Miss Kitten on the Keys is a one Mam BAND!
She's a frisky pianist and songwriter.
She strokes her ukulele,squeezes her accordion!
She performs at Cabaret , Vaudeville, Punk Rock, Art and Film Festivals and Burlesque Shows across the country and in France! She loves Tin Pan Alley Flapperette faves and writes her own naughty dirty cabaret ditties!
She has a panache for deconstructing Punk Rock songs into her own
genre.......she's been dubbed the Punk Rock Betty Boop by the French Press!
Bill Picture of the SF Chronicle calles Her..." A San Frencisco Punk Rock Burlesque Gem" She has toured with Cabaret New Burlesque, Devotchka with Burlesquefest, The Damned Twisted Cabaret, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2008, and the Teaseorama Road Show !Listen and purchase her songs at
www.cdbaby.com
or www.kittymusic.com
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Influences
Annette Hanshaw
Lil Armstrong
Leonard Cohen
Zev Confrey
Fats Waller
Betty Boop
Queen
Bob Smith of the Cure
Teletubbies
My Little Pony
Sex Pistols
Mae West
Shirley Temple
Marlene Dietrich
Betty Boop
Siouxsie Sioux
Diamanda Galas
Antony and the Johnsons
Bowie
Dolly Parton
Kitty Wells
Memphis Minnie
Pink Floyd
Kiss
Kate Bush
Nick Cave
Tindersticks
Led Zepplin
guilty pleasure STYX
Tom Waits
Liberace
Alice Cooper
Black Flag
Hilo Hattie
Hapa Haole Hawaiian Songs
Tiny Tim
Polkacide
ELO
The Cure
Daniel Johnston
Geroge Formby
Ukulele Ike
Grinderman
Billy Holiday
Radiohead
Vinsantos
Mi Mi le Meaux singing Foreigner into a water bottle
Angelo Baldelementi
Bertolt Brecht
France Gall
Kurt Weill
Jandek
Tiger Lillies
Brel
Iggy POP!
Leonarrd Cohen
Rusty Warren
Pee Wee Herman
Charo
Odessey and Oracle
Fellini Film Soundtracks Nina Rota
Zev Confrey
Max Raabe and his Palaster Orchestra
British Music Hall
Sounds Like
A gal hopped up on too many moonpies!
This gal plays all her own instruments on her CD's-a true one Ma'AM Band!
Pianocenntric plinkity plunks with ukulele strums and accordion omm pah pah
Naughty sassy lyrics
Baby voiced and husky kookiness
Creepy yet funny
Wounded Inner Child
Exhibitionist on crank
Creepy and CUTE
Ballsy and Blusey
Punk Rock Betty Boop
Mae West Swagger
Kinky Cute and Clever
3 Fave Female Role Models:Freddie Mercury, Alice Cooper, Liberace
eastern european brass bands
HISTORY-2001 Video of Cantakerous Lollies, SF Famous Burlesque Orchestra and vocals by Kitten on the Keys:
Kitten on the Keys is the Ginzu knife of the stage-she slices, dices and
juliennes! When not tickling the ivories, stroking the uke, or squeezing her
accordion , this multi tasking vaudeville vamp is a musical MC who announces acts w/ a putty panache that will tickle your funnybone and stir your nethers.
With four self produced CD's under her belt, this one ma'am band puts Sin in her Syncopation for a monkey spankin' good time!!
She writes her own clever ditties and loves the Tin Pan Alley era and wicked double entendres! Victorian Whimsy and Jazz Baby all rolled into one!
Known as the musical snackcake with the moist creamy center, Kitten will tantalize your tastebuds with her spunky mischievous humor.
She made her cabaret and burlesque career playing piano, singing, and shaking her ruffles in
San Francisco's FIRST neo-Burlesque Revue-The Cantankerous Lollies and San Francisco's Famous Burlesque Orchestra.
Her career took off and she became a sought after multi faceted solo artist.
