Kate Bollinger

An indie singer/songwriter from Virginia, Kate Bollinger's introspective, jazz-inflected songs mix gentle atmospheres often built from complex extended chords with her bright, warm vocal delivery. Traversing folk, indie rock, and R&B leanings on early songs, she settled into a mellow indie pop with her second EP, 2019's I Don't Wanna Lose. One of its songs, "Candy," was sampled by Kanye West for his 2021 song "Donda." Bollinger made her Ghostly International debut in 2022 with her fourth EP, Look at It in the Light, and the label released her intimate debut album, Songs from a Thousand Frames of Mind, in 2024. Inspired by '60s and '70s pop, rock, and folk, its wispy, yellowed presentation was fashioned with collaborators such as Matthew E. White and Sam Evian.