Today we’d like to introduce you to KC Katalbas.
Hi KC, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I grew up in Los Angeles surrounded by my big extended Filipino family and the mountains. I’m grateful to have grown up in LA being surrounded by so much culture and life and excitement. It was in that environment I learned how much I loved writing songs and telling stories. I started sharing my music on YouTube when I was 13 and haven’t stopped since.
I’ve made so many close friendships through YouTube and by meeting other songwriters online. It’s been amazing to grow up and grow my artistic craft with so many people in the last decade of being in that space online. And that’s pretty much what I still do! I still share my music primarily with a broad online audience, except now I’m in Nashville and have been for the last 6 years.
I write about my own journey leaving LA, leaving my old church, leaving relationships behind, but also my journey coming into new things like science, this city, and people.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle-free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
The early 20s is a tough time for everybody cause everything is changing so fast, and that was probably the worst time for me. I had the culture shock of moving from LA to Nashville and a lot of my relationships became fractured or cut off entirely as I was figuring out my relationship with the kind of Christianity I had grown up with.
I also went through so many different jobs around that time and was just totally exhausted from trying to do everything on my own. That kind of tough stuff is what made me do a lot of writing in that time though. There were a lot of situations and feelings I wrote my way out of and am still writing my way out of.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I write songs, mostly indie pop/folk songs, about my life and also about science. I fell in love with science as a kid with a telescope looking up at the stars. Whenever I write, there always seems to be scientific language or stories woven in somehow. Sometimes it’s intentional and sometimes it just happens.
Science is just so beautiful and the language surrounding it is so beautiful. I love when art and music get to showcase that so I try to show that however, I can.
Is there anything else you’d like to share with our readers?
Science is so beautiful! The moon the stars! the plants the cells! It is all free to look at and observe and enjoy. Don’t forget to look up and look around.
Contact Info:
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: kckatalbas.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kckatalbas
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNdC48md19x0thA_rv2a8g
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3gr3k5T9V97x7ozSZ7DC1s?si=phv60GSHTviPuTPCfGp2kQ&dl_branch=1
Image Credits
James Lock and Sam Lindsey
