Before Kas could even write her name, she was inventing stories. Full of ideas, she’d ask her mom to write them out for her, so she could make books out of colorful construction paper and crayons, despite the obstacle of the English language for a four year old. She was also always making up little songs, performing them for her family in the living room, usually only in her underwear with a pink plastic guitar. 

Though she is now able to write out her ideas on her own and has added a bit more clothing to her performances, Kas’ interest in the creation of stories and music has remained. Her main focuses have become poetry and songwriting, with both forms of art revolving mostly around her exploration of love, grief, mental illness, the feminine experience, and the divine.

Her poetry is often free verse with imagery heavily focused on nature. She has always been inspired by the outside world. How nature can be so beautiful yet so dark and disturbing— often simultaneously– is something she will always find intriguing and desire to replicate in art. Visceral is the word that often surfaces when her work is described. 

When it comes to her music, Kas draws influence from all sorts of genres to create a sound that lands somewhere in the realm of indie-pop and folk. Most notably, she aims to pull from the simple honesty of folk music while not letting go of the punchiness that drives alternative rock. Often only accompanied by herself on guitar, she alternates between upbeat, bubbling chords and mesmerizing fingerstyle progressions in her songs. All of this is layered underneath a voice that can soothe as well as it can bite.