Featured Artist:
Kat Dyson, Guitar
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Guitarist-vocalist, composer and artist
Kat recently relocated to Los Angeles from Minneapolis
where she was a featured guitarist/vocalist with The Artist
Formerly Known as Prince as a member of the New Power
Generation. Nashville and Los Angeles completing her solo
underground EP, Colour Kommentary.
Kat as a member of NPG performed alongside
such artists as Tony Rich, D'angelo, BB King, Chaka Khan,
Larry Graham and GCS, Carlos Santana, Sheila E, Stevie
Wonder, Rufus Thomas and Doug E. Fresh.
Along the way, Kat has performed with
renowned artists including Debra Cox, Ivan Neville, Bruce
Willis, Donny Osmond, George Clinton and the P-Funk All
Stars, Tchukon, The Winans, Big Mamma Thornton, Smokey
Robinson, UB40, Ben E. King, Bo Diddley, Odetta, Celine
Dion, Roch Voisine and Etta James. Kat is also a soloist
for the world renowned Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir
and is featured on many of their albums.
Kat has toured the world as featured
guitarist and vocalist with Warner Brothers recording
artist Colin James. It was Colin James whose Bad Habits
world tour gave Kat the opportunity to play alongside
such great artists as Mavis Staples, Jimmy Vaughn, B.B.
King, French rock idol Johnny Hallyday and perform at
the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal.
Kat's studio work includes sessions for
such artists as Prince, Ziggy Marley, Sheila E., Dave
Stewart (Eurythmics), Jeff Healey and Gowan, as well as
working with Paul Shaffer and members of the CBS Orchestra,
Jamaican producers Sly and Robbie, Cat Cooer of Third
World, Epic recording artist Patra, Odetta and Bernie
Worrell (Parliament Funkadelic).
Before joining forces with the Artist,
Ms. Dyson was a contributing guitarist and vocalist on
the multi-platinum seller Cyndi Lauper's greatest hits
album. She’s made numerous television appearances
on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David
Letterman, Top of the Pops and The American Music Awards,
as well as participating on Ms. Lauper's critically acclaimed
Sisters of Avalon CD.
She also just completed 6 months on the
road with Ms.Lauper, opening for Cher on the Living Proof
Tour 2002-2003
Her playing and compositions can be heard
in film and television. As a featured credited musician,
her soulful guitar can be heard in the filmscore for DANCING
AT THE BLUE IGUANA, starring Darryl Hannah. She also composed
and performed several pieces of music for HBO's acclaimed
series AMERICA UNDERCOVER. Since 1998, Ms.Dyson has also
been a fixture in such talk-show house bands as The Wayne
Brady Show, The Donny & Marie Show and The Magic Hour,
with Sheila E.
At present, in between recording, producing
and composing for her group, film, television and touring
with various other artists; she is a part of a new formation
called Sheila E. and the 5th Element. This band has been
touring here and abroad to rave.
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