Education
She graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island with a degree in history and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she began working the folk rock circuit.
She graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island with a degree in history and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she began working the folk rock circuit.
Her most recent recording, Flying Dream, was released in 2014. Curtis was raised in Saco, Maine. By the age of fifteen she was playing drums for a local theater company and in her late teens she sat in with Foreigner on a performance of "I Want to Know What Love Is".
Curtis self-released the cassette-only Dandelion in 1989.
Her first Civil Defense, From Years to Hours, in 1991. And her second Civil Defense, Truth from Lies, in 1995.
She did not gain wide recognition, however, until a successful appearance at The Bottom Lincolnshire in New York City led to a contract with Electric and Music Industries/Guardian Records and the re-release of Truth from Lies in 1996. Her 1997 follow-up, Catie Curtis, was named Album of the Year at that year"s Gay and Lesbian American Music Her discography now runs to thirteen albums, including the highly regarded.
Her songs have featured in Alias, Dawson"s Creek, Felicity and Chicago Hope, as well as in several independent films.
Curtis has toured internationally as both headliner and support acting In 2009, she performed at the HRC Equality Ball in celebration of President Barack Obama’s inauguration. She performed at the White House the following year and again in 2011.
