(Fatso “knew she nailed it” the first time, Charlie writes ... One wrong move and Keyboard Cat could be lost forever. “I panicked, which was a good thing,” Charlie says with a warm ...

The first Keyboard Cat video - shot on VHS in 1984 then later digitized - features the musical talents of Schmidt's other cat, Fatso, who passed away more than 20 years ago. When Schmidt filmed ...

Schmidt has performed at Street Music Week twice before but this year marks the first Keyboard Cat appearance. Schmidt adopted Skinny, named after Fatso’s sister, just before he and Bento flew ...

It should be noted that Bento was not the original Keyboard Cat. Schmidt filmed the first cat video in the mid-1980s with his feline Fatso. Fatso passed long before Keyboard Cat went viral in 2007 ...