Interview: Kaitlin Sweeney is Turning Delaware Around, One Concert at a Time

She Brought the Law and the Law Won

Kaitlin Sweeney was meant for the stage; born for it. "I first began singing and dancing when I was really young, there wasn't a night in my house that I wasn't putting on a show. I'm sure it got quite annoying after a while" she says, laughing. "I was always writing songs when I was a kid. So my parents started me on piano lessons when I was very young. It didn't last long, however, because I never practiced what my teacher gave me. I always just wrote my own songs instead." Although Kaitlin knew from a very early age that she was destined for rockstardum, it wasn't until high school that people actually took her seriously about it. "In high school, I wrote a lot of songs, but I never really performed them. I sang in the high school show choirs, and did some musical plays. But other than that, I really stuck to cheerleading - at that point, that was sort of my life. But once I got to college I knew that performing--singing and dancing--was what I really wanted to do."

Kaitlin graduated from the University of Delaware in 2004, where she majored in English. She designed the choreography for several dance teams, was a sister in the Sigma Kappa sorority and, most importantly, sang with the Deltones, UDel's premiere women's a capella group. "Singing with the Deltones definitely changed my whole perspective on things," Kaitlin explains, "I realized I got a good response from the crowd, and people were always telling me that they enjoyed my performances and wanted them recorded." Shortly after joining the Deltones, Kaitlin was approached by DJ Tyas, who lived on Long Island at the time. "He started producing techno music that I wrote to and sang to", Kaitlin says. The songs were getting airtime in clubs around NYC, Philly and Delaware, and "that's I think when I decided that's what I needed to do. Not techno, but just recording in general."