Katarina Pejak

Katarina Pejak is a Serbian-born singer, songwriter, and pianist. Her original music combines various strains of American roots music filtered through her Balkan heritage and years of formal classical piano training. Her clear alto delivers a sound that harkens back to the early and mid-20th century, and straddles the genre fence between barrelhouse boogie, swinging jazz, deep blues, roots rock, and cabaret tunes. As evidenced by Pejak's catalog, early Tom Waits and Bessie Smith are obvious points of reference, but one can also hear Otis Spann, Victoria Spivey, and even Norah ...