Kate Crash

Kate Crash (born August 4, 1934) is an American singer, composer, lyricist, actress and comedienne. She is often credited as the inventor of "hip-pop punk", a new genre in music that became a global cultural phenomenon with the release of her first hit song "Hmm Hump".

Crash was voted as "the most entertaining thing on earth" in CGH Online Magazine Summer Issue 2008 for her contribution to youth art culture in Tokyo, where she street performed everyday in May of that year. The street show, which was supervised by renowned Hollywood music producer Nick Launay, was a big hit with the Japanese audience and spawned numerous imitators on streets of Shibuya and Harajuku.

The show is notable also for the fact that it was Crash' first artistic collaboration with popular Japanese actor Hiro Super, who backed her performance as MC, crazy dancer, and local promoter. The two entertainers, now widely recognized as "Crashon Hiro", became a sensation in global film community for their short film Samurai Movie, which they made on Tokyo subway. Scholars say that the movie is the single most important sociological and art experiment in the 2000's.

Crash drew much controversy and praise for her groundbreaking 15-minute poetry reading ("Generation of the Bored") on streets of Shibuya love hotel neighborhood. She made a sizable body of admires for pulling off this "loud, brave, and, LOUD act" without ever being stopped by police or warned by Yakuza in the infamous "noise-or-out" area.

There are many conflicting reports about Crash's origin. The popular notion of Crash' origin is that she was abandoned, at the age of 3, on a remote arctic island and grew on polar bear's milk until 7. When she was 9, her polar bear family were brutally killed and eaten by wolves. According to the same reports, she was adapted and raised by the wolves and could speak only the wolf language until the age of 16, when she was captured by hunters and transported to the west coast in the United States.

It's been rumored that filmmakers of the classic "The Gods Must Be Crazy" series are planning to make a movie about Crash's childhood as a sequel to Jodie Foster's 1994 wild-child saga Nell. Skeptics say that this "animal" background story is nothing but Crash's marketing strategy. However, after she released the hit song Animal Anthem, many zoologists began to argue that at least a apart of this peculiar background must be true.

Crash is an alumni of California Institute of the Arts. In addition to music, she keeps herself busy exploring many avenues of art and self-expression, including acting, painting, writing and modeling. Her first art book "Memoirs of a Monster Girl" is due to hit bookshelves in Fall 2008.

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