RNZ Music is proud to present the new video from emerging Lyttleton artist Kate Owen. ‘Lullaby’ is Kate’s debut single, and the first from her album Not A Proper Girl, which is due out in March.
The video for ‘Lullaby’ features up-and-coming contemporary dancer Destiny Beynon, choreographed by Co-Artistic Director and Head of Modern Dance at Southern Ballet Hayley Watts, and captured by acclaimed cinematographer John Chrisstoffels.
Kate recorded Not a Proper Girl with Lyttleton-based producer Ben Edwards, who’s worked with many of New Zealand’s top musicians including Marlon Williams, Aldous Harding and Tami Neilson.
Not A Proper Girl is due out in March 2020.
Kate’s been making music for a while now, under her given name Kate Anastasiou, playing up to five nights a week in post-earthquake Christchurch. She chose to take her mother’s maiden name for this latest project.
Her mother, Barbara Owen, a teacher from Nae Nae, suffered a long battle with multiple sclerosis and depression and took her own life in 1996.
In the aftermath, Kate’s song writing and music became a way to process and work through the trauma and grief that followed her mother’s suicide. Having been such a major influence in her need for music, Kate chose to take her mother’s name.
“Taking my mother’s maiden name felt like a really powerful thing to do,” Kate says, “Both as a woman and as a daughter that misses her mum very much.”
Not a Proper Girl features Jonty O’Connor (Shifting Sands, Emily Fairlight), Shane Bollingford, Tom Harris , Moses (House of Mountain, Jed Parsons), Anita Clark (Motte, Devilish Mary), Elmore Jones, Ben Edwards, and Mike Fordham.
