Cassidy (musician)

Cassidy aka Susan H Catanzaro as appears on writing credits including: Demi Lovato "For You" Album - Confident, "Graveyard Moon" Album - Mount Holly Band, "Heart Of Glass" Album - Swedish Pop Artist Tommy Burr. Now professionally performing as Cassidy and The Music and previously as Bohème, was the lead singer and writer for the band Antigone Rising from 1999 through 2008.

Cassidy was born Susan H Catanzaro in 1971 and grew up in Sparta Township, New Jersey, a small rural town in Sussex County. She has one brother Eugene. Cassidy says that growing up near the Pennsylvania border amongst the lakes and farms influenced her love of nature and her free spirit. She began attending a nearby Nazarene Gospel Church with her father as a small child. Its pastor was her next door neighbor. That's where Cassidy discovered the joy that's created from singing. Her mother's taste in music also influenced her: Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, and Southern Rock and soul from the 1970s.

Cassidy as a youngster sang in local bands learning the ropes by singing back-ups for local hero, Jim Kilby. She then moved to New York City, often performing solo or with a band. Cassidy got her first paying job when she relocated to Los Angeles, as a singer and dancer in stage reviews written and produced by Emmy Award-Winning Anita Mann. It was around this time that Cassidy traveled through the US, South America and Europe, spending two summers in Alaska.

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