a "local" cincinnati/columbus, ohio musician passed away yesterday after a 2+ year bout with cancer. while i didn't know katie well, i had met and talked with her on several occasions, in every single interaction i had with her i found her to be sweet, charming, cheerful and happy...simply a beautiful person. honestly, i always recall seeing her smiling, which is how i'll remember her. and so talented and gifted.
my heartfelt condolences and best wishes to katie's family and loved ones. she fought the brave and good fight against this horrible disease...
Katie Reider-this was from what, sadly & unexpectedly, turned out to be her last show
from the Cincinnati Enquirer
Musician Katie Reider dies
By Lauren Bishop • lbishop@enquirer.com • July 14, 2008
Cincinnati-born singer-songwriter Katie Reider, 30, died Monday morning after a two-year battle with a rare tumor that robbed her of her ability to do what she loved most – perform.
Reider was the daughter of Rob Reider, best known as the band leader on the Cincinnati-based syndicated entertainment program “The Bob Braun Show” in the 1970s and ’80s, and Gaile Reider, who died of cancer in August 2007 at age 58.
“The mother and child reunion going on in heaven right now must be unbelievable,” her father said Monday from his Montgomery home.
Katie Reider, one of five children, grew up in Montgomery surrounded by music. She received her first guitar, a red Gibson Epiphone, from her parents when she was in fifth grade.
Reider developed a folk-pop style that’s been compared to Sarah McLachlan, Ani DiFranco and Shawn Colvin.
Janet Pressley, a singer-songwriter and co-founder of Reider’s label, Blue Jordan Records, recalled seeing Reider perform at the now-closed Blue Jordan Coffeehouse in Northside in about 1993. Reider was then in high school at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy.
“She had the pipes then,” Pressley said. Blue Jordan released three of Reider’s albums: “Wonder” (1998), “No Retakes” (2001) and “I Am Ready” (2002). She asked her father to co-produce and engineer her last album, “Simplicity” (2004), which features her brother Robbie on guitar. Reider performed everywhere from small cafés to big events, including Taste of Cincinnati and the Tall Stacks Music, Arts & Heritage Festival. She won five local music awards and gained national recognition when her songs were used on ABC, Lifetime and the WB series “Dawson’s Creek.” In the midst of working on her fifth album and touring, Reider went to the dentist in February 2006 for what she thought was a toothache. After multiple diagnoses and treatments, doctors diagnosed her in June 2007 with a rare myofibroblastic inflammation tumor that had progressed from her sinus and upper left jaw to behind her left eye. The non-cancerous growth left Reider blind in her left eye and took away her ability to speak clearly and sing. Treatment included multiple rounds of chemotherapy, which nearly shrank the tumor in its entirety.
Throughout her illness, Reider stayed connected with her friends and fans by posting updates on her blog, www.myspace.com/katiereiderband. In her last entry, posted June 21, Reider talked about having a “strange cough” that required her to take antibiotics through a feeding tube. But she could still eat some food by mouth.
“I have found that nothing is more tasty than an avocado or a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese,” she wrote.
She also wrote about how much she enjoyed a June vacation with her partner, Karen Reider and their two sons to Rob Reider’s house in Maine.
While on vacation in Bethany Beach, Del., over the Fourth of July holiday, Reider began to hemorrhage from a major artery in her brain as the tumor dislodged.
Doctors were able to stop the bleeding and scheduled surgery for August to remove the rest of the tumor and reconstruct the left side of her face and upper palate.
But the bleeding started again Sunday, and Reider died just before 7 a.m. Monday in an ambulance that was taking her from a hospital near her home in Montclair, N.J., to Beth Israel Hospital in New York City.
In May, fan and friend Lauren Fernandes launched a Web site, http://www.500Kin365.org" target="_blank">www.500Kin365.org, where fans can donate $1 for a digital compilation of nine of Reider’s original songs. All proceeds from the compilation and private donations will continue to help Reider’s family pay her medical bills and funeral arrangements, which are pending.
In addition to her father, survivors include her partner of 10 years, Karen, of Montclair, N.J.; their sons, Aiden, 3, and Koen, 1; two brothers, Robbie, 33, of Norwood; and Andy, 23, a pastoral studies major at the College of Mount St. Joseph; and three sisters, Kristin, 39, of New York state; Abby, 27, of Indiana; and Beth, 25, of California.
Service arrangements are pending
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