Quotes by Kina Grannis

About Kina Grannis:

Kina Kasuya Grannis is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. She is half Japanese and half European American.[citation needed] Grannis was the winner of the 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.
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I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly ...

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I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

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I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

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Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

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If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

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The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

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I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

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My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

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I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off.

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My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

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I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness.

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I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

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I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

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I'm kind of feeling like I don't mind being open with the random details of my life, like I'm at a coffee shop or my toe hurts or something, but obviously other more personal areas of life where I will just never really go there.

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In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

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My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

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Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.

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Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

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The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

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In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most o...

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Author Bio

  • NameKina Grannis
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornAugust 4, 1985
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer-songwriter; Composer