Biography
Kat startet singing by the age of 4 years. Some years later she bagan to dance in an Jazz-ballett class and got a lot of little gigs. Over 8 years she was a part of the group till she changed the classes to take part in school musicals. “Ritter Rost” and “Ritter Rost und die Hexe Versteckse” became her first Musical experiences. Next to school and the Musical work, she went into a new dance lesson of modern dance-jazz and choreographies. Actually music was leading her and she started writing a tons of lyrics. Kat became one of the best dancer in the classes. Joined workshops from professional dance teachers like Dee! (Detlef Dee Soost) and a lot more. But she started missing to create own music so much, that she got back to her main passion. A lot of cover versions were following. She began writing her own melodies and music. Recorded in her little Homestudio. But time went well and so she got it bigger and better.
Now over 300 lyrics are her own and a lot of finished and mixed Songs. She created 3 LP´s under the artistname Kat Madleine. “Just me” 2001-2002 , “The First”- 20032004 and “A declaration of Love” 2005-2006. 2009 she recorded a new LP with Jörg Fiedler as Ghost of Delight. The LP was called “When Karma meets Mercy” and was finished in december 2009.
Also Kat was working with a lot of good and professional vocal coaches. Just like the Vocal Family from Stuttgart.
But not only the pure music was interesting for Kat. She was visiting a lot of Seminares of the popular School “Popakademie” in Mannheim, which was created by one of the most famous german singers “Xavier Naidoo”, for learning how the music industry is working. In 2002 Kat and a friend founded a Music Magazin which was called “Konzert-Welt”, later their ways start to get seperated and she founded her own Magazin called “Musicacts-live”. The work was a lot of fun and it was the best possibility to learn how the press is reacting to things which artist do. Everything she learned was a skin close experience. She got in contact with a lot of great musicans like the Backstreet Boys, Usher, Natural, The Rasmus and so many more. For writing articles about the concerts and doing some really cool interviews! Also she joined one of the official german Press clubs (JP|RP, JP|HH).
But that still wasn´t enough! She loved to be creative and began during all the years to design Homepages. Following Pages were designed by her: Her official Homepage (www.Kat-Madleine.de) Her Magazin (www.Musicacts-live.de) A Homepage for a fotostudio, some fan sites, a Label site, Interior HP…..
By the way, Kat loves to take photos. Also pictures of other artists were done by her. And she is working as a model for different companies.
In 2005, Kat was working on a self written musical of Ms. Lisa Möndel. It was called “Mein Freund der Nazi”. A very criticism part about the history, the present of the community. For this musical she was working on the music and the choreographies. Kat was also a member of the Jury when the castings for the musical started.
But whats life.. if you can´t prove it? So she joined some Castings like “DSDS”, “Popstars” and “Tarzan und Jane”. Never with an thought for winning- Only for woking on herself and get the fedback for better working. To see how the reaction will be and for self analysis. “It´s just for fun and for fighting agains my own fears!” it´s what she said. A good idea and method!
In 2006 she took part in promoting Benjamin Bledsoe on his Promo Tour through germany. Getting him back again in the german business was the goal. They were able with a lot of other helpers to get him back for a bit. Also in 2007 she supported artists and bands and so she was one of the heads for the Fanclub of the international known band Lexington Bridge. Working in Department South.
Some other projects got into life. The band “Farytale” was founded. -Kat as a member next to Sarah and Lin. And produced by Mr. Adrian Richling from Richling Records (Stuttgart). After the project was done.. the next followed. But Kat got always the time to work on her own thing through it all. She recorded some cool new songs with Mr. Matt Eightman from the Label “Last Forever Music” (Hannover/Cologne). As already mentioned.. there were a lot of projects going on. As well as the girlband “Je suis tres folle!” . As members Kat and a very sweet french girl called Melodia. They also got some gings. For expample on the big festival “Happy Family” in Mannheim. Both are still working good together and creating a lot of fantastic lovesongs and dance numbers! In August 2008 she joined the famous Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama and started the education as Entertainer.
June 2009 she released a Song called “Time to go” which was created by her and the ForMel Dj Team with inspiration of her good friend Matt! The single hit the TOP 12 in Downloadcharts! Also she was taking part in a Videoclip Shooting from the band “Schein feat. Roberto Blanco”- Spiel die Funkmusik by Philip Fricker.
During and after the Stage School she was working as a model and visited the Musical School Stage Art for a Workshop after the education was done. In 2010/11 she moved from Hamburg to Heilbronn. She became a part of the hungary choir in the new area. In spring 2012 she started working at MAX Events as organizer for Shows and Dair, she also started studies at the University Heidelberg in musicology and history which will be finished June 2015. In 2013 some new modeljobs were on her list and she became a freelance journalist at the daily newspaper Heilbronner Stimme.
2015 she had a small role in the Movie “Haus ohne Dach” produced by Soleen Yusef.
After a second education break, she started being a singer for private parties and giving workshops in marketing and music industry.