bio:

Kat Sophia is an LA-based artist who fuses singer-songwriter sensibilities with indie pop. Through her music, she writes lyrics that explore the complex layers of love and emotional extremes through storytelling, and wants to put them to music that feels raw, whether that be through extremely crooked uses of indie and electronic sounds, or just her guitar.

Deeply embedded in her local music scene, Kat is currently learning production from and being mentored by a producer of artists including Halsey, Dominic Fike and Lil Nas X. She also covers major acts like Chappell Roan, Taylor Swift, and The Weeknd as a music journalist and photographer.

Her goal is to make music that makes you want to both cry and laugh, preferably at the same time. She also thinks it would be cool to perfect the art of knowing what season of the year it is through which fruits are on display at her local grocery store, but that seems harder.

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letter:

hi, i’m kat!

the daughter of an architect and an English teacher, writing and crafting my own worlds was always in my blood.

but music? that was all mine.

my entire life, my emotions have felt like they were louder than those around me, a burden built into me i didn’t choose.

the kindest person in school to me was my school librarian. i always felt like i had to alter my entire self to fit in, and she never judged me. we’d talk about how much we both loved the Dodgers, since i checked out every book on my idol, Jackie Robinson. after reading every book on Jackie, i then read every book on the Dodgers, then moved on to reading every single one of their books on baseball.

i gave her a Dodgers key chain when the school year ended, i was so sad to say goodbye.

i was on a softball team where nobody shared my skin color. i batted the most home runs in the league and ran the fastest on my team, yet consistently didn’t get chosen to play on the All Star Team. the one year i made it, i made silver, not gold, and i was benched the entire season.

later, my family almost lost their house, and i remember all my teammates getting couple dollar smoothies and me not being able to.

from then on, any time i was sad, felt alone, or that life was unbearable, i came up with thrifty ways to make my life beautiful in any way possible. i crafted with colored paper, checked out books and CDs from the library, and listened to my alarm clock radio and danced in my room, forever, until the pain no longer existed. i poured over liner notes in CDs, determined that if i figured out their emotions through their lyrics, i would be able to understand my own. i carried around a journal and doodled, then wrote stories and poems that then turned into songs. nobody understood me like music did.

i hope i can be those words and that music for someone someday.

this determination to make the best out of a bad scenario has shaped who i am today, and allowed me to pursue music from food service jobs i’ve worked over the years. my live show props i use today were made almost entirely for free, just by sheer will. i made my own website and, since i couldn't afford someone to make it for me, i learned coding so that i could make it myself. i’ve been able to see some of my favorite artists for free, by taking photos of them and writing articles for their teams (Taylor Swift, Beyonce, The 1975, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Lorde to name a few). now, i am able to live in LA and finally have the time to do music through my job, learning production and assisting a producer who’s worked with artists whose records i had hung up on my wall growing up. i think that if you turn your world a little sideways, it may be just the thing you’re looking for.

it has been a constant battle to pursue my dream, and there have been a slew of both emotional and environmental obstacles, but i built my own community who supported me and my dream, and now, i’m, hopefully, building my future.

when you’re alone, you are the one who has to live with your decisions and the life you’ve written for yourself. who do you want to be the person who wrote it?

it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of you, it matters what you think of yourself. so i think that you should write your own story, and never let somebody tell it for you.

i know for me, i wouldn't have it any other other way.

<3, kat

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p.s. status update: stuck in the liminal 🛝