Westdeutsche Zeitung, 03.03.2004
In the Tradition of Great Songwriters
"The singer Katy Sedna has been influenced by many cultures" by Frank Becker – translated by Patricia Karbe

The setting was intimate, the atmosphere cheerful. About thirty guests had gathered for a "different" concert, to experience a rare guest in Wülfrath near Düsseldorf-Germany: the singer Katy Sedna, the third of her family’s four children. Her father worked in German foreign aid when the children were young, setting the stage for the colorful internationality in her life.
When Katy was six the family moved to Africa for six years and the children profited from the contact with another culture for the second time. The first influences came from their mother, Patricia, an American of Irish descent. After returning to Germany Katy graduated from the classical high school, before studying art for six months in Scotland and living for another six months in New York. Then came the big decision: Katy Sedna applied to the well-known "Berklee College of Music” in Boston, Massachusetts as a singer/songwriter major – and was accepted. Her admiration for singers such as Bob Dylan, Gordon Sumner alias Sting and Brazilian stars like Elis Regina prompted her to study composition, text, voice, guitar and performance, culminating in a bachelor's degree.

She sings mainly in English, inherited from her mother and an expression of her international character, with Portuguese, Spanisch and Russian also belonging to her repertoire. She works together with the record label "Logic Tide - entertainment" in Düsseldorf, which will soon be publishing her first CD.
Among her own songs is one called "I lost my mind", but Katy Sedna has both feet on the ground. She enjoys people, possesses a good deal of self-irony in her texts, as well as warmth and idealism. She says her songs arise from her love of life and reflect her feelings and experiences.
The pretty young woman’s presentation is in the tradition of the great American women song writers of the 1970s. Katy's brown eyes can sparkle with slight mockery or pure joy, being dreamy at other times. Her texts reflect her personal experiences and carry titles such as "Brightest star", "Puppet (with sad eyes, hanging from the wall)" or an adaptation of the child’s song "Ring around the rosies". Looking around the audience, one can see that she has succeeded in awaking sympathy and opening the ears and hearts of her listeners.

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