Kina Grannis

kina diaries: i have a niece!!

hi friends!

i had big plans to send out a kina diary and schedule our coffee date over the weekend, and then i got a call from my sister with the exciting news that her baby was on the way! we immediately hit the road friday afternoon, made it in time for her grand entrance late that night, and have been up here ever since with the whole family soaking in this magical time with our newest (and cutest) member. she's my new favorite baby bird :) everyone is healthy and happy and my sister misa i...

New Release: Lonesome

Oh my goodness, it's release day! I've been so excited to share this new song and music video with you all. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for making this possible. Thank you for allowing me the time to explore this song, to really pour myself into production and mixing and dreaming up ideas, for giving me the ability to bring those ideas to life, to drive out to the desert and have an adventure and create this video for you all. 

I wanted to share one of my favorite ways to immerse myself...

New Video: The Good Side (Troye Sivan Cover)

Hi everyone <3

Every once in a while I hear a song and immediately feel compelled to cover it, and this was one of those. I loved it from the first listen and really enjoyed getting to make it my own. Hope you enjoy my rendition :)

I'm up in San Francisco this weekend for a special mother/daughter trip with my mom and sisters! My sisters and I realized we hadn't spend dedicated time with one parent at a time since childhood, so we started this idea last year with a father/daughter wee...

You've Got (Voice)Mail

Just a little hello/thank you voice memo from me. Click through to Patreon to listen :)

...And if you don't feel like doing that, the gist is: what a wonderful month it was, the online show was THE BEST (and thank you to all who made it out!), GIANT welcome to all our new KG Record Family members (and please introduce yourself in the comments--i want to know who you are!), and a reminder to those of you who just signed up in order to attend the online concert--don't forget to cancel your membe...

😭❤️🙏🏻

rolled over and took this picture right after finishing the online concert. i am so filled to the brim with love and joy and gratitude! thank you all for joining in and co-creating such an incredible experience with me. that. was. the. best.

if you missed the concert live you can watch the recording here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/y19i7pgl

thank you thank you thank you. can’t get over this. let’s do t...

Live Online Concert Link!

Hello friends and family and Kinerds and brand new KG Records members!

The time is nearly upon us! I'm so excited :)

Below is your secret link to the show. Click the link to go to the show page where you can 1. verify what time the show starts in your time zone and 2. start posting questions for the Q&A portion of the show. Out of respect to your fellow ticket-holders, please refrain from posting this link around the internet. (Though if you have a friend in need and you feel like be...

Exclusive Sneak Peek of the new song!!

what am i dooooinggggggggg.

sending you this, i suppose.

*runs and hides*

see ya later,

xo

kina

Kina Diaries: Blissed out on a Friday night

It’s Friday night. The sunset is blowing my mind (it does every night, but still). I am wearing the coziest hoodie under the coziest blanket. I’m sipping peppermint tea and hard at work mixing the next KG Records original release “Lonesome”. YOU exist.

Is this real life? 😭❤️

Sending love to you all. Have fun and be safe this weekend!

xo
Kina

New Song: "I Found You" KG + Imaginary Future

Hello!

I'm so happy to introduce you to our new song, “I Found You”! Jesse and I were inspired by my sister’s fairy tale of a love story with her now husband (and MY now brother-in-law 🎉), Chris. The magic and joy and depth that sprang from their meeting has been one of the most beautiful and amazing things to witness, and we wanted to honor that with this song and video.

On New Year’s Day, we celebrated their partnership with one of the most heart-warming, tear-inducing, love...

Online Concert! (Taking requests!)

Hello and happy new year!

Many of you have been asking for an online show for a while now and I think it's high time I make it happen! What a better way to kick off the new year than spend some time singing songs, telling stories, and hanging out with my online family?

I wanted you all to be the first to know because 1. you're special (duh), and 2.  I'm looking to you to help me create the set list! Use the comments below to start shouting out your song requests :)

I've decide...

A little video message from me to you...

Hello! Before the new year is upon us I wanted to thank you once again for being a part of KG Records. This has been one of the most fun, fulfilling, and meaningful years for me musically and I truly believe that is all thanks to you. I am so grateful to have you along on this journey with me and I can't wait for all the fun we'll have together in 2018. Thank you for all of the love and support!

