Kat KallingSinger/songwriter“Yeah, the relationship was trash,” she says, laughing. “After it ended, I was like, I need a new identity. You know, I’ve been abused a lot. I’ve been beaten down. And the idea of catcalling, it’s an offensive thing to do, right? But I was like, what if I just reclaimed it? Like, dude, like, I’m Kat Kalling now! It’s kind of ‘ode to feminism.’ It’s a play on my name. It also just radiates badass energy! Kat Kalling started as a persona, but she’s developed into literally who I am.” Hard to believe Kat once went by Katy this giddily swearing, heavily tattooed raconteur whose sometimes zany, sometimes harrowing life stories fuel indie pop ballads that soar high with feeling but still thrum hard with raucous saloon clamor.She calls herself an “emo cowgirl” and, well, that nails it. Kalling was born and raised in Sheridan, Wyoming, with all the side dishes. “Literally, I was a horseback-riding, gun-shooting rodeo kid, loved c
Las Vegas Weekly
Kat Kalling
Leslie Ventura Thu, Jan 14, 2021 (2 a.m.)
It’s “an ode to feminism,” explains Las Vegas singer-songwriter Kat Kalling. She’s talking about her stage name, chosen as a way to own the unwanted and all-too-common and act of cat-calling, by claiming the power away from misogynists.
“I grew up in a troubled, abusive home,” the 30-year-old Kalling says candidly over the phone, her voice warm and inviting. On her upcoming EP,
Eberly, that voice transforms into a different kind of call a call to action, a reckoning.
“I had a psychotic breakdown when I wrote these songs,” Kalling says. She had also been in a severe car accident with a semitruck. “I’m a chaos magnet,” she laughs.