She's toured the US and Canada with Burlesquefest, Co-MC'd the World Famous Burlesque Legends's Night for Exotic World in Helendale and Las Vegas,
MC'd several Teaseorama showcases including Hollywood, Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco and will be on the Teaseorama Road show 2008.
She's performed in the UK at the Candy box Burlesque both with her solo show and with their amazing orchestra.
She won a Golden Pastie Award at the NY Burlesque Festival for being "the biggest Tease", won Best Costume at Exotic World 2005, The SF Weekly Music Award in
2003 in the Beyond Category, and her former 1920's band won a Bay Guardian Best of The Bay Award for their uplifting Depression Era tunes.
The colorful Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence have made her a Saint-Saint Tickle Me Ivories!
Kitten has been featured in numerous national and international publications, The SF Chronicle, The Spectator,
a 12 page article in SHIMMY magazine!, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Village Voice, Belgian Elle , Style Monte Carlo,and several books
including The New Burlesque, The New Bump and Grind and the gorgeous Parisian Legends du Striptease by Remy Fuentes. She will be featured in the upcoming
Women of Underground Music and Art 2009. She is also featured on a deck of Parisian Strip Tease playing cards with the cast of Cabaret New Burlesque.
She was also picked to be one of the few women for the Club Card Series of who's who in San Francisco for Gay Pride.
She's appeared on Q TV's the Queer Edge , Bravos's Top Chef, MTVs My Super Sweet 16, HBO's Reel Sex, CANAL + in Paris,
was a bra and boob model for the National Geographic Channel's Secret History of the Bra, sang and played piano on
REI in Italy 2008 with the show The New Burlesque w/ Italian TV STAR Marisa Laurito,
and dazzled audiences in Europe with the show Cabaret New Burlesque 4 times in France and once in Italy as the musical mistress of ceremonies and
pianist to other musical guests in the cast.
She toured with the legendary punk rock band THE DAMNED throughout England and Ireland Winter 2007 with the Twisted Cabaret. She just finished performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where her naughty cabaret act caught the eye of many.
The Teaseorama Road SHOW with Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity is next on her agenda
for the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco!
Kitten on the Keys loves to give back to the community. She is always there to donate her talents to causes she believes in including
breast cancer, AIDS, and anything with children and animals. She has performed several times at the fabulous Teatro Zinzanni Space for various fundraisers
including a Bread and Roses Benefit featuring Huey Lewis-Kitten got to lay on the beautiful piano and sing with him!
Kitten has a vintage exuberance that is hard to resist. Her eyebrow raising antics have them rolling in the ailes where ever she goes.
The French appropriately called her "The Punk Rock Betty Book'. Her cute, kinky and clever
original cabaret tunes revive the mirth and merriment of the good ol days with a deliriously decadent twist.
She's sassy or classy take your pick.
Tickle Kitten's Ivories at
www.kittymusic.com
DOES THIS PIANO MAKE MY ASS LOOK BIG?
A one woman avante musical WORLD PREMIERE Late March Early April
Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
1519 Mission at 11th
www.suzanneramsey.net/doesthispiano
2/15/09 Benefit Starring Satan's Angel 6:30-9:30
AMAZING SILENT AUCTION ITEMS
Biu Memorabila from Satan's Angel!
Meowalicious Treats await!
Sassy and classy.
Hear her playing on Vinsantos new CD. myspace.com/vinsantos. Produced by Bauhaus legend Mr David J. She also played for David J live in SF and LA. Kitten was recently Sainted by The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as ST Tickle ME Ivories!
Kitten spent the Summer of 07 inSee her on a deck of cards....www.pokerburlesque.com
Come play in the Litterbox of FUN!
www.kittymusic.com
CD COVER ART LOGOS BY JOSHUA ELLINGSON Photo by Kingmond Young
Purchase her CD's on CD Baby-
Some are sold out try emailing her kittykeys@aol.com
to see if some copies MAY be available!
