New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Still grooving at 71 KATY’S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL LIFE

Thinking back on her action-packed life, Kiwi musician and artist Katy Soljak always knew some of it would not have been out of place in a dramatic novel filled with colourful characters.

There was the teenage marriage to an alluring American musician 20 years her senior, whom she met in a record store on Auckland’s Queen Street.

Then when the relationship went sour, she fled across the States with her young daughter in tow, her guitar, a few dollars and the phone number

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