Kina Grannis - Country Angel

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Kina Kasuya Grannis is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. She is half Japanese and half European American. Grannis grew up at California, and it was here where her love for music began. She started with piano and violin at first. By the age of 15, she started teaching herself the guitar and it was this instrument with which she fell in love.

In 2006, Grannis recorded and self-released 2 albums, “One more in the Attic” and “In Memory of the Singing Bridge”. In 2007, she recorded “Ours To Keep” and the song was featured regularly on General Hospital and was in an episode of a mini-series “Samurai Girl” in 2008. On November 2007, she created her youtube account and began posting videos of her songs online. Her first video “Message From Your Heart” was entered into Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest. She won the contest which landed her a contract with Interscope Record. On Jan 2009, Grannis announced that she was leaving Interscope Record to be an independent artist.

Stairwells was released on Feb 2010, and included many original songs already appearing on youtube. The album debuted at #139 on the Billboard 200, #5 on the Billboard Top Internet Albums chart and many more. On March 2010, her single “Valentine” was played on BBC Radio 2, the most popular radio station in the UK. The music video itself has been viewed over 13 million times on youtube.

My first time of Kina Grannis was through David Choi. Her duets with David “By My Side” & “My Time with You” caught my attention. Her vocal is rather soft country I must say and that was what attracted me the most. Plus a few days after, one of my friends shared the song “Valentine” on facebook, and I started to fell in love more with this talented angel.

Here are some of her best songs to share:

“Valentine” – Must watch! The music video is simply awesome!

“Stars Falling Down” – The song was featured in the mini web-series “When It Counts” in a remix version, released by Wong Fu productions recently.

“In Your Arms” – This song was played at wherever McDonalds and Starbucks I went to.

“Stay Just A Little” – One of my favourites. It was in my MP3’s replay mode for quite a while.

“Message From Your Heart” – Kina’s first video.

Kina was also featured in some of the mini web-series and short on youtube, as Judy in “Funemployed” and in “The Last” (ft. Harry Shum Jr.) both released by Wong Fu Productions in 2011 & 2012. And if you’re wondering what albums she has released in the past few years, here they are together with links to each songs on youtube.

Sincerely, Me (2005) – Try, People, Another Day

One More In the Attic (2006) – Living In Dreams, Running Away

Stairwells (2010) – Valentine, Stay Just A Little, Together, Mr. Sun, Stars Falling Down, The One You Say Goodnight To

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