Hailing from a little suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Kate Voegele first picked up a guitar at age 15.
Record sales jumped dramatically after Voegele’s first appearance on the show, and she was subsequently upstreamed to Interscope Records in January of 2008.
co-stars Tyler Hilton and Megan Park tied the knot on Saturday, Oct.
Influenced by the rock and roll history of the city and her father’s songwriting, she began to pen her own songs from the minute she learned to play her first three chords.
Voegele embraced this newfound passion, recording her first EP during her freshman year of high school, and soon after landed gigs alongside artists like Counting Crows and John Mayer.
Those shows quickly led to attention from labels in New York and LA, and Kate spent the majority of her high school years diving headfirst into a career in music.
After high school, Voegele decided to attend Ohio’s Miami University, where she quickly found new inspiration, and simultaneously found herself uploading song after song to her My Space page.
10 in an intimate fall-themed ceremony, and in front of friends and family.
"It was everything we wanted it to be and it was so nice after so many years together to finally celebrate our relationship with all of our friends and family,” Park tells Us Weekly exclusively.
Over the next couple of years Voegele toured the country playing hundreds of shows.
While traveling through LA, Kate auditioned on a whim and would eventually land the role of Mia Catalano on the CW show, “One Tree Hill.” What was supposed to be a two-episode run became a four-season recurrence, and Kate found herself performing eleven of her original songs to millions of viewers over the course of the show.