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Less than 24 hours after its final mix by Tkae Mendez (No Doubt, Lee Scratch Perry), DJ Jus Ske debuted Katie Neils latest track Movie Screen at New Yorks premier club, Stereo. Following the massive crowd reaction, Movie Screen was picked up by DJs in the club scene and is quickly becoming the theme song for every hotspot in Manhattan. This recent development is just one more incredible accomplishment for this multi-talented 17 year-old singer/songwriter from New York City.

After performing Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company at age 8, two more roles at the Kennedy Center followed. By 10, she was co-starring in Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway. Katie wrote and recorded her first pop CD at 13. In 2004 Katie was touring the Northeast with her own rock band.

At age 14 she became the youngest member of SESAC, the by-invitation-only performing rights organization for songwriters. Not long after, two songs Katie had written and recorded were featured on the sold out Target compilation CD, Girls Night Out Pop Radio. With a track co-written with Denise Rich and Jay Levine (Fefe Dobson) on Susan Cagles upcoming Columbia release, Katie Neils prolific songwriting talents belie her chronologic age.

Throughout 2005 and 2006, Katie continued writing, recording, and performing songs derived from her lifes experiences touring with such notable artists as Jesse McCartney, Lifehouse, Teddy Geiger, Click Five, Aly & AJ and Lil Romeo while continuing to headline at some of New Yorks best known rock clubs. The Philadelphia Inquirer proclaimed, "The stage is practically her second home. And on her songwriting, "She sings about her life She writes about what she knows, what it's like to be a teenager." The Courier News declared her, "A sensation." Ticket Magazine wrote, "she seems light years older than her chronological age."

Turning 17 in the fall of 2006 and with 50,000 Myspace friends, Katie returned to the studio combining her pop/rock roots with more urban hip-hop beats and rhythms. The result: A completely distinctive and sophisticated sound rarely defined at such a young musical age. Whether its the haunting sounds of Touch The Movie Screen or her collaboration with LA rapper Yung Berg (Epic) on Dangerous, its no wonder the music critic of the Tribune-Review asked this seemingly rhetorical question, "Haven't heard of Katie Neil?" "Well, you will!"


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