Nakia Featured In XL’s “Songs Of The Heart”

Today, the Austin-American Stateman’s weekly publication, XLent, featured a great story by Michael Corcoran about musicians’ – from Austin and around the country – favorite love songs and what they mean to them. Nakia was asked by Michael to participate and was featured alongside such other acts as, Hayes Carll, Dierks Bentley, Raul Malo, Pat Green, and Ben Kweller. If you are out, pick up a copy of the weekly and see the great photo they ran of Nakia to go along with his featured response.

Here’s what Nakia had to say…

Nakia, hard workin’ soul singer whose new album with His Southern Cousins comes out in April:

“My first record as a child was a hand-me-down copy of ‘KISS Destroyer.’ My neighbor had ‘upgraded’ all his vinyl to 8-Track. It was only a matter of days until I learned the words to sing the band’s highest charting hit to date, ‘Beth.’ My babysitter was the first to hear my new talent, and she soon began ‘kidnapping’ me from my kindergarten classes to sing for her friends at the home economics building. Crooning to cheerleaders and future housewives, I knew that I was destined to sing forever.”

To read the whole story, click here.