Katy Shotter is twenty-one and has been singing and playing the piano all her life, she thinks that Chancers is a wicked opportunity to get noticed and go out to America which is something she has wanted to do all her life. She comes from a very musical family and started playing the piano at the tender age of four. Katy’s influences are Stevie Wonder, Lauryn Hill, Ray Charles, India Arie, Nat King Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Musiq Soulchild, Ella Fitzgerald and D’Angelo, she has also been exposed to different genres by her rock guitarist older brother. Katy is into soul, gospel, jazz, RnB, alternative and indie music. She was previously in girl band Espree perfoming at the Channel U awards; she wants to be a solo artist so left them at Christmas. She describes her style as ‘very raw and old school’ and classic like Stevie Wonder. She would describe herself as Stevie Wonder meets Alicia Keys, add to that a bit of Ray Charles and you have Katy Shotter! Katy’s favourite film is the Wizard of Oz and has a weakness for chocolate doughnuts. She describes herself as ambitious, bubbly, hard-working, scatty and talented. Kay wants to change the music industry and says she has that little extra something. She first appeared on T4's show "Chancers" where a group of young musicians went to America to try and fulfill their dreams. Katy got to the final and she came joint 1st. Beyoncés dad Matthew Knowles awarded her a £500,000 recording contract with Music World Record Company. She's been working on her debut album and is ready to release it sometimes this year. Katy was on tour with Beyonce on "The Beyoncé Experience" for over 3 months during part of the Europe, UK and USA legs of the tour. Katy got amazing reviews being compared to Alicia Keys, she sings Alicia's song "If I Ain't Got You" during her set. One reviewer even said she sang it better than Alicia herself. Her set was around 20 minutes long including her debut single "Complicated Woman" which came out on iTunes on 7th August. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.