Kate’s debut album is called Melankton, which means "black rose." Kate Havnevik was always going to make music since she joined the world in Oslo, the daughter of Andrew Cunningham from Faversham, England and his Norwegian wife, Lotte. The classical flute players divorced when little Kate was just one year old. "My mother's maiden name is Havnevik, she brought me up in Oslo and she's a very strong woman so I took her maiden name." Kate’s creative genes were not to be wasted. She played the piano (hey, it was expected), the flute (hey, her school's marching band had a nice uniform), and the guitar (hey, she wanted to be as cool as her big brother). By the time she was 13, she was composing piano pieces and her family would hum her melodies around the house. At 14, she joined an all-female punk band as a guitar player. They rehearsed in an illegally occupied house called BLITZ in Oslo. “I was the youngest and instantly became the little mascot of the band, not even old enough to join them in the pub after rehearsal,” she says laughing. Later on, having seen some of the world and being influenced by all the Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell records she "borrowed" from the Oslo record shop where she worked, our heroine began writing proper songs. This year, Kate did her first Melankton live show, a support gig for Sigur Ros in Oslo.