Name	Cat Power
Height	5' 8
Naionality	USA
Date of Birth	21 January 1972
Place of Birth	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Chan Marshall began playing and singing her haunting, musically spare avant-folk songs as Cat Power in the early 1990s, sometimes performing entire sets with her back to the audience. By 2006, she was recording with legendary Memphis soul musicians and had transformed from a whispering indie-rock shy curiosity into a husky-voiced folk-soul singer with the musical and emotional dynamics of a veteran singer such as Linda Thompson.

Charlyn Marie Marshall was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 21, 1972. She spent her early childhood moving among Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, living by turns with each of her divorced parents and a grandmother. She quit high school while living in Atlanta and began performing as Cat Power, opening for some of the city's notable underground bands such as the Opal Foxx Quartet. In 1992 she moved to New York City and continued playing with underground rockers, attracting the attention of Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelly. In December 1994, she recorded her first two albums of punk-inspired folk, country and blues songs — Dear Sir, released the following year on Plain Recordings, and Myra Lee, released in 1996 on Shelly's Smells Like label – with indie guitarist Tim Foljahn and Shelly on drums. The larger independent label Matador Records signed Marshall in 1996 and released her third Cat Power album, the critically acclaimed What Would the Community Think, on which she continued referencing country and blues while maintaining her signature slow-burning vocal delivery.

After a three-month tour, Marshall dropped out of the music scene and began working as a babysitter in Portland, Oregon, before moving to a farmhouse in South Carolina ostensibly to retire. After a sleepless night inspired more songs, however, she returned to record 1998's Moon Pix in Australia with members of that country's experimental instrumental band Dirty Three. Having tired of her own compositions, she began performing cover songs that would appear on her next album, 2000's The Covers Record. Some of the songs that didn't make it on that album — including Bob Dylan's "Hard Times in New York Town" and a much-abbreviated, ethereal version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" — were broadcast on the late, legendary British DJ John Peel's Radio 1 show on the British Broadcasting Corporation.

In 2003, she released You Are Free featuring guest vocals from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on drums. The following year, she issued an experimental DVD, Speaking for Trees, in which she performed in the woods for two hours in front of a stationary camera with crickets chirping in the background; it was shot by artist Mark Borthwick and included a bonus CD of the 18-minute song "Willie Deadwilder."

In 2005, she hit road again where she began working on songs that would appear on Cat Power's highly acclaimed album of the following year, The Greatest (Number 34), which marked a radical improvement in sound and production. The album featured Memphis guitarist Mabon "Teenie" Hodges and his bass-playing brother Leroy "Flick" Hodges, veterans of Al Green's band. Shortly thereafter, Marshall cancelled her U.S. tour as a result of a nervous breakdown her record label said stemmed from exhaustion and alcohol abuse.

In spring 2006, she resumed touring, alone as well as with the Memphis Rhythm Band. That same year, she put together The Dirty Delta Blues Band with guitarists Judah Bauer (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion), Gregg Foreman (The Delta 72) and Erik Paparazzi (Lizard Music), and drummer Jim White (Dirty Three). Jukebox which came out in early-2008 was a sequel to 2000's The Covers Record admirably interpreting songs by the likes of Dylan, Hank Williams and Sinatra.

Aside from her music, Marshall has done commercial work as spokesperson for a Chanel line of jewelry and singer behind commercials for the Cingular phone and De Beers diamond companies.