Katie Herzig is a singer and Grammy award nominated songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. Katie Herzig was born in California to a musical family. When she was one year old her family moved to Fort Collins, Colorado where she attended Rocky Mountain High School. In her senior year of high school, Herzig received an acoustic guitar from her father which prompted her to begin playing the instrument. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder where she majored in journalism with emphasis in broadcast production. In 2000, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism.