Kate Diaz is 14. She started guitar lessons in 2nd grade and has been writing songs ever since. In 5th grade, she started putting videos on YouTube on her channel K8DS.
In 6th grade, Kate joined Voices Rising children’s choir, which she performed with for two years at the Chicago Symphony’s Welcome Yule!concerts. Since the summer after 6th grade, Kate has performed Saturdays at a Potbelly Sandwich Works restaurant. While Kate only has a few hundred subscribers, last year in 7th grade she performed at The Metro and The House of Blues, when well-known musicians invited her to their Chicago concerts after seeing her YouTube videos.
This year Kate opened her own facebook, twitter and web pages, and over winter break she discovered SonicBids and Craigslist. Kate keeps busy juggling school, soccer and Potbellys with looking for and performing shows in and around Chicago, including at The Abbey, The Elbo Room, and The Heartland Cafe. In November, Kate put her first single Christmas Smiles on iTunes, and in February she released a live acoustic CD Two By Four.
