THE Filipino and Irish deep
love of music and dance has
been well recognised across
the world, and they have
come together in an attractive
package born in Australia:
Catherine Bartolome
Thompson.
Now popularly known as ‘Cat’
Thompson, she’s an urban
artist who can dance as well
as she sings, and writes most
of her music. She released her
latest single ‘Be Mine’ early
this year, and it has been on
the music charts and played
at music bars across the USA,
Europe, the Philippines,
the Solomon Islands, and
Australia.
It must come naturally for
Cat, a product of two distinct
cultures from opposite sides
of the world that share the
distinction of having music
and dance embedded in their
DNA. Her mother Leila is from
the Philippines, where almost
every Pepe and Pilar can
sing and dance. Cat’s father
Bernard is from Northern
Ireland, where song and dance
are almost an Irish birthright.
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Embedded in her
DNA twice over