Cat Power

Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshall (born 21 January 1972), better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter. Cat Power was originally the name of her first band, but became her stage name as a solo artist.

Born in Atlanta, Marshall grew up in the American South and began performing with local bands in Atlanta in the early 1990s. After opening for Liz Phair in 1993, she worked with Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar, with whom she recorded her first two albums, Dear Sir (1995) and Myra Lee (1996), on the same day in 1994. In 1996, she signed with Matador Records and released a third album of new material with Shelley and Foljahn, What Would the Community Think. She then released the critically acclaimed album Moon Pix (1998), recorded with members of Dirty Three, and The Covers Record (2000), a collection of cover songs.

After a brief hiatus, she released You Are Free (2003), featuring guest musicians Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder, followed by The Greatest (2006), a soul-influenced album recorded with numerous Memphis studio musicians. A second covers album, Jukebox, was released in 2008. In 2012, she released Sun, which she produced herself and which debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, the highest chart placing of her career to date. Critics have noted the steady evolution of Cat Power's sound, with a blend of punk, folk and blues on her early albums, and elements of soul and other genres more prominent in her later work.