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中 文 名 基纳.格兰尼斯
外 文 名 Kina Grannis
别 名 Kina Kasuya Grannis
国 籍 美国
星 座 狮子座
血 型 A型
身 高 168cm
体 重 53kg
出 生 地 美国德克萨斯州
出生日期 1985年8月4日
职 业 歌手,作曲人
经纪公司 One Haven (2010–present),Independent (2009)
代表作品 专辑《Stairwells》
语 言 英语(母语),法语,德语
艺人资料
Kina Grannis,1985年8月4日出生,是一位美国吉他手和作曲人。Kina Grannis是一位多国后裔混血儿, 她也是超级碗Doritos Crash奖的获得者。作为拥有日本、爱尔兰、法国、荷兰、威尔士和苏格兰多国血统的混血女孩,Kina Grannis似乎也继承了这些民族特有的音乐天份。Kina Grannis在该项比赛中成功的事迹曾被著名的网络新闻网站OCRegister和华尔街日报报道过。Kina Grannis在2008年也曾为电影《Glass City》创作过配乐歌曲。《Stairwells》是Kina Grannis 2010年的新专辑,这张专辑2月23日刚被添加到iTunes Store,就立刻引来了众多乐迷的关注。这是她的首张正式全长专辑,许多歌曲较之前Mini专辑的版本有较大的改动。
2011年11月发行单曲《The One You Say Goodnight To》。
2013年8月发行单曲《Royals》。10月发行单曲《The Keeper》。
2014年5月发行录音室专辑《Elements》。
2015年5月发行的单曲《Earned It》。8月发行的单曲《I Was Made For Loving You / Please Don't Say You Love Me》和《What Do You Mean?》。
2016年6月在脸书上发布新歌《Graceland》。
Life and career
Kina Kasuya Grannis (born August 4, 1985) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. Grannis was the winner of the 2008 Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest. As a result of winning, she earned a recording contract with Interscope Records and had her music video played during the commercials of Super Bowl XLII on February 3, 2008. She won Best Web-Born Artist at the 2011 MTV O Music Awards.
Her progress in the competition was covered in ‘The Orange County Register’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’. Grannis has also been featured on ‘FOX News Los Angeles’, ‘Good Day L.A. and Yahoo!’.
Album ‘Stairwells’ was released on February 23, 2010 and included many original songs already appearing on YouTube.On March 13, 2010, her single "Valentine" was played by Paul Gambaccini on BBC Radio 2, a popular radio station in the UK.
On November 3, 2011, Grannis released a stop-motion music video for the single In Your Arms, using 288,000 Jelly Belly jelly beans. It took about 2 years to complete the project.The video accumulated over 1 million views within the first three days.It now has over 10.6 million views.In April 2011, Grannis launched her first world tour. She performed in the eastern regions of Canada and in the eastern and southern regions of the United States. She continued in May through the northwest region of North America which included stops in Vancouver British Columbia and Los Angeles. Shows in Europe and southeast Asia followed into the fall of 2011.
Elements was released on May 6, 2014 and was produced by Matt Hales, aka Aqualung.Starting in November 2013, Kina began ramping up for the forthcoming album with the launch of "Kina Mondays," which promised a weekly video via Kina's YouTube channel.
In late 2014 and into 2015, Grannis launched her Elements tour in Europe and North America. In January 2015, she posted a survey on her Instagram to allow fans to vote for countries to be included in an upcoming tour in Southeast Asia.
Single “What Do You Mean?”and “I Was Made For Loving You / Please Don't Say You Love Me”was released on August 2015.
Single “Graceland”was revealed on Facebook on June 2016.