User:Lalatinadiva

During her early childhood, she grew close to her Latin American heritage, and often listened to Salsa and Cumbia music. Every day, Cathy would lock herself in her room or take her boom box to the basement and practice song and dance for hours. She wrote her first song at the age of three. At the age of 12, Catherine and her father moved to Ozone Park, a city within the borough of Queens. It was here that she began performing in talent shows and singing quietly at home, as well as discovering some of her favorite artists, Ella Fitzgerald and Babyface. This was when she began to gain a deeper connection to R&B and soul music. In 1998, Catherine's father took her to a studio to record some of her favorite songs at the time. Among these songs were Mariah Carey's Hero and Selena Quintanilla's Amor Prohibido.