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KITTO BIOGRAPHY - Solo female rock-artist/songwriter from Australia.
Having toured 33 countries, KITTO is the epitome of indie, a road warrior who never gives up, an emotive guitarist and a helluva singer wrenching haunting lyrics from a deep communal well. Defiantly barefoot on stage, she's got the scorching commitment of a firestorm, with or without a backing band. She rocks! The Australian born, Swedish-based vocalist and songwriter's performances are littered with stories from Tasmanian hotel rooms, Hollywood..s underbelly, The Global Cafes and beyond!
2003 she supported the eclectic Jacque Higgins in Theatre De Verdun at the Nice Jazz Festival in France, shared the bill with Megadeath at the Midtfyn Festival in Denmark and, in September, became the first Aussie to rock the boards in the ex-Soviet country of Belarus. "It was an amazing eye opener," she said. "I got a glimpse into a country which is still battling the throes of post-communism, still in its transitional stages. Most folks have hardly got a dollar on them as wages are so low, so consequently the show was full of young journalists who got in for free, vying for a story and a chance to express their views and pitch questions to someone from the west."
Weeks later, she turned on a series of hot shows at a base at the North Pole. "It's everyone's greatest dream to actually go somewhere as extreme as the North Pole," she says. "For me it was about as Everest or as Dick Smith as I'll ever get." Kitto and her rock trio flew North 72 degrees to Svalbard for 3 gigs before an enthusiastic crowd of 1000.
In late 2004 Scandinavia, Kitto featured in a Swedish TV Gala ABBA The Tribute over 3 nites performing alongside Dionne Warwick & Eskobar, Shortly after Kitto made a pilgrimage to South Africa to perform on Robben Island, the home for 17 years to former political prisoner Nelson Mandela.
Last fall 2005, she commenced working on a new album with producer Michael Vail Blum (Suicidal Tendencies, New Radicals) recorded in Los Angeles, USA.
In Aug/Sept 2006 Kitto recently completed a UK/SWE tour fronting (Janis Joplins original band) Big Brother & The Holding Company.
Meanwhile, her independent spirit has taken her around the globe on an 'extended working holiday' that's seen her strutting her stuff in 33 countries.
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