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Kat Calvosa

Kat Calvosa writes songs that bring a refreshing sense of true innovation to the intertwining worlds of jazz and popular music.

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Kat Calvosa writes songs that bring a refreshing sense of true innovation to the intertwining worlds of jazz and popular music. With honesty and insight, she writes and interprets lyrics with a wisdom beyond her years, creating beautiful, haunting, and charming stories that move past any limitation of the idioms.

Currently finishing a new album of standards and covers with a wonderful trio of some of New York’s finest musicians, she is poised and ready to discover new ground and take the next step on what has already been a fulfilling journey. The new, as yet untitled, album is full of surprises and inventive arrangements of songs from such diverse influences as Rogers and Hammerstein, and the Foo Fighters, and features Sam Minaie on bass, Perry Smith on guitar and Ross Pederson on drums.

Vocalist Kat Calvosa grew up in rural Wisconsin, where she was surrounded by music, which lead her to pursue a music degree at Lawrence University. While there she began studying with noted Jazz composer, arranger, and trumpeter, Ken Schaphorst, which lead Kat to fall in love with Jazz. Wanting to gain a deeper experience, she moved to New York City in the Fall of 1996 to attend the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where she began working with such noted musicians as Peter Eldridge, Jane Monheit, Chris Bergson, and Travis Sullivan and received a Bachelors of Music in Jazz/Commercial music. Kat continued to hone her craft in New York until 2005 when she moved to Miami to pursue and ultimately achieve, a Masters Degree in Jazz Pedagogy from the University of Miami, FL. While there, she had the opportunity to work with such noted artists as John Secada, Raul Midon, and Johnny Rodgers.

Kat’s 2009 self-produced CD, Chrysalis, contains all original material she wrote and arranged. It has been hailed by online critics as “a work of great subtlety and nuance,” for Kat’s ability to effortlessly join the worlds of singer-songwriter and jazz. The album holds many of these gems including: Rufus, about her large and sometimes not so in-charge bed, See It Rise, linking the building of a house to leaving and moving on from a difficult space, and A Rose, a striking and beautiful love song.

This beautiful singer has performed at venues such as Smalls, Cornelia Street Café, The Bitter End, and the Hot Jazz for Cool Nights Festival; and with such noted musicians as Carlo DeRosa, Nir Felder, Ann Philips, Bob Kindred, Andrew Fisher, Jordan Perlson, and Peter Eldridge. With several tours on the horizon, new songs to be arranged and written, and a new album already in post production, Kat Calvosa is on the road to higher ground and with what lies behind her, there is no doubt that only more wonderful collaborations, music, and opportunities lie ahead.