I'm Katarina Lomis.

I'm an independent artist# in Miami and I graduated from M in December of 2023.

I studied biochemistry and nutrition.# Then I worked in a cancer research lab at the Miller School of Medicine and now I am leaving# my job this month to pursue my artist project, my artist career and music.

I was labeling# thousands of tubes like singing to myself and I was like oh my goodness what am I doing like# like oh my gosh anyone could be labeling tubes right now and so I I it was almost a moment of# like frustration but I like set up my phone and I sang 9 to5 by Dolly Parton.

I was like, "Oh, this# is so funny."

Like, it's like just so ironic.

So, I'm going to I redownloaded Instagram and I posted# it.

And then out of curiosity that same night and I saw that it had 200 likes.

And at that moment,# having been offline for so long, 200 seemed crazy to me.

Like, I couldn't imagine what 200 people in# a room looked like.

And then I just continued.

I I didn't there was no part of me that thought that# I was gonna be doing this forever, like that I was going to be doing it as long as I did.

But I# just stayed consistent just in the beginning.

It was passion that drove me.

And then after like# the first couple of videos started going viral, maybe 3 or 4 months in, I was like, "Wow, like# I could really I could do this and I could I could go all in."

It's a mixture of jazz and# musical theater, pop and some elements of folk, sometimes elements of rap.

Um, it's definitely# a genre blend, and sometimes people get confused because they're like, "What?

I don't know how# to classify this genre."

But it's definitely an exploration.

I feel like each song is it# taps into different aspects of one of those and or multiple.

And yeah, it's sometimes very# fast, very wordy.

A lot of focus on the lyricism is something that I really admire.

So I try to# encapsulate that in my songs.

Each one is very different.

My my most known ones so far are a song# I wrote called Mr.

Adams, The Ladies of the Opera, and Ladies Room.

And all three are very different# from each other.

The song The Ladies of the Opera, I posted a video of me singing that.

And it went# semiviral.

It was at I believe like 5 million views on Instagram and it like did a similar# number on Tik Tok and there was an animator and he animated the video of me playing the guitar# and I was just fascinated.

I couldn't believe that he had animated that.

I was just blown away.# He's so talented and it was just a collaboration found through just social media.

I feel like it's# all been a big experiment to figure out what's true to me, but also what what people are really# enjoying listening to.

And yeah, as long as I'm enjoying creating, I feel like that's just a good# a good guide for what I should continue to do.