Kathy Colby Kurasch’s extraordinary career in the arts began at the young age of fourteen. With the tremendous musical influence from her accomplished studio violinist father, William Kurasch, Kathy composed her first song at the age of ten. By fourteen she signed her first publishing contract with The New York Times Music Corporation. By the age of seventeen she served as a judge for the American Song Festival, Clio Awards, was a guest speaker at UCLA's Record Production Class, and was nominated to be on the board of governors for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Before the age of twenty-one Kathy composed, engineered, and produced the long running mini song jingles for CBS KNX-FM featuring artists Mr. Mister, Amy Holland, Billy Vera, Jeff Baxter, and Jimmie Spheeris. Kathy continued her songwriting career through her twenties working with Kim Carnes, Philip Bailey, Rita Coolidge, Lauren Wood, and Valerie Carter. Kathy’s songs have been performed at Farm Aid, on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, MTV, and VH1.
At twenty five Kathy started investing in real estate after buying and renovating her first home in Malibu and finding it to be another form of self expression. Buying up beach shacks along the shoreline and renovating them with her own artistic style and design, Kathy soon owned and designed some of the most sought after homes in Malibu. The renovation of these homes is an art she continues to do.
1990 Kathy took her technical knowledge into the film industry advising on motion picture and television shows using recording equipment as props, working on over 100 features including "What's Love Got to Do With it?", "The Doors," and "Wayne's World." While working on set Kathy observed the problematic roll bar when filming televisions and invented "eVideo", the first computerized playback system displaying multiple images simultaneously and synching to cameras at 24 frames per second. "Beverly Hills 90210" used her system exclusively its first year in existence and has now become the industry standard.
With several CDs out as an instrumental artist Kathy continues to compose and produce music. But when Kathy picked up a camera that first time she felt an immediate connection and realized how much, like music, it all starts with the composition making this a natural progression in her career. Kathy's photography caught on immediately and is now part of many private collections as well as seen on TV and Film. Most recently her photograph "Heaven" is featured in Art of Elysium's coffee table book of the same title designed by Shephed Fairy and featuring other artists including Mick Rock, Herb Ritts, and Allen Ginsberg.