| Andy Cato | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Andrew Derek Cocup |
| Also known as | Caia, Journey Man DJ, Big C ,System The ,Seventh Sense |
| Born | 1973 (age 38–39) |
| Origin | Barnsley, Yorkshire, England |
| Genres | Electronic music |
| Instruments | Trombone, piano, bass guitar |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Labels | Columbia UK |
| Associated acts | Groove Armada, Caia, Weekend Players, System The, Seventh Sense, |
| Website | http://andycatomusic.com/ |
Andy Cato is one half of the electronic dance band, Groove Armada, the other half being Tom Findlay. He is also involved with Rachel Foster in Weekend Players, another electronic dance group.
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Cato grew up in a village near Barnsley and played the trombone in a colliery brass band, as well as the Doncaster Youth Jazz Orchestra and won the Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award in 1996.
Cato was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, an independent school for boys in Wakefield, followed by the University of Oxford (Merton College), where he studied history.
After the University of Oxford, he moved to London, where he began acting as a disc jockey at nightclubs and composing music. He set up the label Skinny Malinky. He met Tom Findlay in 1994 in Cambridge, through a common friend who was his girlfriend (and now his wife), Jo, whom he met at Oxford. In London they had a dance night called Captain Sensual at the Helm of the Groove Armada.