Katell Keineg

In May 2012, Keineg released a download single in Welsh called "Platform 0" recorded in New York for the internet radio show Radio Free Song Club with their all-star house band.

2. Nathan Bevan's interview in The Western Mail, 22 June 2012.http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/arts-in-wales/2012/06/22/breton-welsh-singer-songwriter-katell-keineg-on-why-she-s-always-been-an-outsider-91466-31234880/

Keineg released "At The Mermaid Parade", her fourth album, in spring 2010. It was released on STZ in North America and by Honest Jon's Records, Damon Albarn's label, in the rest of the world. The album was named "Album of the Week" in The Sunday Times. She toured in the UK and Ireland following the album's release, opening for singer-songwriter Krystle Warren and playing The Green Man festival.

She released a 4-song E.P. in January 2009 that includes the re-recorded "On Yer Way", a Welsh language cover of the Super Furry Animals song "Y Gwyneb Iau" and "Trouble", an outtake from "Jet" re-mixed by Scott. Later that year Keineg played at Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble in Woodstock.

Summer 2007 was spent playing European classical music festivals with concert pianist Katia Labeque's experimental band, B For Bang, whose first album was released in January 2008 and included a version of The Beatles "I Want You" sung by Keineg. She and Ann Scott played in Spain, Portugal and Norway during the course of that year and the next and started a joint recording project.

A six-page, high-profile interview with Darcy Frey was published on 2 July 2006 in The New York Times Magazine and this sparked new interest in Katell's music in the United States.

During the rest of 2006 and into 2007, Keineg played several sold out concerts in New York in the wake of the article, including a month-long Friday night residency at The Living Room in February 2007.

Also in 2006, she toured Wales with Ann Scott and Adrian Crowley and appeared on S4C's Wedi Saith evening programme.

1. Darcy Frey's article in The New York Times Magazine, 2 July 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/magazine/02keineg.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www

It was followed in 2004 by her third album, High July, released via the independent label Megaphone Music and later rereleased on Keineg's own STZ label. A re-recorded version of "On Yer Way" from that album was used over the credits of Deborah Kampmeier's indie film Virgin with Robin Wright released in 2003.

Following disappointing sales of Jet and a change of management at Elektra, Keineg endured a number of unhappy years at Elektra during which time she released no new music. Eventually she was able to secure a release from her contract with Elektra and to gain back rights to her first two albums. Having been out of print for a while, Ô Seasons Ô Castles and Jet were re-released on the Field Recording Co label in 2002.

Also in 2002, Katell released a four-track E.P. titled What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End of Time? which more than marked a return to form. It consisted of the title track, a live version of Nick Drake's River Man sung at a Nick Drake tribute at St. Ann's Church in Manhattan, Waiting For the Weight of Space and Beautiful Day.

Her first release was a seven-inch single called "Hestia" on SOL, an independent label co-owned by musicians Bob Mould and Nicholas Hill. She was signed by Elektra in 1993 and in 1994 her debut album, Ô Seasons Ô Castles was released. One of the songs, The Gulf of Araby, was played regularly by Natalie Merchant at concerts for several years and is featured on her live album "Live in Concert, New York City – June 13th 1999". Merchant also invited Keineg to sing on her debut album, Tigerlily, on the song Carnival.

3. Elysa Garner's article in The Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1997. https://web.archive.org/web/20120704192145/http://www.katellkeineg.com/press.html#lat_7.97

4. Jim Irvin's article in Mojo, October 1994.http://www.katellkeineg.com/press.html#lat_7.97

In 1993, Keineg sang on "Mixin' The Colors" from Iggy Pop's American Caesar album.

In the early 1990s she lived in New York for a time. A live appearance in Times Square was recorded by Irish TV in the summer of 1992, by which time she had become one of a number of regular performers at the, now defunct, Sin-é in lower Manhattan.

Katell Keineg (born February 1965), is a Breton-Welsh singer-songwriter, based in Wales.