Cat Power

Cat Power is the kind of artist who can wreck you with a single held note. Chan Marshall's voice has this fragile-then-devastating quality, and her early records like Moon Pix feel like eavesdropping on someone's most private hours. What I love most is her covers work, the way she completely rebuilds songs like (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction until they're unrecognizable and somehow truer. She's had a famously turbulent journey, including notoriously erratic early live shows, which only makes her later command of the stage more moving. An indie lifer who never sold out the strangeness.

Cat Power is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, born in 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia. Emerging from the 1990s indie rock and lo-fi scene, she became known for her spare, emotionally raw songwriting and distinctive smoky voice. Albums such as Moon Pix (1998) and The Greatest (2006) cemented her reputation, and she is also celebrated as an interpreter of cover songs.

Name (English)

Cat Power

Name (Japanese)

キャット・パワー

Reading

きゃっと・ぱわー

Born

January 21, 1972 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Occupation

Singer-songwriter / Actor / Singer / Composer / Pianist

• Official sitehttps://www.catpowermusic.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/catpowerofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/CATPOWER
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%20Power
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232348

Tags

• From Georgia
• Singer-songwriter
• Actor
• Singer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.