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Cathy Battistessa

Cathy Battistessa

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Cathy Battistessa "A unique artist with a powerful spirit and distinctive vocal style". ............................................................ ............................................................ ... If you own a lounge/Chill Out compilation or two the chances are Cathy Battistessa will feature in there somewhere! Cathy has been hailed as “The voice of the Café Del Mar” after having written the Legendary Chill-Out Hit “More Than Ever People” and other Café del Mar classics “Oh Home” and “Riva”. Since then she has gone on to collaborate with Afterlife co-writing with Steve Miller, "Shine", "Go Easy", "Let it Go" and the title track of the last Afterlife Album “Speck Of Gold” all songs are featured on various compilations, Buddha lounge, Cafe Mambo etc. More collabs to check out - Rob da Bank (Radio One) / Lazyboy, track “Don’t fret George”, Paco Fernandez "Oh HOme", Kirk de Giorgio - ASOne "Shed Dem", Laid/ Zoo Brazil " Presence" , Stephane Pompougnac (Hotel Costes), Chris Coco (Radio One) and “Still”. Cathy B also co-wrote the successful Top Ten Hit “A Little Bit Of Luck” with DJ Luck & MC Neat holding its position in the Top Ten Uk Charts for 8 weeks!! ............................................................ .................................................... Cathy has spent the last 2 years crafting her debut solo Album. Writing with inspirational musicians/producers & artists across the globe. This quest has taken her as far afield as Africa, S. America and Iceland where she spent time working with Bjorks' programmer / producer Valgier Siggurson - Check out "Lament" here or visit www.cathybattistessa.com. ............................................................ ..........................................................Si nce September 2006 she has spent over a year recording her 10,000 km journey across S.America, performing / writing /filming / photographing / sketching and painting her way en-route from Brazil across the Andes into Northern Chile, down to the Mapuchji Indian territory of southern Chile, across the southern Andes into Argentina, up into Paraguay and back to Brazil. So now having experienced working with so many South American musicians CB is determined to infuse her solo album with this new found inspiration. ............................................................ ........................................................ Check out her collaboration with “Slow.Pulse”. She has written/co-written 6 songs for they’re Debut Album due out end 2007! You can listen to some of the Slow.Pulse & Cathy Battistessa tracks in play list www.cathybattistessa.com “Elysian”, “Da Riva”, “Can’t Love”, “Complicated Art”, “Times They Are A’Changin”, and … “All or Nothing”.Feel it for yourself, she has a profoundly emotive genuine soul-searching lyrical and melodic flow – her creativity is all about a unique stream of consciousness and ultimately great songs being moulded into rhythms and grooves, to be appreciated by all those that hear a melody and want to ride it forever ….. ............................................................ ....................................................www.cath ybattistessa.com

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Member Since: 2/15/2006
Band Website: cathybattistessa.com
Band Members: All Lyrics & Vocals by Cathy Battistessa. Cathy has been fortunate to collaborate with many different musicians from across the Globe, including the Infamous Guitarist/ Composer/Producer "Paco Fernandez" /// Guitars / Bass - Israel Bernardes /// Percussion / drums - Tony Goncalves /// Bernie Weimer /// Guitars - Alex Kennart /// Rupert Mann - Drums /// Paul Ross - Piano / Keys
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Posted by Cathy Battistessa on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:13:00 PST