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Kaki King (born August 24, 1979 as Katherine Elizabeth King) is an American guitar player and singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. In February 2006, Kaki King was named as a “Guitar God” by Rolling Stone Magazine, becoming the first ever female to make this list in the history of the publication.

In February 2006, King was named as a “Guitar God” by Rolling Stone Magazine, becoming the first ever female to make this list in the history of the publication.On December 13, 2007, King was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the music she played in the film Into the Wild. She was nominated for the award along with Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook, who also contributed music to the film.

King's style combines fret-tapping with slap bass techniques, using the guitar for percussive beats,as well as sound layering and looping, which creates a complex sound. Her playing style evokes Michael Hedges and Preston Reed, the latter of whom she explicitly cites as an influence.
On December 13, 2007, Kaki King was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the music Kaki King played in the film Into the Wild. King's style combines fret-tapping with slap bass techniques, using the guitar for percussive beats, as well as sound layering and looping, which creates a complex sound. Kaki King will be performing live in UK this year. Get your Kaki King Tickets from Sold Out Ticket Market at nominal rate.

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Kaki King Talent

King's talents began to catch on within the music industry, and more artists became interested in using King as a guitarist on their tracks. In 2007, she was featured as a guest guitarist on The Con, an album by Canadian indie-pop/rock band Tegan and Sara, released on July 24, 2007. She appears on the tracks “Knife Going In”, playing lap steel, and on “Floorplan”, playing guitars. Both songs were written by Sara Quin.She is also featured on Northern State's 2007 album, Can I Keep This Pen? on the track "Fall Apart".

King guested as a guitarist on the track "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners" from the Foo Fighters' studio album, entitled Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, released on September 25, 2007, and on November 18, 2007 she joined Dave Grohl on stage to perform the track at the O2 arena in London. With fellow musicians like Serj Tankian and Jimmy Page in attendance, Grohl is quoted as saying: “There are some guitar players that are good and there are some guitar players that are really fucking good. And then there's Kaki King.”

On January 14, 2008, she appeared at a Breakfast with the Foo Fighters hosted by Kevin and Bean from KROQ-FM, a commercial radio station located in Los Angeles, California. There she performed "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners". Grohl jokingly stated that he is "molding her to take his place." She then went on tour with the Foo Fighters on the Australian leg of the Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace tour.

King also appears in the 2007 film August Rush, performing as the protagonist's hands and playing his guitar parts. In addition, she contributed to the music for the 2007 film, Into the Wild, produced and directed by Sean Penn, playing “Frame” and “Doing the Wrong Thing”. Both songs are featured on her second album, Legs to Make Us Longe.

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Kaki King Career

In 2005, she parted ways with major label Sony and returned to her original label, Velour. Kaki performed as an opening act for Eric Johnson during a leg of his 2005 tour.For her third album Until We Felt Red, King made a conscious decision to depart from her previous musical direction, out of a desire to escape being pigeonholed as a solo instrumental artist. The album features King's vocals on more tracks than previous albums. With the prominence of electric guitar on

the new record and the addition of a full band, the popular music website AV Club called the sound a “post-rock makeover”. Featuring production work by Tortoise's John McEntire, the album was released on August 8, 2006 on Velour Records.

In a MySpace bulletin on July 5, 2006, King announced that she would play with a full band for the first time on her "Until We Felt Red" tour. King's talents began to catch on within the music industry, and more artists became interested in using King as a guitarist on their tracks. In 2007, she was featured as a guest guitarist on The Con, an album by Canadian indie-pop/rock band Tegan and Sara, released on July 24, 2007. She appears on the tracks “Knife Going In”, playing lap steel, and on “Floorplan”, playing guitars. Both songs were written by Sara Quin.

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Kaki King Introduction

Kaki King is an American guitar player and singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.King was born August 24, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia. While King was still a small child, her father encouraged her interest in music. She was introduced to the guitar first, but when she learned to perform on the drums, they became her first serious instrument. King played in bands in high school with classmate Morgan Jahnig, who would later become the acoustic bassist of Old Crow Medicine Show. Upon graduating from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta in 1998, the two friends made their way to New York University. During her time there, King picked up the guitar again after years of neglect, and the 5'1" musician played a few occasional gigs and busked in the New York subways.

King's two earlier recordings (Everybody Loves You on Velour Records in 2003 and Legs to Make Us Longer with Sony Records) in 2004 featured more acoustic compositions. These albums focus on her unique guitar skills, such as hammering, tapping, and "fanning," as well as using intricate tunings of her guitar. However, her albums and tours since then have had more use of electric guitars, drums, keyboards and music loops.

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