Kaki King

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Kaki King (born Katherine Elizabeth King, August 24, 1979) is an American guitarist and composer.

The queen is known for her perceptive and jazz-tinged melodies, vivacious live performances, the use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, as well as her diverse range of genres. Rolling Stone unveiled a list of "The New Guitar Gods" in February 2006, on which King was the sole woman and youngest artist (beating Derek Trucks in age by two months as the youngest on the list).

Six LP and two EP albums, as well as several television and film soundtracks, have appeared in her career.

She appeared on the soundtrack to Sean Penn's Into the Wild, alongside Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook contributing music for the film, for which the trio received nominations for the Best Original Score of the Golden Globe Awards.

Childhood and early life

The King was born the first of two children. When she was still a young child, her father noticed her natural musical talent and boosted her interest in music. She was introduced to the guitar at the age of four and played for many years, but the drums came later as she became her primary instruments as an adolescent.

King performed in bands in high school with classmate Morgan Jahnig, who would later become the bassist of the Old Crow Medicine Show, and was convinced that her break in music would come from drumming. The two classmates met in Atlanta in 1998 after graduating from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta. King picked up the guitar again as a child and revisited the finger-style techniques that piqued her interest. Bill Rayner, a guitar professor at New York University, studied with her while studying at NYU. King performed a few times and busked in the New York City Subway, and from there.

Personal life

The king is a lesbian. In October 2012, King Jessica Templin married Jessica Templin, giving Templin's name. The pair honeymooned in Australia, where the King appeared at the Peats Ridge Festival. The couple have two children.

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Career

King began recording her debut album, Everybody Loves You, after signing with Velour Records in 2002. She used fingerstyle "fanning" in addition to flamenco style percussion and fret tapping, as well as using double open tunings, viola tunings, and traditional Russian guitar (7 strings). Everybody Loves You was published with positive reviews and feedback on King's ability as a guitarist as a result of her age on April 22, 2003. Although her later music incorporates more of a band model, Everybody Loves You is King's only acoustic guitar album, with the exception of light singing on the Government's hidden bonus track. King embarked on her first major promotional tour in North America to promote the album.

Sony Records offered King a contract with Epic records' Red Ink label after she appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. King moved back to the studio to work on her sophomore project, Legs to Make Us Longer. "Doing the Wrong Thing" is King's first inclusion of Lap steel guitar in "My Insect Life" and her first incorporation of Lap steel guitar. Legs to Make Us Longer, David Torn's new product, was announced on Epic's Red Ink Imprint on October 5, 2004, getting raves. King performed as an opening act for Eric Johnson on a leg of his 2005 tour as well as completing her own national and international tour.

King departed from her previous musical career at the end of her legato Make Us Longer tour in 2005, citing a desire to avoid being pigeonholed as a solo instrumentalist. She has amicably dropped out of major label Sony/Epic and returned to her original label, Velour, to begin working on her third album...Until We Felt Red. The album, which was released on Velour Records on August 8, 2006, features production work by Tortoise's John McEntire. The A.V.'s website, which features electric guitar shoegazing and effect boxes on the new album as well as the addition of a full band. The club called the music a "post-rock makeover." She promoted the album by going on tour with Sarah Bettens of K's Choice. Dave Grohl invited King to appear as a guitarist on the track "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners," a song written by Grohl for the Foo Fighters' forthcoming studio album. On the album titled Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, released on September 25, 2007, the King accepted and was acknowledged. She joined Dave Grohl on stage to perform the track at London's O2 arena on November 18, 2007.

Grohl highly praised King's performance:

On the Australian leg of the Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace tour, King traveled with the Foo Fighters. King ended recording what became the Day Sleeper while on tour (Australian tour EP). It was announced in late 2007 after the King had finished working on August Rush, and it was joined by Eddie Vedder and Sean Penn on Into The Wild.

In December 2007, King hired Malcolm Burn to help with her next album, Dreaming of Revenge, and she wrote about it on her website: "I finished the new album." Make sure your panties aren't tangled, because it won't be announced until next year, but it's done. "It's amazing!" says the narrator. Dreaming of Revenge was released on March 11, 2008, attracting more melodic pop tunes than previous albums. iTunes released a complete version of Dreaming of Revenge on March 4, 2008, with the bonus track "I Want A Girl Who Knows A Map." She began her tour after filming a video for "Pull Me Out Alive."

She headlined at The Roxy and toured with The Mountain Goats, resulting in the exclusive release of Kaki King and The Mountain Goats EP Black Pear Tree EP. "Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Actually Be A Bad Person?" King filmed "Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Actually Be A Bad Person" while touring Australia in 2008. In Sydney, there is a Sydney train station. Michael Ebner's rest of the film was shot in 2009 in New York. After completing the last leg of her world tour, King decided to tour once more with strictly acoustic performance. King's 'No Bullshit' Tour' was a smaller tour that concentrated on her first albums' acoustic performances as well as stripped-down versions of her newer songs.

