About

California native CatDraggon is a psych-rock artist reviving the grit and blues of the 60’s rock era. Classically trained in piano and opera, her music fuses neo-psychedelia, blues-rock, and retro cumbia into raw and soulful sounds. Her songs center on resilience forged through being bullied, losing friends, and abusive relationships; music written for those navigating dark, human experiences in an age of algorithms and hyper-synthetic aesthetics.

Obsessed with music from an early age, CatDraggon taught herself piano by ear at the age seven, working through Beethoven’s Für Elise before later receiving formal classical training. Her vocals emerge from a lineage of singers - her mother led music at church, while her aunties were traditional Mexican singers in LA. As a result, it’s not surprise that she spent her childhood singing LeAnn Rimes and Charlotte Church to her cat. Her operatic training shaped a voice that is powerful and unrestrained, channeling the authority of Lola Beltrán and the earth-shaking command of Mercedes Sosa: commanding and capable of turning deep sorrow into aural gold.

She gained performance chops in Los Angeles and San Francisco, while studying electrical engineering, fronting as a vocalist for 60’s rock, blues, jazz, and 90’s grunge cover bands. Additionally after living multiple times in Europe, Catdraggon immersed herself in Europe’s techno culture, producing tribal, Latin percussion–heavy techno rooted in her heritage, and hosting Tribal Techno Sessions on Data Transmission Radio.

A polymath by nature, CatDraggon is fluent in four languages and has lived in 17 cities. She has now returned fully to her north star of psychedelic rock by writing, producing, and performing as a one-woman show, channeling the autonomy of Tame Impala with a distinctly Latin and blues-driven edge.