Cathy的父亲是位音乐家，母亲致力于雕塑事业，她的童年经常要往返于英国和爱尔兰。她的学生时代也并不风平浪静，她的独特的思想似乎与规规矩矩的教育相抵触。这种持续的摩擦在接下来的岁月里很快就停止了，因为Cathy不可避免的被学校开除了。她的学校教育还是培养了她地艺术才能，并且为她艺术学院去学习音乐铺平了道路。 Cathy很有作曲的天赋，但她很少将曲子记录下来，或者尝试整理她的作品，所以她总是自己默记曲子。她的第一场特约演奏是在一个户外音乐会上，她的表演及她自制的母带，促使她与Miles Leonard签下了一份合约 Cathy在威尔士与Ben渡过了美好的，灿烂的夏天。此后Something Ilk对Cathy的出道给与了高度的评价，但是Cathy的首张份个人专辑却销量惨淡。经过18个月巡回演唱的折磨，Cathy忽然意识到，从她自制的母带到站在舞台上给陌生人唱歌还有很长的路要走，而且并不是事事都会顺心。如果没有媒体的支持，她的首张个人专辑不可能得到听众的认可。 经过整整3年的准备，Cathy才发行了她的第二张专辑。这期间，Cathy往返与英国和爱尔兰，花费了很大的精力进行创作。以一套科学的方法，保证了Cathy可以在她的歌曲中自由发挥，而不是花很多钱去经营一个大的音乐工作室。 她的制作人Ex-Sneaker Pimp和Liam Howe 尽力帮助Cathy继续她实验性质的音乐表达，同时保证歌曲的真实感。这也许是她的两张专辑最大的不同了。结果可想而知，Cathy的新歌Rueben, Sing for Your Supper, and Moving等等都非常的耐听，并且在不断的重复中使人沉醉不已。by Dave DonnellyRarely anything but unorthodox, Dubliner Cathy Davey's musical development has been almost as atypical as her listening habits. Having initiated a major-label bidding war before she'd ever performed live, Davey took her time assembling a group of musicians who would not only realize her own ideas, but add their own influences to her bare-bones alternative pop. In her spare time, she admits she prefers not to listen to music, instead taking pleasure in reading, drawing, and watching television. Suffice to say, it's difficult to pick out too many of the usual influences in her music. Stock comparisons toPJ Harvey, Björk, and Kate Bush are somewhat useful, in the sense that she inhabits the same sphere of left-field female pop artists, but her use of blues and ambient electronic music sets her apart as an artist, as does her purposeful, playful obtuseness directly recalls her noted idol Tom Waits and contemporaries Radiohead. Cathy Davey was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1979. Claiming to be too poor to buy her own records while growing up, Davey instead latched onto the music of friends, experiencing Guns N' Roses, the Stone Roses, and Radiohead as they reached their creative peaks. Noting that she could never adequately express herself by conventional means, Davey instead turned to the arts, developing interests in composing poetry, music, and art. Through her teenage years and early twenties, Davey composed in private, preferring not to perform in a live setting until she had the financial backing to employ musicians. In 2002, she put together a four-song, self-produced demo tape which she began to shop to record labels. The response to the tape was astounding, and a bidding war ensued between a number of Irish and British labels, with EMI eventually pipping Rough Trade to her signature.Davey took time out in 2002 to add guest vocals to "Jellyman" from Wicklow electronic act Autamata's debut album My Sanctuary, and in 2003 joined Jimi Goodwin of Doves to lend backing vocals to Elbow's "Grace Under Pressure." She spent 2003 assembling a band, which included the then ex-the Verve bassist Simon Jones and keyboardist Diana Gutkind, a longtime member of Blur's touring band, and made her live debut in support of Dublin songwriter David Kitt. In January of 2004, she completed recording Something Ilk, whetting the public's appetite with the hungrily received Come Over EP in April. Something Ilk saw release in the U.K. and Ireland in late August via EMI's Regal Recordings imprint and debuted at number 28 in the Irish Album Chart, buoyed by the hit single "Clean and Neat." Successful tours opening for Elbow, Supergrass, and Graham Coxon followed, as did another single titled "Cold Man's Nightmare." Davey moved toward a more electronic sound for her second studio album, Tales of Silversleeve, although lead single "Reuben" became her most successful single to date on the strength of its Bo Diddley blues beat. "Reuben" spent seven weeks in the Irish Singles Chart, debuting at number 42 in September of 2007. Tales of Silversleeve peaked at number 24 upon its release in October, and had spent 14 weeks in the Top 50 as of January 2008.