to the easy listening market
Bestie

Hi, Bestie! Was she a singer first or an actress first?
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