Biography:

Kat O1O (that’s oh-one-oh), known not only as part of the live-band hip-hop group Crown City Rockers, but also pretty much the go-to keyboardist in the thriving Bay Area hip-hop scene (she’s appeared on records by Lyrics Born, Headnodic, Zion I, People Under The Stairs, J. Boogie, Raashan Ahmad, and Joyo Velarde, to name a few), didn’t actually find the Fender Rhodes, her instrument of choice, until relatively late in her musical life.

The East Bay Express proclaimed her the “Most Mind-Blowingest Musician” of 2005, declaring that she “…passes through walls of genre and style like they were open windows. As the official keyboard sorcerer for live-band hip-hop sensation Crown City Rockers, she floats over the rhythm section's vicious funk with Rhodes and Moog work that can float, strut, snarl, pounce, and shriek in equal measure, delivering the melody without stomping on the groove's toes.”