Katy Davidson was born in 1977 in rural Arizona. Her first home was a geodesic dome her father built on the south side of a mountain in the Sonoran Desert. Every spring the mountain would turn orange when the poppies bloomed. As a child, Katy was obsessed with the albums Third Stage by Boston and Seven and The Ragged Tiger by Duran Duran. She taught herself guitar as a teenager by playing along with Liz Phair CDs on a nylon-string acoustic.

Katy's music represents a spectrum of styles encompassing melodic folk, experimental music, and ethereal pop. She writes lyrics with layered meanings that contemplate the vast realms and intersections of wilderness, humanity, morality, technology, late capitalism, and love.