Kina Grannis

build me up buttercup

hi friends,

thought i'd close the month out with something a little lighter <3 

i'm still a bit behind on life, so no video yet, but my cover of "build me up buttercup" is now out in all the places so i wanted to make sure you were the first to know. singing this song was an absolute delight :)

jesse and i are escaping to nature this weekend with some dear friends (don't you worry, we  tested for covid--negatives all around!). really looking forward to a little ...

vocal meditation and a check in

hi friends <3

i was digging through some of the files i've been working on in the past month and came across another one of my stream-of-consciousness vocal meditations, "a major," that i thought i'd share. so here that is :) 

the past few weeks since finding out we lost the pregnancy have been quite a rollercoaster, though i'm happy to report i now feel like a human again and am vaguely remembering what it is to be me and live life. hooray! the clouds are lifting and the ...

New Video: When The Smoke Clears

very belatedly, here's the video for "when the smoke clears" <3

the outpouring of love and support since i posted about my infertility journey last week has been incredible and overwhelming. thank you all so much for your understanding and compassion <3 

our new song “when the smoke clears” attempts to encapsulate some of the pain as well as some of the lessons jesse and i have experienced these past years. the constant grappling with time (and the perceived loss of...

kina diaries: infertility

infertility is rough. like really rough. i first shared about my experience a year ago. since then it has become an even bigger part of my day-to-day existence, but at some point i stopped knowing how to talk about it and now it feels like i've been going through the world mute.⁣

i have wanted to be a mom since i was a kid. family is sacred to me. even more so than my dream to pursue music, my dream to have a family has always been the most near to my heart. i know there are many mean...

new song: when the smoke clears (with imaginary future)

hello sweet humans i can hardly believe are real,

writing today to share with you all a special duet with jesse that has just come out today. it's called "when the smoke clears". apologies in advance that the embedded video is a mere one-minute clip, but you you can listen to it in its entirety here! https://ffm.to/whenthesmokeclears

we will be sharing a little video with this soon, along with your mp3 downl...

a hello, a song, a coffee date <3

hello wonderful humans,

my goodness what a time we find ourselves in. so much to feel, so much to learn, so much to do, and yet so much we still cannot do given the state of the world. these are such trying times in so many ways. important times, too. i hope you are managing to stay safe, healthy, and centered as best you can.

i come to you today with a bit of music and an invitation.

New Song: "It's Hard To Be Human"

she's here! so happy to introduce you to the second song off the new album, "it's hard to be human". i'll let her do the talking from here. hope you get along alright :)

sending immense amounts of love and gratitude to you all. you all are truly amazing 😭

xoxoxoxo

kina

p.s. song download here! 

Coffee Date Hangout This Week!

Hi there,

May is upon us! How did we get here? Time seems to be both blowing by and moving at a snail's pace for me these past few months. The days have felt long, but the weeks, light-speed. Very odd. 

Anyway. Our May Coffee Date Hangout will be going down this Thursday at 11am PST! (Follow the link to see when that is in your local time zone.) Very excited to delve into all sorts of m...

New Video: Souvenirs (Acoustic)

hello lovely people of kg records <3

here's a little acoustic version of "souvenirs" for you all.

i've been hearing that the songs i wrote during and about my time in jakarta have started to make sense on a more personal level for people lately--and it really is strange how applicable these songs feel to the current times we're in. recently i’ve been reflecting on that period of my life and the lessons i learned there, and it's been a helpful reminder that even in times like ...

livestream today!

hello all! a little reminder that i'll be live today from 2-4pm pst on facebook and youtube! can't wait to spend some time with everyone <3 

send in any questions and let me know what songs you want to hear in the comments :)

see you soon!

kina

livestream next weekend!

hello <3

times are still very weird, indeed, so i thought it might be nice to huddle together again in the safety and comfort of another virtual concert. those of you that tuned in last time demonstrated some incredible feats of patience as we struggled through technical difficulty after technical difficulty. i plan on trying to make your life a little easier this time... but i probably shouldn't make any promises.

i'll be going live from both my 2020-04-19 23:25:23 +0000 UTC View Post

New Song: "Love Anyway" (Happy Release Day!!)

Happy release day, KG Records Family!!

Release days will always be colored slightly with dread and anxiety and insecurity, but the undercurrent of joy that a little song that found its way to me now gets to stretch its wings and find its way into the world and into your hands will always win out over those other feelings in the end :)

One of my favorite moments so far today was when I looked up the song on Spotify and saw the little "© ℗ KG Records 2020" at the bottom of the pa...

NEW SONG AHHH! (also, hangout on thursday?)

omigoshomigoshomigosh.

this is the face of someone who has just set the release date for the first song off her new album. AHHH! no turning back now.

next tuesday, april 14th, my new song "love anyway" will be out in the world! to be honest, i find this fact a bit terrifying, but i've just been feeling like it's time to rip off the band-aid! now is not the time to be a little scaredy cat and withhold my songs out of fear, and this song in particular has been lurking in the corners...

livestream recording for you! <3

mymymy. the universe nearly conspired against us having a livestream at all today, but after 3 failed starts, some crazy technical and audio issues, a power outage and loss of wifi, and 40 minutes later.... we were up and running!! goodness. thank you to everyone who had the patience to wait that out with me. it wasn't the most ideal of beginnings, but the getting together and connecting and singing songs felt magical all the same. it was such a love-filled show!

due to all the technica...

today's the day! see you soon <3

hello :)

very very very much looking forward to spending some time together in just a few hours! 

if you're wondering when things kick off--the start time listed on the event page is in your local time zone, so click through to check :) the show will be 2 hours long, and if you can't tune in live, it'll be recorded and viewable after the fact!

tune in here! 

s...

New Video: "Sorry" (Throwback Session)

hello all, 

what a time we're currently experiencing. oof. i hope this message finds you safe and sound inside your respective homes. and if you're one of our doctors, nurses, grocery store workers, delivery folks, etc--goodness me thank you from ALL OF US for holding our world together right now! <3

here's a little video of my song "sorry". this song was a bonus track off my album elements, but it was recently brought to my attention it was unavailable on spotify in a lot...

Online Concert This Sunday <3

Hello dear humans of KG Records <3

Hi. Goodness. I'm not quite sure what to say. 

Times are hard and strange and if you're anything like me (or all 7.5 billion other humans on the planet) you've probably been feeling some feelings about it all. I myself have been a bit all over the place--up, down, hopeful, despondent, grateful, terrified. These are tricky waters to navigate. 

With so many of us in isolation right now, I thought this might be a beautiful time to...

iPhone Demo! "Frontlines" (Patron-Only)

ho hey, kg records family. i think i'm coming down with a flu perhaps, so as i'm writing this i feel a bit like i'm losing my mind. or like my brain is falling through my skull/my head is floating off my body. one of those. ANYWAY. if it gets/got weird, now you know why. just gonna let this post flow and hope you all can make some sense of it when it reaches your eyeballs.

i was digging through the vaults looking for something fun to share with you all, and i ended up going all the way ...

song/hangout/update :)

hello good humans of kg records <3

first things first. some of you may have noticed that i low-key released a song last week and never told anyone about it--oops! the song was an acoustic throwback/redo of my oldie "stars falling down".  it's available in all your music-listening places, but you can also download it for free from this post because you're special :)

i did intend to make a video to go along with this recording as i do all my releases, but my brain hasn't qui...

New Video + Koala Adoption!

Hello all!

First things first. I must apologize for 1. the out of focus wide shot in this video and 2. the makeup smudged all over my eyelids in my closeups  😂 Boy, I really dropped the ball on this one. I unfortunately didn't realize the error of my ways until mere hours ago, and as I'm headed out of town in in just a few hours' time, I thought, well, this will just have to do. I will do better in the future!!

Now that I've confessed my shortcomings--what a wonderful song...

Hangout Tomorrow!

Hey team!

