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Kate Blossom is a singer-songwriter.

Kate Blossom grew up in the Blue Dandenongs, the hills on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. She lived with her grandparents in the forest. Kate listened to her grandmother, a pianist, play her repertoire daily. Kate fell in love with music, and at the keys of that piano she soon began making up little melodies, tiny songs, playful stories and simple poems, under her grandmother’s tutelage.

When Kate discovered woodwind instruments at school, she was intrigued and played as many different types she could. When she heard Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Jim Morrison and Billie Holiday, she knew she would be a musician. She also discovered modern writers like Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Joseph Heller and Virginia Wolf, and fell in love with words.

Kate went on to study at Pop and Jazz at Box Hill Institute (Diploma Music Performance) and Improvisation at the Victorian College of the Arts – Melbourne University (Bachelor Music Performance).

During these studies Kate began playing in folk, pop, electro and jazz bands using her fledgling collection of beloved vintage synthesizers, obscure wind instruments and her voice. Around this time she also started listening to great artists like Cat Power, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Nick Drake and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. This inspired her to focus on lyrics and song writing.

Kate then decided to move to Europe. Once settled she loved the fresh inspiration and the new ideas she encountered as she did concerts playing her vintage synthesizers and singing with friends.

In 2011 Kate Blossom recorded an EP with producer Marc Molas Carol at El Tostadero studios in Barcelona. The 6 song EP, for release in 2012 on Daruma Records, is called Hyper Purity.

Kate now lives in London. She performs live playing piano, or her 2 favourite analogue keyboards – a Roland EP-09 and Casio Casiotone MT-40 – and finger and wrist bells, as she sings her songs.