Peter Katz is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
Katz is a 2012 Juno Award nominee and Emerging Artist of the Year nominee at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Katz has sold over 15,000 copies of his discs and performed with artists such as The Swell Season (The Frames), Dan Mangan, The Good Lovelies, Joel Plaskett, Bahamas, Royal Wood, Lucky Fonz III, Donavon Frankenreiter, and Garth Hudson from The Band, members of Levon Helm's band (on stage with Glen Hansard's band).
Katz's 2010 studio record First of the Last to Know debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes singer-songwriter charts and features a guest appearance by Academy Award winner Glen Hansard (The Swell Season, 'Once'), Juno Award winners The Good Lovelies and Melissa McClelland (Whitehorse, Sarah Mclachlan). In 2011, Katz released a live CD/DVD entitled Peter Katz and Friends: Live at the Music Gallery. It earned him a Juno nomination for Music DVD of the Year.
Katz released a studio album called Still Mind Still on 24 April 2012. Recorded mostly live off the floor at a cabin in the woods, the album features the singles âÂÂStill Mind StillâÂÂ, âÂÂLittle OneâÂÂ, and âÂÂIt Was Youâ (with Emma-Lee).
In 2015, Katz released We Are The Reckoning, produced by co-producers Royal Wood (multiple Juno Award Nominee) and Bill Lefler (Ingrid Michaelson, Cary Brothers), featuring the singles âÂÂWe Are The Reckoningâ and âÂÂBrotherâÂÂ, the latter of which was ranked #3 on CBC Radio 2âÂÂs Top 20 âÂÂFan Favouritesâ of 2015, #8 on the CBC Top 100 Most-Played Songs of 2015, and #55 on CBC Radio 2âÂÂs Top 100 Songs of 2015. In 2015, Katz released We Are The Reckoning, produced by co-producers Royal Wood (multiple Juno Award Nominee) and Bill Lefler (Ingrid Michaelson, Cary Brothers), featuring the singles âÂÂWe Are The Reckoningâ and âÂÂBrotherâÂÂ, the latter of which was ranked #3 on CBC Radio 2âÂÂs Top 20 âÂÂFan Favouritesâ of 2015, #8 on the CBC Top 100 Most-Played Songs of 2015, and #55 on CBC Radio 2âÂÂs Top 100 Songs of 2015. Renowned CBC Radio 2 radio host Tom Power called it âÂÂone of the most heartfelt, beautiful and vulnerable records of the year. The new Peter Katz is an astonishing record.âÂÂ
KatzâÂÂs most recent release was 2020âÂÂs City of Our Lives, featuring the singles âÂÂPaper Thin,â âÂÂLike We Used to Be,â and âÂÂTake Mine.âÂÂ
His newest studio album, Everything Unfolding, will be released in 2025.
PeterâÂÂs acoustic version of BeyoncéâÂÂs Halo has amassed more than 30 million views.
Note: Singer Peter Katz composed the lyrics and music for "The Camp Song"; this song is part of the song repertoire of many summer camps in Canada. This song was composed in 2008 for the International Camping Fellowship congress which took place in Quebec.