About Kate Northrop

www.songwave.ch Kate Northrop is an American songwriter based in Europe who works primarily as a lyricist with many talented artists, composers and producers. Her credits include songs with major publishers (Universal Germany, EMI South Africa, Melodie der Welt, etc.), lyrics for a song in the soundtrack of an award-winning German short film, and many more. In June 2020 a song she co-wrote (Beyond the Black, "Out of the Ashes" / Universal Germany / Napalm Records) reached number 3 in the official German album charts. She has written lyrics for hundreds of songs, including with German Echo Award-winning producer Hardy Krech, and with German producer Goar Biesenkamp and his team at Unicade Music. In February 2018 she had a song in the Swiss top 6 for the Eurovision Song Contest. Selected References: Beyond the Black (Universal Music, Germany) Reached number 3 in the official German charts, 2020 The Beyond Music Project: Creativity Award and Popularity Award for the song "Water" Universal Music, Germany / Elephant Music / with producer Hardy Krech Eurovision Songwriting Camp 2017, organized by SUISA and Pele Loriano Productions, Switzerland Sound Czech Songwriting Camp, 2019 EMI Music Publishing, South Africa / with EMI songwriter Andrew Ord Warner Music, Finland / With Warner songwriter Ilkka Wirtanen Unicade Music, Germany / with producer Goar Biesenkamp Melodie Der Welt Publishing, Germany ZDF / ARTE / ARD TV Germany with film music composer George Kochbeck Naeman, Switzerland /„Kiss Me“, for Eurovision 2018 DaFoo / Pele Loriano Productions, Switzerland Outdoors / Vito Lavita / Lee‘Oh (Unicade Music, Germany) Dodo Hug (Zytglogge / Hugini Records, Switzerland)

Work experience

Kate's Skills

Art
  • Content Creator
Live
  • Artist
Venue Type Experience
  • Club
  • Festival
Musician
  • Instrumentalist
  • Singer
Songwriting
  • Co-Writer
  • Lyricist
  • Songwriter
  • Top Line

Kate's Genres

  • Alternative Rock
  • Blues
  • Country
  • Electronic
  • Experimental
  • Folk
  • Funk
  • Grunge
  • House
  • Indie Rock
  • Jazz
  • Metal
  • New Wave
  • Pop
  • Psychedelic
  • Punk
  • R&B
  • Reggae
  • Soul
  • World

Kate's Experience

As a lyricist, I always collaborate with other musicians. I’ve worked in several songwriting camps (Eurovision Switzerland) and have numerous co-writes with songwriters from all over the world. I’ve had several songs in the Swiss and German pop charts, and have songs signed to major labels. I am currently involved with Tina Turner’s “Beyond Music” project, where a song I co-wrote has won two awards and has been chosen to record for the upcoming album.