Sending giant hugs to you all <3

xo

Kina

New Video & Patreon Fee Update

Hey friends,

Here's a new video for you--my cover of "When You Come Back Down" by Nickel Creek! I first covered this song on morning television some 7 years ago (surrounded by some OG KG Street Teamers--a very special moment), and a handful of you have been requesting it ever since. (Sorry it took me so long--and thanks for the reminders!) I think this is such a beautiful song with such a lovely message and I hope you enjoy it!

In other news--an update on the new (and since redacted) Pat...

New Video: Let It Snow (and a discussion!)

Dear, dear, sweet KG Records Family,

Merry Happy everyone! Thought it was time to throw a little holiday cheer into the mix. :)

Here are some things I am excited for this month:

- getting a christmas tree and filling it with tiny woodland creatures

- peppermint hot chocolate with whipped cream

- singing with my sisters

- playing pictionary and guesstures with my family 

- christmas soup (i know this means nothing to you but it means EVERYTHING to the gr...

kina diaries: in the waiting

i have caught myself in the harder moments in life wishing i could fast forward. that i could skip ahead to a time when things felt easier or happier, to a time when some hurt has passed or that thing i've been hoping for has finally happened. when i catch myself in these moments and i manage to take a step back, it suddenly becomes clear what a sad thing that would be--to wish away all the in between and delete thousands of moments between now and then. 

in my 32 years hanging out on thi...

New Release: "In The Waiting"

Hi everyone :)

I am so happy to introduce you to the next song off the new album, "In The Waiting." Like usual, I'm going to let it sit with you for a bit before I go into talking about it on my end. I've added the lyrics below in case anyone is interested!

For those of you in the states, I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving yesterday filled with friends and family and lots of love! And to ALL of you, know that you are among the top on my list of things I am most grateful for. Thought of...

kina diaries: pillow talk

hello from a very comfy kina!
i'm in bed. not sleepy. inspired. excited :)

last week jesse and i shot the video for the next song off the new album (out next friday!) and it was such a reminder of what i keep finding to be the case with my art--it's not up to me. it's not MINE. yes, it comes through me, and i feel it, and i influence it, and i can dream up how i want it to be, but when it comes down to it, i can't ever force a song/production idea/video concept into being. it feels so ...

10 Years On YouTube!?

Oh how the time has flown. Today marks 10 years since the first video I ever uploaded to YouTube and I decided to make a little video reflecting on the journey so far! The fact that YouTube led me to all of YOU is just about the coolest thing in the world. Thanks for being such a huge part of my world ♡

xo
Kina

New Video: Gangsta's Paradise (Coolio Cover)

friends hello!

writing you this message is a welcome distraction from the fact that i'm playing a show tonight and i'm NERVOUS HELP. this seems to be the case every time i play a show out of the context of a tour when i'm in show mode, and historically it has always turned out to be a great thing that i booked myself a show because i end up having the best time ever and so much fun... BUT until the moment that is confirmed i am filled with dread and regret and nerves. so lalala i'm just going ...

kina diaries: a brain can only hold so many things

hi friends.

i keep trying to write sentences for you but it's just not working out so great tonight! instead, here are some random, unrelated thoughts:

- nope can't even do that

the gist is i'm feeling inspired and overwhelmed and i've been working so hard this past week on music and it feels so good but also makes my brain break a little and i just want to give you guys the best music i can make and also so much more and if only there were 10 of me then i could actually stay on to...

New Video: Blowin' In The Wind (Bob Dylan Cover)

Hello everyone! Happy Friday! (Or Saturday, depending on which corner of our world you live on.)

Here's my cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind." I really loved singing this one. There's something very special about covering a song, if you really give yourself to the process, where you feel like you get to embody it and know it on a more personal level, as if part of it came through you. I didn't know this song well before I dove into it, but what a beautiful and powerful little song I ha...

The First Song I Ever Wrote (Video Archive)

AH WE DID IT!!! I SURVIVED! thanks to everyone that hung out live and was so nice about it :) 

the first 9 minutes are me talking about how i fell in love with singing and unexpectedly wrote a song one day after teaching myself guitar for about a month, plus a lot of disclaimers about how NOT great the song it... haha

then the feed cuts out for a LONG time (mega technical difficulties), reappears at around 16:30, at which point i (reluctantly) play the song.

as promised, lyric...

