CATSELF is Agnieszka Holm. I was born in Poland, moved to Finland soon after I grew up and happened not to move away, so it feels like having two home countries. I studied English at Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin, Poland, and University of Joensuu, Finland, and the brilliant instruction I received there probably helps me write my lyrics!

I learned to play the guitar by myself, and then learned to play some other (easy) instruments; now I'm learning the piano. I have done many things in my life, but music has always been with me and the times when I was not writing songs were not good times. Like many, I played for friends first, then started playing in pubs - in small towns of Finland, Ireland and Norway.