Catarina Aimee Dahms

Cata.Pirata was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, and started moving around as a teenager, following her social activist filmmaker parents. She has lived in the Azores, the Netherlands, Ibiza and later also in Argentina and in the UK (where she completed her Masters in Visual Performance & Time-Based Arts), learning to speak several new languages along the way. She then settled in Amsterdam, where she developed multiple creative activities, working as a visual artist, an editor-in-chief (for youth-literature mag Spunk), curator, until her passion for music and performance eventually prevailed: she dove headlong into songwriting & performing and started developing her own unique style in her band SKIP&DIE, also directing and starring in all their music videos.