La Bio The KAT
Une Rockeuse féline
à la voix puissante et
ensorcelante!
2011 L'album «I'm the Kat!» réalisé sous le label Midnightsun Music avec 16 artistes dont
J.J.Milteau (Harmonica), Kenny Neal (guitar), Ron Smyth, Michael Robinson..(chant). Kat choisit Boney Fields comme directeur artistique, il compose pour elle le titre «I'm the Kat!» qui donnera son nom à l'album et Kevin Bowe l'auteur du fameux «The Blues is my Business» d'Etta James participe aussi en lui envoyant «The Trains» et «Nothing like the blues». Chelsea écrit «Lipstick & Tears».
Un album aux racines Blues avec des compostions en anglais et en français dont elle signe
deux titres. Pour la sortie de l'album The Kat a fait découvrir son spectacle musical au public de sa ville natale au Théâtre La Luna durant 3 semaines au Festival d'Avignon.
Notons aussi un vidéo clip de Rachid Jaber sur le titre «Lipstick & Tears» et une pochette
d'album peinte par l'artiste J-Paul Bocaj représentant The Kat dans son univers Comics-Rock. «I'm the Kat!» attire un large public grâce à des arrangements construits autour du rock-blues-jazz et du funk! Une centaine de radios françaises et américaines... l'ont déjà adopté.
C'est à l'occasion de la présentation de l'album «Funk If I Know» de Bernard Allison
accompagné de son père «Luther», qu'elle sympathise avec le trompettiste Boney Fields qui organise de nombreuses jams riches de rencontres auxquelles Kat ne manque pas d'assister.
Lors de son périple aux Etats Unis en 1997 Kat se produit à l'Izzy Bar ainsi qu'au Red Lion
(N-Y) aux côtés des musiciens de Buddy Miles.
Lucky Peterson l'invite en 1999 sur la scène du Rockstore de Montpellier et décide de la
faire découvrir à son public sur la scène du New Morning et de Bagnols Blues Festival tout comme Boney Fields, Bernard Allison, Ron Smyth, Jimmy Johnson, U.P Wilson, Tom Principato, Van
Wilks et Kenny Neal (Méridien-2010) l' ont aussi invitée à les rejoindre dans divers festivals de jazz et de blues.
Quelques références parmi les nombreux lieux où ils se sont produits:
Festivals: Enghien Jazz Festival, Blues in Aout Montreuil sur Mer 62, Les Kiosqueries d'Houlgate.
Scènes Parisiennes: Petit journal Montparnasse, Scène Bastille, Théâtre La Reine Blanche Centres
Culturels: Le Lièvre d'or (Dreux), Georges Simenon (Rosny sous Bois), Le Forum (Les Angles-30)
The Kat has followed the path of great Rock Stars and has worked together with remarkable composers and musicians such as Kevin Bowe, Guy Hans, Boney Fields, Dany Blondeau, Chelsea...
"I'mtheKat!"is my first album. I knew it would feature Rock & Blues songs as well as other rhythms such as pop, funk and jazz, because life has offered me occasions to meet all sorts of musicians and play different music genres.
Then I called my friend Boney Fields and asked him if he would be interested in producing my album. So, Boney answered "Of course It's time to make your Album, let’s go to work"
I did not hesitate to contact the best rock songwriters. I was particularly interested in a certain Kevin Bowe, whose memory I had kept since his involvement with the album "Let's Roll" by
Etta James; such a memory triggered my desire to get to work.
So, little by little, I collected several titles during summer 2009-2010, along with Guy Hans,
a composer I discovered on the net.
I knocked at some doors and I was lucky to get responses. "Kevin Bowe" instantly sent me six titles.
I chose two songs that Boney arranged just to fit my style, and he did this for the entire album. so first we worked with Guy H. recording just his guitar and my voice during 2009-2010's summer, then Chelsea appeared with an incredible motown title: "Lipstick & Tears" that Boney chose to adapt "Pop" with horns and backgrounds...
I also wrote two songs: "Droit au Blues" featuring J.J.Milteau (harmonica) and "Redescends sur terre" (“Come back to earth”, which, let me say, has nothing to do with God) with the excellent Kenny Neal from Baton-Rouge (Louisiana).
I had the opportunity to do a cover by B.J.Sharp's "Never felt no Blues" that Boney had advised
me to sing in 1999
I have profited from my previous experience, but I have to wait many years before I was ready to launch such a project. The album would have never sounded the way it does now, if life had not done its job, bringing me enough maturity to interpret some of these compositions.
I met Boney in 1996 at a special show in Paris, celebrating the release of the Album the "Funkifiknow" which brought together Luther Allison and his son Bernard. I was sure that he was to become a good friend and one of the best actors within the Blues scenario. He introduced me to great artists such
as Lucky Peterson, Bernard Allison, Kenny Neal, U.P. Wilson, Maceo Parker... and helped me take the stage everytime he could!
The tiltle "I'mtheKat!"comes from the combination of "Katia" and "Cats".
A phrased word that musicians used to refer to themselves (those cats). I loved the song the very
first time i listened to it. Immediately i said to myself: "That's The Album's name!"
It is during a painting exhibition of Jean-Paul Bocaj in Avignon (Jazz a Sète posters's creator)last summer that the idea of the painting for the album's cover was born.
So J.P.Bocaj created a "comics-Rock"painting.
We knew that it would be a good poster for the Theater's Festival at Avignon, my hometown in july. All the songs of "I'mtheKat!"Are magnificent and perfumed in essential oils of Chicago
brought back by brilliant Boney Fields who arranged every title in the style of a fashion designer...