Cathy Battistessa is a British dance and balearic singer and songwriter, best known for her work with Blank & Jones, Cafe Del Mar and DJ Luck & MC Neat, with whom she had a top 10 hit in the UK.
Battistessa began working as a songwriter in 1993 in London, co-writing and performing as vocalist on dance tracks including Alpha Omega's "Rhythm Take Control" and one of the biggest selling songs on the Cafe del Mar series to date, a collaboration with the German production trio Levitation on "More Than Ever People".
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, she co-wrote numerous songs licensed to the Cafe del Mar including "Oh Home" with Paco Fernandez, "We the Light", "Tipped Up World" and "Two Eyes" with James Bright, a solo track titled "Heart of the Living Sun", two tracks with Blank & Jones; "Miracle Man" and "Happiness", Slowpulse's "Riva" and Afterlife's "Shine" and "Speck of Gold", which was written by Battistessa in a quest to write a song for hope in commemoration of the September 11 attacks,[1] and was featured on several Cafe del Mar compilations.
In 2009, Battistessa received an invitation to sing for the Dalai Lama for his birthday celebration at the COBO Arena, Frankfurt, Germany.
Battistessa's influences include Ella Fitzgerald, Minnie Riperton, Nick Drake, Van Morrison and folk musician John Martyn.