For the fictional character Katy Carr in Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did, see What Katy Did
| Katy Carr | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Musician, Songwriter, |
| Instruments | Vocals, Ukulele, Piano |
| Years active | 2001-present |
| Labels | Deluce Recordings |
| Associated acts | Great British Barber Shop Boys, Patrick Wolf, Mediaeval Baebes |
| Website | KatyCarr.com |
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Katy Carr is a British musician and singer-songwriter. She has released three albums - Screwing Lies (2001), Passion Play (2003) and Coquette (2009).
Her single Kommander's Car (taken from the album Coquette) was inspired by the last 80 metres of a successful escape made by Kazimierz Piechowski from Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1942.[1][2] Katy visited the Polish war veteran in August 2009 and produced a 25 minute documentary, Kazik and the Kommander's Car, directed by British film maker Hannah Lovell.[3]
In March 2011 Katy and her group, Katy Carr and the Aviators, embarked on tour funded by Arts Council England entitled The Escapologist Tour, with Kazimierz Piechowski present for the first two London performances at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and Baden Powell House.[4] [5]
Piechowski since remarked to the BBC that Kommander's Car is "like a gate closing on the drama of my life - she (Carr) has actually put the drama so precisely in the song. I always thought that this the most dramatic moment of my life would be somehow not heard. Now I can close that chapter."[6]
In November 2011, Katy was nominated for the London Music Award 2012 alongside Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Arctic Monkeys, The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Metromony, Ed Sheeran, Jim Jones Review, The Unthanks and Laura Marling.[7]
Her fourth album, Paszport, will be released on 20th June 2012 to mark the anniversary of Kazimierz Piechowski's 70th Anniversary of his escape from Auschwitz. The album is inspired by the Polish experience in World War Two[8] and stories gathered from Piechowski about his time in the Polish Partisans 1942 -1945[9].
In November 2011, Katy was nominated for the London Music Award 2012.[10]