New Video: At Last - Etta James Cover

happy friday, friends :)

so i don't know if this is a thing for anyone else, but there seem to be maybe 5 or so random songs from throughout my life that periodically pop into my head and get very stuck there--often, and for no reason. they aren't even necessarily my favorite songs, and they are songs i haven't listened to in probably 10+ years. because they're around in my mind so often, they've come to feel like good friends of mine :) (jesse may feel differently since he's the one that has ...

New Song & Video: Souvenirs

OH BOY.

All morning it's felt like I am on one side of a very large wall and on the other side is me sharing this song with you. I think the mental barrier comes from it holding so much meaning to me on so many levels that 1. I have no idea how to coherently talk about it yet and 2. even if I did, I would be afraid I would not do an adequate job of expressing all these things to you. 

So today I'm going to let the song and video speak for themselves. 

That said, I do want...

New Video: Yellow (Coldplay) & and update!

friends, friends, friends,

hello! how are you? as i write this, i'm about 8 hours away from heading to an airport to venture to montana for the first time for a wedding! super excited (though i have not yet packed, or slept, but we'll get to that...).

i so loved covering "yellow". it was a special song to me back in my high school days, and one that always felt untouchable somehow. singing it around the house these past few days as i prepared for this shoot felt so good. it reminded me h...

New Video: We'll Be Okay - Imaginary Future & Me

Hello, friends!

For some of you this song goes way back to Jesse's first EP (The Imaginary EP), and for some of you this song might be brand new! Either way, I have a little tale to tell.

Some time ago, Jesse wrote this song, recorded a rough demo, and emailed it to me without a word in the body of the email. This was still super early in Jesse's writing career, so a song from him was a BIG deal and a BIG surprise. I opened the email, probably cried a bit, had the idea to add some harmon...

Bonus Video: Young Dumb & Broke (Khalid Cover)

Hey KG Records Family <3

Got a little bonus video for you today! No one's getting charged and EVERYONE is getting a free MP3, because why not :)

It's a cover of "Young Dumb and Broke" by an artist named Khalid. Thanks to an effort by Pepsi to champion new music and bring artists together, Khalid and I got to hang out and talk music a bit before I got to the task of covering his song. He was super sweet and passionate about music and it was such a great time :)

In other news, I'v...

kina diaries: hi :)

this is me sitting on a plane thinking of how grateful i am for all of you and feeling all warm and fuzzy to have you all in my life. i've said it a million times and i'll say it again, thank you for giving so much purpose and meaning to what i do. thank you for allowing me to do what i do. thank you for believing in me. thank you for being people i get to share the experience of living with. thank you for supporting me, encouraging me, and keeping me company. thank you for being amazing and tha...

New Video: Issues (Julia Michaels Cover)

hi friends!!

i intended to have a bit more time to sit with this post and share some thoughts today, but today has gone a little crazy so far and now i'm left with just a few minutes to type this out before heading out to a wedding (more accurately: heading out to sit in traffic for an hour and a half). jesse and i just finished up a lovely birthday lunch with my dad, and then (thanks to a text from a friend), realized that jesse's phone, unbeknownst to us, had been live-streaming for who know...

New Video: Fields Of Gold

Hello and happy Friday from a grove of redwood trees somewhere in Northern California! I'm here for the weekend with my sisters and dad for a first-ever (since early childhood) father daughter trip. We're well-prepared, with lots banana bread (courtesy of Mama G) and tea and a guitar and Settler's of Catan--it's gonna be a great time :) Last night when we got in we stood outside and stared up at the milky way galaxy and reflected on how insane and beautiful life is.  

In any case, I'm so ...

New Song & Video: Beth

Dear friends,

It is with utmost joy that I get to introduce you to "Beth," the second original release through you, KG Records. 

This song is a very personal, special song to me, though I suppose all my songs are ;) But this one in particular feels especially personal as it is somewhat a letter to someone I hold very dear. It's a song about the walls we knowingly and unknowingly place between ourselves and the world, and what it feels like to be on the other side of those walls, lon...