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Cynthia Catania was born in Northern NJ to first-generation, American-born Sicilians. Her dad played the mandolin at family parties and listened to jazz at home. One of her brothers became a successful session guitarist in NY and toured the world with Hall & Oates. After cutting her teeth in the NY music scene, Cynthia left home for sultry Los Angeles - hot on the heels of the Northridge earthquake. During the early 2000s, she formed Saucy Monky with Dublin native Annmarie Cullen. The quartet went on to tour Ireland and Europe many times over and shared on festival stages with music heroes like The Cure, PJ Harvey, Wilco, Metric, and more! Embraced by the Irish press, Saucy Monky became media darlings, often finding themselves on the pages of Hot Press Magazine, a prestigious music and culture publication akin to Rolling Stone Magazine in the US.
The LA Times said this about the band- “Saucy Monky shares a lot of the qualities of pop’s classic female-fronted bands — Irrepressible melodicism and smart lyrics...”
After Cynthia’s successful run with Saucy Monky (which included film and TV placement success, a Wendy’s jingle and a theme song on ABC daytime), Cynthia joined the Los Angeles power trio The Secret Things. With a pulse on the European market - she and the band were signed to Sweden's Loud Kult Records. The trio released a set of singles and the EP Shock Diary. ‘Keeper’ the #metoo inspired single was released via Loud Kult (distribution by The Orchard) in 2018. The band made three provocative music videos directed by actress-filmmaker-writer Sue Ann Pien. TST's cover of PJ Harvey's ‘Down By The Water’ was Pien's re-vision of PJ's filicide theme. The partnership kickstarted a series of benefits to support the transgender community in Los Angeles.
In 2018-2019, Cynthia was invited by editor Niall Stokes to write for Hot Press Magazine. Her sex-column stories ran for the better part of a year. She continues to write as a freelance columnist and blogger. Read some of her stories here: Hot Press Columns; Huffington Post Blogs; Medium Blogs.
The summer of 2019 had Catania kickstart a long-awaited second chapter of her solo career. Her kick-off single ‘Phones’ was released worldwide July, 2019, paired with another captivating video directed by Sue Ann Pien. Her desire to perform abroad brought Cynthia back to Irish shores for a string of shows and radio performances including the popular Arena (on Radio1/RTE network). She continued the Irish run with ex-bandmates and international singer-songwriters Annmarie Cullen, Naimee Coleman, Sylvie Lewis, and drummer Adam Marcello (Katy Perry, American Idol) for select shows with the Songwriters On Tap collective.
‘Sidelines’ Cynthia’s pre-COVID single of 2020 was released just before the music business and world at large shut down. All Spring 2020 concert dates, Irish tours, and support slots with The Young Dubliners, Hothouse Flowers & Tracy Bonham were postponed due to the coronavirus.
Six months into this new normal she dropped the video and single ‘Remember,’ a gorgeous tribute to the universal theme of misspent youth, and a nod to her glory days with the band - Saucy Monky.
The forthcoming music video for ‘Suitcase’ was filmed in the Sequoia Nat'l Forest by visionary filmmakers Sue Ann Pien, Michael Khachadoorian and skeleton crew including Catania, Drew Tolley and Kathleen Shifs. The single drops worldwide on December 8th; the video premiere is now LIVE on the Hot Press YouTube channel!
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