Kate Boy

Stockholm's sleek yet edgy electro-pop outfit Kate Boy features singer/songwriter Kate Akhurst and producer Markus Dextegen. Originally from Australia, Akhurst began her songwriting career while still in her teens and ended up in Los Angeles in the early 2010s. After moving to Sweden, she met Dextegen, who was one-third of the production team Rocket Boy. Dubbing themselves Kate Boy as an expression of the project's androgynous persona and their egalitarian creative process, the project's first single, "Northern Lights," arrived in 2013. Several other singles appeared over the next couple of years, including 2014's "Self Control." Kate Boy's first full-length, One, dropped in 2015. ~ Heather Phares