Nora the piano-playing cat is living the Hollywood life in Philadelphia.

Fresh from a performance of a concerto written just for her, the YouTube sensation gets fan mail by the bushel, has her own groupies and could be an addict if her owners ever forget to put away the catnip.

The 5-year-old tabby's latest cyber splash was Lithuanian conductor Mindaugas Piecaitis' first composition, featuring Nora's solo video performance in what he called his CATcerto. The performance with the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra in June has become a Web sensation at catcerto.com, with more than a million hits.

In all, nearly 20 million people have watched Nora play. She has made the television talk show circuit and has videos, two books, her own website (www.ravenswingstudio.com/NoraWeb/nora_home.html), a blog, three calendars, mugs, greeting cards, T-shirts and posters under her belt.

Nora is owned by piano teacher Betsy Alexander, 53, and her artist-photographer husband, Burnell Yow. They live in a house splashed with floor-to-ceiling color with five other cats: Gabby, Max, Rennie, Miro and Clara.

Alexander said Nora, a photogenic green-eyed shelter cat, has been a diva as long as she's known her. In fact, the day they found each other, at a Cherry Hill, N.J., shelter, there was a sign on her cage that said ``bossy.'' She doesn't like other cats.

Nora has an agent, her own photographer and an entourage. But she isn't into bling (make that collars) and she doesn't like riding in a car -- even a limo -- or a plane.

``She loves visitors. She is a very gracious performer and she feels indebted to her public,'' Alexander said in a telephone interview from her home.

Nora doesn't play just any piano. It's a Yamaha C5 Disklavier -- a Lamborghini of a piano, Alexander calls it.

Most of her performances come when someone else is playing the restored, turn-of-the-century Briggs piano next to the Yamaha.

``She plays in rhythm and on key,'' said Alexander, who teaches piano, guitar, voice and composition. ``She plays in the same area of the keyboard as the person on the other piano and when the student stops, she stops. More often than not, she is in the same octave as the student. Sometimes she plays loudly, softly, quickly, slowly.''

A music teacher in Japan wrote to say Nora had superb technique and she used the cat as an example to her students on how to strike the keys. Nora releases the key instead of pounding it, Alexander explained.

Nora purrs when she plays. And when she dances, it is in circles on top of the grand piano. When she was young, she chased her reflection so long she would get dizzy and fall off the piano, Alexander said.

These days when she gets dizzy, she just changes direction. She does have one little problem, though.

``She loves to eat. She will eat as much as she possibly can. She's not picky either -- fried chicken or filet mignon. She's like a little bowling ball, just roly-poly, like a seal,'' Alexander said.

Her owner is putting the finishing touches on a gift book, Nora the Piano Cat's Guide to Living the Purr-fect Life. There are offers from magazines, cat toy manufacturers and fellow musicians. And Alexander has been swamped by cat owners who want her to teach their cats how to play.

Nora has gotten thousands of e-mails and letters from all over the world. She is constantly asked for her autograph -- or paw-tograph, as Alexander calls it.

``It's wonderful mail,'' she said. ``One woman who runs a music camp wrote and said her 13-year-old daughter had quit piano lessons but when she saw Nora, she started up again.''

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