Watch: Bay Area Artist Kayatta, City Of Santa Rosa Release New Song

SANTA ROSA, CA — Multiple Santa Rosa parks, landmarks, and even CityBus, are featured in this video for Bay Area hip-hop artist and poet Kayatta's new track about the City of Santa Rosa.

Kayatta's song, "Life Reimagined (I Wanna Know)," was released by the city of Santa Rosa in collaboration with Kimzin Creative, a local arts and equity consulting group. The new track is about the massive change the city is undergoing in the final phases of its general plan update.

Kimzin Creative produced the video and song with Kayatta and incorporated in-depth community feedback collected throughout the spring — redefining how the arts can be used as a tool for youth civic engagement.

Santa Rosa Forward is the program for the general plan update, and the song is part of a broader city effort to listen to and reach young people from all income levels, races, ethnicities, backgrounds and abilities so that their voices are better represented in the future of Santa Rosa, city officials said.

Watch the video here from the City of Santa Rosa’s YouTube page in English

Or here from the City of Santa Rosa’s YouTube page in English with Spanish subtitles

The song can also be heard on Out There Santa Rosa’s Soundcloud.

For more information about the general plan update, a document that will guide city development for the next two decades, go to santarosaforward.com/DraftGP. The webpage has upcoming meetings, surveys to take, and places to read and provide comments.