Katastrophe (aka Rocco Kayiatos) is a transgender San Francisco based rapper and producer. He's a seasoned vet on the mic and got his start competing in poetry slams in 1997. He became one of the first employees of Youth Speaks and performed in over 100 schools across the bay area. After winning the 1998 Youth Speaks Poetry Slam he went on tour with Sister Spit's Rambling Road Show. By the age of 19 Rocco had already toured his words across America, had been featured in a documentary and had poems on four compilation cd's.
Combining his love of music and language, he started rapping and making beats in 2002. He uses his poetic grasp of language to weave dense tales of lives lived outside the mainstreams of education, gender, and culture. He makes hip-hop that explodes with dangerous and ebullient passion. Crafting both dark anthems of anxiety and righteous rage, and sexy, flirtatious, booty-shaking pop/rap bangers. Katastrophe is a wonder - both authentic and audacious, emitting enough raw energy to electrify Las Vegas and enough earnest analysis to save you years of therapy. He was crowned Producer of the Year by Out Music Awards for his debute album Let's Fuck, Then Talk About My Problems. Kayiatos has since released a second album entitled Fault, Lies and Faultlines and his third and best full length release, The Worst Amazing is set for release in October on 307 Knox Records.
In 2008 he wrote, produced and directed a multimedia show, called HomeMade SuperHero, that debuted to a sold out house and a standing ovation. He later toured pieces of that work across the Us. He has toured the US and Europe several times and continues to travel to support his releases. He is a feature in the documentary films Poetic License and Pick up the Mic. His video for the song "The Life" was on MTV networks LOGO top ten click list for 12 weeks. His music has helped soundtrack The Showtime Network's The L Word, as well as several short films. Kayiatos is the subject of a forthcoming biopic called The State of Katastrophe.
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