About Kait:
KAIT DUNTON is a Los Angeles-based keyboardist, vocalist, composer and bandleader with eight albums of genre-pushing original music and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media and Spotify. You can feel Kait’s music flowing directly from the heart through her expressive and emotionally resonant performances. Playful, passionate and precise all at once, fans have called Kait a “joy bomb” and remark on her ability to connect deeply with her audience.
Music and the piano have been a constant in Kait’s life since before she can remember, and she has been writing her own compositions and songs for the last two decades. Now a confident multi-keyboardist and vocalist, Kait is known for her facility on the classic vintage keyboards like the Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Clavinet and Hammond B3, along with her sensitive and nuanced touch on the acoustic piano. From her first album in 2008, Real & Imagined —now a fan favorite with over three million streams—to her recent single, “this one’s for you” - with nearly three million views on Instagram, Kait continues to grow and evolve as an artist. She thrives on the growing edge and delights in sharing this with her audience on social media, inviting them to live in the moment right alongside her.
Kait’s original music has received 4.5 stars in DownBeat magazine and has reached top ten on the Jazz Week radio charts three times. She has performed with her band at the Monterey Jazz Festival and also records for major motion pictures, including the Mister Rogers movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
“Dunton brings a Technicolor sensibility to everything she touches.” – DownBeat
“Thrilling and original.” – PopMatters
Selected Discography
Film & TV:
2024 Nightbitch | Nate Heller, composer | Piano
2024 Turn Me On | Nate Heller, composer | Piano
2024 Bad Genius | Marius de Vries, composer | Piano
2023 Dicks: The Musical | Marius de Vries, composer | Piano
2018 Wont You Be My Neighbor | Nate Heller, composer | Piano
2019 The Little Mermaid Live! | ABC | Keyboard
2019 Empire | Fil Eisler, composer | Piano
2018 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | Mark Mothersbaugh, composer | Piano
2018 Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts | Dreamworks for Netflix | Daniel Rojas, composer | Piano
2017 Downsizing | Richard Ford, music editor | Piano
Recording:
2024 Christmas in California | Real & Imagined Music | piano + vocals
2023 Keyboards | Real & Imagined Music | Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, B3, Clavinet, piano
2023 A Very Keyboards Christmas | Real & Imagined Music | Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, B3, Clavinet, piano
2019 Shoulder to Shoulder | Karrin Allyson | eOne Music | Hammond B3, Fender Rhodes
2020 Reed Between the Lines | Jake Reed | keyboards, synthesizers
2020 Anachronism | Ross Garren, Jake Reed, André LaFosse | Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Hammond C3
2019 Planet D’earth | Real & Imagined Music | piano, Fender Rhodes
2018 Basso Profondissimo | Richard Ford | Fender Rhodes, keyboards
2020 trioKAIT Live | Real & Imagined Music | piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers
2018 trioKAIT 2 | Real & Imagined Music | piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers
2019 Beverly Blue | Justin Paul Sanders | piano
2019 Can’t Stand It | Ellis Hall ft. the Dennis Dreith Band | Magic Closet | piano
2015 In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee | Erik Leuthäuser | Mons Records | piano
2016 trioKAIT Casual | Real & Imagined Music | piano
2016 Piano Conversations | Albrecht Gündel-vom Hofe | primTON | piano
2015 trioKAIT | Real & Imagined Music | piano
2012 Shades of Christmas | Various Artists | The Gold Label | piano
2012 Mountain Suite | Real & Imagined Music | piano
2008 Real & Imagined | Real & Imagined Music | piano
2007 The World is Getting Smaller | Snarky Puppy | SiTMoM Records | keyboards
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