Biography
Louis Cato is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer. Born on 3 May 1985 in Lisbon, Portugal, he grew up in Albemarle, North Carolina, and studied for two semesters at Berklee College of Music.
Cato joined Stay Human as a musician when The Late Show with Stephen Colbert began in 2015 and became bandleader of the house band (later renamed the Late Show Band) in 2022. He has released solo albums and worked with artists including Marcus Miller, Snarky Puppy and Jon Batiste.
He appears as self (archive footage, uncredited) in the 2023 documentary American Symphony.