Just a reminder that our monthly Coffee Date Hangout is tomorrow! Click through to the event page to see when it is in your local time zone. 

Looking forward to getting to spend some time together! I've already browsed your questions for the Q&A and--as usual--they're just so darn good. Can't wait to dig in. If you can't join us live, you can always watch the recording after t...

New Video and January Hangout!

Helloooooo.

It's 2020! Hi! Kicking off the year with a cover of Damien Rice's "Cannonball" :) Hope you enjoy it. Side note--for any Damien fans out there, have you seen my "Volcano" cover from back in the day? I was feeling nostalgic and looked it up... and that video is TWELVE YEARS OLD. I'm always a bit mortified all my old stuff still exists on the internet, but for some reason it feels wrong to erase the journey. If you wanna see baby Kina sing "Volcano", you can do so 2020-01-15 21:51:34 +0000 UTC View Post

New Video: The Weepies - Somebody Loved (Cover)

Hello and happy almost new year!! One more song for you before the year is out! I love The Weepies and this song so much--I hope you enjoy it, too :)

I want to send a GIANT thank you to all of you who made it out to the online concert this month!! It was so fun and love-filled and I had the best time with you all. It also felt so good to get to debut my new song "Quiet" with you!! Thank you for being so kind and supportive in that moment <3  If you missed it--you can 2019-12-30 19:40:54 +0000 UTC View Post

It's time!! Online Concert here we go!

Time to get cozy for the show! Grab some snacks and a blanket and head on over :) We'll be going live in about 30 minutes! Feel free to start posting and voting up questions you have for me during the show once you're there :) As always--if you can't tune in live, you can always tune in after the fact. 

See you soon!

xo

Kina

Online Concert in 2 Days!

Hello my wonderful KG Records family :) It's almost timeeeee!!!

Just wanted to send out one last reminder about (and formal invitation to) the online concert this weekend! It's going down this Sunday, Dec 15th at 1pm PT (you can click through on the link to see when that is in your time zone)! I will be playing old songs and new songs and covers and originals and telling stories and even debuting a brand new song from the upcoming album!! So excited to spend some time t...

New video: White Flag (and announcements!!)

Hiiiiii!

I come bearing a new cover and new news! I've been talking about it for the better part of a year now--but we're finally doing another online concert and I am so excited!! It'll be going down on December 15th--so mark your calendars! (Better yet, head to the show page and RSVP now to save your spot!) 

In other news--there's a big sale going on over at the KG merc...

Song Download: Lose You To Love Me

Helloooooo.

I teamed back up with my bud Kurt Hugo Schneider a couple weeks ago to work on a cover of "Lose You To Love Me" by Selena Gomez and now it's out in the world!! We had the best time and I am so excited with how it came out!! You can listen in all the normal places you go for your music needs, but you can also just download it right here from this message :) Kurt will be releasing the video we made sometime in the next week--keep an eye out!

In other news--I've got anoth...

Behind The Songs: All Along (Episode 10)

Hello friends!

I can't believe we've made it to the end of the Behind The Songs series! Thank you to all of you who have come along on this journey with me. I really didn't feel ready to move on from In The Waiting, but I feel like we've now given her a proper celebration and send off and you've allowed me to roll around in all my reminiscing, and now it's time to let her go! And that also means it's time to move forward and start giving some energy to my newer work, and boy is it about...

New Video! Behind The Songs Ep. 9: Souvenirs

Hello and happy Friday! Episode 9 of Behind The Songs is here!

I can't believe we're nearly done with this series! (And yet--it HAS been almost 5 months since I kicked it all off... so I guess I can believe it 😂) Thank you all SO MUCH for allowing me to go back and revisit all these songs before moving on to new things--it's meant the world to me and I feel so much more peace around coming to the close of this chapter.

Below is the short version of this episode and a little ti...

Online Hangout Today!

Just a quick reminder that our October Coffee Date Hangout is today :) Head over to this link to RSVP, find out when it is in your time zone, and start posting and voting up questions for the Q&A!

See you soon  :)

xo

Kina