Katy Rose

Katy Rose is a singer-songwriter living in Paris. Originally from LA, she signed with V2 Records at thirteen, and her music has featured on the soundtracks of Grey’s Anatomy, One Tree Hill, Dawson’s Creek, Thirteen, Agent Cody Banks, and Mean Girls, where her bestselling record ‘Overdrive’ was the title track.

After the world tour for her first album, Because I Can, where she toured with The Cardigans, Liz Phair and The Calling, ‘Overdrive’ hit the Top 10 lists in France, Switzerland and South Africa, staying at #1 in Japan for several weeks. The single made the Top 20 Video Countdown on both MTV and TRL, where Katy made numerous appearances, and Katy went on to play shows with Avril Lavigne, N.E.R.D. and Kanye West.

Since Because I Can Katy has worked as a songwriter in LA, Stockholm, Paris, Nashville, ATL, NY, and London. Her songs have recently featured in the SIMS 3 video game series by Electronic Arts, and her most recent collaborations have been with 2Cellos. She is currently playing shows with her band in Paris, and this year (2020) is releasing her long-awaited second album, I’M YOUR MAN.

I’M YOUR MAN

Katy’s new album I’M YOUR MAN (2020) is being released as a series of singles. Two songs have been released so far, whilst the rest are scheduled for release this year; ‘Somebody Got There First’ was released as an Amazon Music exclusive and the second single ‘Bleed’ is out on all platforms now. Over the last half-decade, Katy Rose traveled across the world to bring her latest batch of music to life, an album that’s deeply introspective yet outwardly searching, unabashedly personal yet attuned to a universal experience of love and pain and transformation.

Having spent her adolescence immersing herself in music with a serious commitment to poetry—the back catalogues of Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, and Kate Bush to name a few—Katy has worked to mesh those raw, uncompromisingly honest sounds of the 60s & 70s with hyper-modern electronic production in her newest album I’M YOUR MAN. “I wanted to give people something like the records that I’ve listened to top to bottom whenever I needed to pick myself up or feel less alone.” As the hard-hitting title (a nod to Leonard Cohen) suggests, some of that might be achieved by fire! That swaggering title track, for instance, is “The song inspired by all the rambunctious and powerful women in my life.”

 “All of these songs came from a huge period of growth that I went through in my 20s. They’re about relationships I’ve had and some self-destructive times—about trying to get through all of that. In a way I had to break myself down and then build myself back up again, and along the way I started really to figure out who I am as a person and an artist.”

⁠—I’M YOUR MAN (2020)

KATY’S STORY

As the daughter of two touring musicians, Rose is no stranger to the vagabond lifestyle that she embraced in the making of I’m Your Man. A keyboardist who now plays for Elton John, her father (Kim Bullard) began dating her mother (Cecelia Bullard, a backup vocalist) while the two were performing with French singer/songwriter Véronique Sanson in the ’70s. Rose often joined her parents on the road as a kid, including a tour with the Grateful Dead, and eventually started taking piano and guitar lessons.

Over the last half-decade, Katy Rose traveled across the country and all over Europe to bring her latest batch of music to life. Along with working in places as far-flung as Nashville and Holland, the L.A.-born singer/songwriter recorded in a centuries-old church in the seaside Swedish village of Kristianopel in the dead of Scandinavian winter. To shoot the video for ‘Don’t Give Up On Me’ (Winter 2020), she took to the French countryside and filmed in a hunting-lodge-turned-ashram built on top of the ruins of a 15th century castle. With her wandering also including time in London and Paris and Stockholm, Rose ended up creating an album that’s deeply introspective yet outwardly searching, unabashedly personal yet attuned to a universal experience of love and pain and transformation.