Katie Herzig

Biography

Soon after finishing her acclaimed 2008 album Apple Tree, Colorado-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Katie Herzig received a fateful phone call. “I sat down to paint one day— I hadn’t painted in years—then I got a call asking me to write a song for the Sex and the City movie,” she says. “So I put down my paintbrush and haven’t painted since!” What she did instead, as one assignment led to another, was write music for numerous films and television shows, and in the process, find a surprising and exciting direction for her new album, The Waking Sleep, her first release on Downtown/Mercer Street Records. But there was also no doubt that at some point, this accomplished artist would return to the distinctive, heartfelt material that made her name. Katie Herzig is currently touring the states promoting her fourth album, The Waking Sleep.