King produced work on the independent film How I Got Lost and began recording her new EP, entitled Mexican Teenagers EP, after finishing her "No Bullshit Tour." King recruited her band from Dreaming of Revenge, and she released five new songs for her latest album.

King began to outline her visions for her 5th film after speaking with Carter Burwell to begin work on the Twilight films and finishing work on Timbaland's Shock Value II (which became Miley Cyrus' "We Belong to the Music). The queen's obsession with Cold War books, Russian spies, and spy themes, particularly the one of double spies living in a double life, became the inspiration for her latest album, Junior. Junior showcases her further maturation as a well-rounded artist who continues to defy categorization and aspirations, ranging from exuberance and rage to heartbreaking melancholy, and sonically from experimental works to mainstream pop."

Dreaming of Revenge, Lynn Burn's 2008 album, was recorded in Kingston, New York, by Malcolm Burn. However, Junior was created with only three musicians in mind, in this case King, multi-instrumentalist Dan Brantigan, and drummer Jordan Perlson, contrasting to that record's deep textures and layers as well as unusual instrumentation. The end was something more concrete. "I would have written a lot in the studio and played all the instruments myself," King says. "I really leaned on Dan and Jordan to help shape the songs and help with the recording process."

On the Cooking Vinyl label, King toured for five weeks in Europe in favor of her LP Junior. She appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as the musical guest on The Roots as a member of the house band, and began a US-based tour later this year.

When asked by Premier Guitar Magazine what her plans were after completing her tour, King replied, "I've been on the road for four months in a row." We'll be finished with this tour in another three weeks. That's about as far as I can see.

King returned to her roots as a solo acoustic performer in 2011, on her first tour without a backing band since 2005. King planned a tour with seven instruments, including a harp guitar, dojo, a custom 7-string nylon string guitar with fanned fret board, and a blend of a guitar and koto made by the King. Before starting the tour, King performed with some of these instruments at the opening of an exhibit of Picasso's guitar works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The tour started in Mexico City on February 24 and concluded in Binghamton on April 9, 2011.

King envisaged an art show in which twelve different artists would be invited to produce visual works based on her songs, using the guitar as the primary artistic medium.

As King described it,

The final product came to fifteen separate pieces that were then on display at The Littlefield in Brooklyn for a one-night exhibition. During the display, the queen exhibited her own contribution by coating her hands in pink paint and performing her song, 'Playing with Pink Noise,' leaving the guitar covered in pink fingerprints.

Everybody Glows, Kaki's first B-sides and rarities album, was released on November 4, 2014. The collection includes a number of outtakes, demos, covers, live versions, and never before heard recordings extracted from scratched demo CDs, long-forgotten hard drives, and the fuzzier parts of her memory. The collection illustrates the evolution of her songwriting while also showing a glimpse of a young guitarist doing daring things on her guitar before she understood the significance of any of it. Each song is included on the album, as well as liner notes prepared by her father. This is Kaki's first album on her own label, Short Stuff Records.

In 2014, King collaborated with the visual experience firm Glowing Pictures to produce a multimedia film in which the guitar is used as a projection screen to tell a tale. The neck is a bridge to the Body is the subject of an hour-long performance. On the Ovation Adamas 1581-KK King Signature 6-String Acoustic Guitar designed specifically for the project, simulations of a creation myth including genesis and death were cast.

"The Guitar is a shape-shifter," King says of "something that performs all sorts of instruments and really fills all sorts of roles." It's not always the six-string guitar we all know and love. I've been playing guitar for more than 30 years. It's who I am, and if anything, this project has made me even more aware of it."

The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body debuted in Brooklyn's BRIC Theater in New York City in 2014, and it will tour extensively in 2015. On March 3, 2015, Short Stuff Records, King's label, Short Stuff Records, will also have an album repping the show's songs.

King held a course on digital pedalboards with online music education platform Soundfly in August 2017, demonstrating many of the techniques she used in The Neck Is a Body Tour performances.

In 2019, King premiered DATA NOT FOUND, a monologue, set design, lighting scheme, and audio-reactive sound design. After working with sound designer Chloe Alexandra Thompson to produce the sound design for DATA NOT FOUND, King expanded on the show's music by co-producing Chloe Alexandra Thompson and Arjan Miranda. The album also features the passerelle bridge, a new invention created by King in collaboration with Providence-based luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz.

The album was released in New York City in early March 2020, just days before the first citywide COVID-19 shutdowns. "We all gave each other COVID when we were making the record," the King explained. Once everyone recovered, it became clear that tour reservations would have to be postponed, but King decided to go forward with the unveiling of the record. "It's kind of shocking that it even happened," She says as a result of the time.

On October 23, 2020, Cantaloupe Music's album Modern Yesterdays was released.

King produced MODERN YESTERDAYS (the live show titled after the album), showcasing audio-reactive designs for both the guitar and snare drums, inspired by the album's source inspirations. In late October 2020, the live show debuted in Atlanta, Georgia, first seen at the Ferst Center for the Performing Arts. In September 2021, MODERN YESTERDAYS debuted in front of a huge audience at Lincoln Center in New York City. It is currently on tour around the world.

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