She began playing piano at four, sang in her church choir, and began playing the guitar when she was seventeen. Earl officially changed her name to Kate Earl before the release of her second album. Earl left
Record Collection in 2007, and signed with
Universal Republic the following year. A self-titled album,
Kate Earl, was released as a digital download on August 18, 2009, and in physical copy on November 3, 2009. and was written and recorded with
Brett Dennen,
Blake Mills, and other well-respected Los Angeles musicians. The first single from the album, "One Woman Army", was released on September 18, 2012. Earl joined the
Goo Goo Dolls and
Matchbox Twenty as the opening act during their Summer 2013 US and Canadian tour. In 2014, Earl decided to go indie and self produce her next album,
Ransom. In 2015, Earl submitted two songs to the BBC Introducing programme, "Good Witch" and "We Promised", and was chosen, as one of six from 200,000 entries, to appear on the BBC Introducing Stage at that year's Hyde Park festival. She was soon signed to BMG Records in the UK, and changed direction into "proper jazz", original, old-school, authentic jazz, drawing on her childhood love of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Big Band swing. The first single taken from her 2017 album
Tongue Tied is "Tongue Tied", which was nominated Radio 2's Record of the Week for the week starting Saturday February 25, 2017. The
uptempo,
syncopated,
electro swing "Tongue Tied" uses a sample from "Disco Bob" by Professor Bobo and Bosko Slim. "Disco Bob" was used as the soundtrack of TV ads for Homebase. Earl was announced as the opening act for
Rick Astley on his UK tour starting March 2017. Earl performed on episode three of
The Bachelorette (season 9). She sang two singles,
Loyalty and
One Woman Army, from her album
Stronger for Bachelorette Desiree Hartsock and her date Chris Siegfried. In 2023 Earl released
Rise via Position Music ==Discography==