Portrait: Zebra Katz Globetrotter and lone wolf

Beat/ When did you first get in touch with music?

Zebra Katz/ I grew up in a very musical household, because my parents had music playing all the time. I listened to a lot of classical music and reggae, but also to the radio and I watched the music videos on MTV and VH1 up and down. When I went to Eugene College in New York City in 2004, I had a MacBook and fell in love with GarageBand. Those were very early experiments with my voice and production. I had a MySpace page back then and released my first tracks on it. My final project called "Moor Contradictions" dealt with the fragmented aspects of my personality. One of these characters is Zebra Katz, for whom I finally started to write songs. And this is how it all began

Beat/ What does the name Zebra Katz stand for?

When I go on stage lights go out and the curtain falls, Zebra Katz appears. He is a performer. I came up with the name in New York when I was an MC (microphone checker). I was holding the microphone, one of my friends was in the DJ booth and we were trying to get the people in the club to get drinks. I knew then that I wanted to make music and I wanted to give myself a pet name. I like zebras because