Katisse

Saxophones. Flutes. Rhymes. D'Addario Performing Artist playing Rico Reeds [email protected]

[Katisse @katisse]

@JoeBiden #ab5 is an absolute disaster and KILLS careers. It was extremely poorly written and should NOT be the law of the land. You don’t use a sledge hammer to drive in a thumb tack.

[Katisse @katisse]

@Lilia_GarciaB you have no idea what you’re talking about with regard to AB5. In your interview you contradict yourself in one sentence! It’s so streamlined..but we need legal advice? https://t.co/h8TzOgKeaL

[KUSI News @KUSINews]

A petition to help independent music professionals secure exemptions under #AB5 has gotten more than 170,000 signatures.
But musician @AriHerstand says that doesn't seem to be enough for @LorenaSGonzalez who "only cares about what the unions want."
Full: https://t.co/a3l0l6OKNt

[Katisse @katisse]

@latimes story about how @LorenaSGonzalez #ab5 bill is killing our industries in Los Angeles and California. #AB5stories @GavinNewsom

[Katisse @katisse]

@boricuadelights @LorenaSGonzalez Some of them want to be considered employees and @Uber and @lyft want to keep classifying them as independent contractors. This bill’s collateral damage is the music industry. #AB5stories

[Katisse @katisse]

I’m happy for Uber drivers that #ab5 helps but freelance musicians are NOT uber drivers. You ever had such an amazing Uber driver in NYC that you flew him/her to LA to drive you to the airport? No. But that happens w musicians all the time.@LorenaSGonzalez https://t.co/DAn3yINk7g

[Katisse @katisse]

@LorenaSGonzalez musicians and music professionals are not being “reclassified and hired as employees under #ab5 ”, they are simply losing their work and livelihoods. @GavinNewsom #AB5stories https://t.co/c7tTEQLhHc

[Katisse @katisse]

https://t.co/pqV79BE1L9 thanks to @LorenaSGonzalez

[Katisse @katisse]

This is what’s happening to our industry because of #ab5 #AB5Works? https://t.co/pvmBTHTqvF #AB5stories @LorenaSGonzalez @GavinNewsom

[Katisse @katisse]

There are NO freelance musicians and music professionals that are helped by AB5, @LorenaSGonzalez. We are only hurt. You’re strangling our industry and causing work to leave the state. @GavinNewsom #ab5stories

[Katisse @katisse]

@LorenaSGonzalez @GavinNewsom I know recording sessions that literally had studio time booked that cancelled and went to Salt Lake City. And of course this....#AB5stories please have AB5 apply only to professions that need it!!

[Katisse @katisse]

Professional musicians have always been independent contractors. That’s what we do. We invented the term “gig”. We absolutely should be exempt from AB5. Its HURTING our industry @LorenaSGonzalez @GavinNewsom #ab5

[Katisse @katisse]

I’ve never had an employer in my life. Been a pro musician since I was 14. I do well. And AB5 is trying to dismantle this @LorenaSGonzalez @GavinNewsom #AB5stories #ab5

[Katisse @katisse]

@LorenaSGonzalez @GavinNewsom AB5 is crushing our music community. Work is leaving the state. We are NOT Uber drivers. We invented the “gig” and we were thriving before #AB5stories

[Katisse @katisse]

This is the 2nd movement (2 of 3) of my piece "Still Time" from my new record The Element In The Room (https://t.co/GuJXoincVW). It features Lyris Quartet and Chris Wabich. Hope you enjoy it. D'Addario Woodwind Artist. https://t.co/cZMwaXYWql

[Katisse @katisse]

On my new record (https://t.co/GuJXoincVW) i have a 3 movement piece called Still Time where i'm accompanied by the wonderful Lyris Quartet. This is the 1st of the three movements called Trails. https://t.co/r6EIIIsPwD

[Katisse @katisse]

The SEVENTH in-studio video from my new record The Element In The Room (https://t.co/GuJXoincVW) is a song i wrote on Dec 14th 2012, the day of the Sandy Hook shooting. It's called Hymn For Them.
---If you like it- please share.
D'Addario Woodwinds... https://t.co/IPWe2Pg4jJ

[Katisse @katisse]

My SIXTH in-studio video from my new record The Element In The Room (available here- https://t.co/GuJXoincVW) is a chilled out tune called Now I Let Go. Kind of in the style of James Taylor. Hope you enjoy! D'Addario Woodwind Artist.

If you dig... https://t.co/UexNi4Hfr5

[Katisse @katisse]

FOR MUSICIANS ONLY! (not really) This is the FIFTH in-studio video from my new record The Element In The Room which is available here- https://t.co/GuJXoincVW It's based on the standard If I Were A Bell and it's in... https://t.co/XQeopi0Rh8

[Katisse @katisse]

**Hold Still (feat. Natalie Cadet)**
This is the FOURTH in-studio video from the new Katisse record, The Element in the Room, available here- https://t.co/GuJXoincVW with liner notes available here-... https://t.co/tF08dIztdk