Kat Goldman

Kat Goldman is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario.

Biography Kat Goldman grew up in Toronto, Ontario. She began her career as a singer-songwriter while attending university in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1990s. She began frequenting Cambridge coffeehouses and busking in Harvard Square.

She returned to Toronto in 1996 and began playing local venues. Gavin Brown (producer for Sarah Harmer and Billy Talent) took an interest in her music and in 2000 they collaborated on the album, The Great Disappearing Act. Her website describes this as the "break-out achievement in her career," noting that after this she was opening for artists like Sarah Slean, Martin Sexton, the Waifs, Regina Spektor, the Strawbs, Dar Williams, Jonatha Brooke, and Eric Andersen.

It was also around this time that she was picked up by the New York City based management firm for Williams and Shawn Colvin. Goldman began doing shows at venues like The Bottom Line, the Bitter End, and the Living Room.

In 2004 Goldman was planning to move to New York when she was severely injured in a freak accident (a car crashed into the storefront of a bakery she was visiting). She spent the next two years in recovery. One reviewer called the album "a record to play at night when you’re feeling a bit introspective and maybe even lonely." Another describes the album as "consistently life-affirming until the end and more importantly, without betraying a hint of sentimentality." Goldman's performance of the title track, "Sing Your Song" once again earned her an honorable mention at the International Songwriting Competition for 2007.

Later in 2007, several songs from Goldman's earlier album, including "Everyone's Getting Married", were included on the soundtrack to the Lifetime Television film I Me Wed. As of 2008 her upcoming gigs include performances at places such as Club Passim in Cambridge, a visit to NPR's the World Cafe in Philadelphia, and a couple of dates opening for Colin Hay (formerly of Men at Work).

Goldman adapted her song Annabel to serve as the theme of Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will.

Discography The Great Disappearing Act (2000) Sing Your Song (2007) Gypsy Girl (2012)