Kate Clark is a cosmic cowgirl—boots in the dirt, eyes on the stars. She writes songs like spells: grounded in truth, laced with meaning, and steeped in ancestral memory. Her voice carries the ache of broken homes, the power of matriarchs, and the grit of women who ride anyway. She’s equal parts front-porch philosopher and mystic, blending Texas toughness with spiritual depth. 

Kate doesn’t just sing—she sees. The patterns, the pain, the poetry of it all. And through her music, she turns legacy into light, reminding us that some of us get last names... and some of us make them mean something. 

From the gospel songs she sang in school to the country classics she heard in her father's truck as an Austin, Texas teenager, emerging country music artist KATE CLARK grew up surrounded by music. It was her passion. Her therapy. Her bond with the outside world. Years before she moved to Nashville and began launching her career as a singer/songwriter, Kate fell in love with music's ability to connect and console.

Back then, her life seemed to unfold like a country song. Her father drank a lot, ultimately leaving the family when Kate was young. Raised by a single mom in Austin, she bonded with her absentee dad during his brief visits to town, when the two would ride around the Texas hill country in his truck. Sometimes, they'd talk. Other times, they'd just listen to music. Songs by George Strait, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings became the unofficial soundtrack to those father/daughter joyrides. Decades later, Kate still remembers how that music made her feel.

"Country music was something I shared with my dad," she explains. "It was our thing. It made us both feel like we were part of some bigger picture, when there wasn't anything else we could be a part of. My dad consumed country music like it was water—the water he needed to survive and to help dilute the demons behind the alcohol. We both connected with it, and that helped us connect with each other."

Kate also continued exploring music on her own by developing an expressive, elastic voice and a sharp sense of songwriting. While attending a fine arts high school in an urban neighborhood, she became a standout singer in the school's gospel choir. The experience added a soulful swagger to her voice. Soon after graduation, she began to pursue her career in music by playing small local clubs in Austin. She also landed a bit part in a local indie film titled Band Slam (the cast also included country music radio personality Bobby Bones). Looking to try her hand at acting along with her solo career, Kate bought a one-way bus ticket to Los Angeles, a city that was just as diverse as her musical tastes.

In Los Angeles, she first worked as a production assistant while trying her hand at auditioning for film and TV roles. It was while doing this P.A. job that she learned the craft of audio production and recording on Pro Tools, and before long she began assisting the engineer in sessions as needed.  These newly learned technical skills made it possible for Kate to record some of her own song demos, helping to pave the way toward her one-day dream job as a singer and songwriter. Meanwhile, although not a role she would utilize her voice with, she landed a stand-in and body double role for Scarlett Johansson in Iron Man 2 as well as a small on-screen part in the film.

Kate’s next big break was more in line with her career goals, to use her superb vocal ability. An opportunity presented itself via an engineer friend who helped Kate secure a huge singing role, albeit once again behind-the-scenes, in the box office bonanza, Pitch Perfect, and its sequel Pitch Perfect 2. In both movies, she served as the singing voice of many characters, including the movie’s star Brittany Snow. This proved to be another magnificent experience, yet it intensified the longing she felt to share her own voice and her own songs.

It was while spending the weekend at the Stagecoach festival in Indio, CA with friends and being immersed in the country music that she loved, she felt compelled to finally make the move to Nashville and start focusing on her own music. There, she spent time writing songs in private, developing her songwriter “voice” and honing a sound inspired by her Texas roots