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About Katy

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Katy Pfaffl grew up as a classical musician. She began studying Suzuki violin at age 6 and piano at age 12. By the age of 13, Katy was competing as a serious classical pianist throughout the Midwest. When college came around, she had taken a strong interest in composition for orchestra and choir, in addition to becoming a Downbeat Award winning jazz vocalist.

Katy attended the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music for two years then moved to New York. She took her first steps by working all over Manhattan as a singer/pianist/violinist performing regularly with the band SWIM, all the while earning a reputation locally as the therapeutic voice teacher and vocal coach. (She currently teaches.) Striving for musical freedom and searching for her own voice, she taught herself the guitar which began her journey into the local singer/songwriter scene.

Her musical growth brought her closest friends and collaborators, bassist Justin Wallace (from ulu), together with her oldest friend, drummer Sean Dixon. Immediately a strong union of brilliant musicianship and friendship emerged among the group, and upon adding percussionist Sebastian Guerrero and backing vocalist Tiffany May, the Katy Pfaffl Band was completed. She recorded both her first (Katy Pfaffl) and second (As She Stands) records in New York City.

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