Video & Photos: Nakia And The Blues Grifters Live At KGSR’s Blues On The Green

For 20 years, KGSR has been bringing Austin the free summer concert series called Blues On The Green. It’s been played by some of the best. Last night, Nakia And The Blues Grifters got to perform at the closing night of the 20th season opening for none other than Grammy award-winner, Raul Malo. The park [...]

Nakia Live From KGSR SXSW Music Lounge Tracks

Back in March, when Nakia was asked to kick off the annual SXSW KGSR Music Lounge Broadcast from the Four Seasons in Austin, TX, KGSR captured the performance and now it’s available to you for free! Take a listen, download, and please Tweet It, Facebook It, Share It!!

Nakia Plays KGSR Fan Fare Friday Live From Threadgills

Nakia has been added to the lineup for this upcoming Friday’s annual KGSR Fan Fare Friday at Threadgill’s World Headquarters on Riverside Drive in Austin, TX. This will be Nakia’s second appearance at the annual fundraiser and fan drive. This appearance will feature Nakia’s brand new band. Check out a clip below of what to [...]

New Booking EPK Video

These clips are from the show I played Friday night at Lucky Lounge here in Austin. I decided to edit a bunch together in an effort to book some more gigs around town and other cities like Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, NOLA, OKC, and ______________

Nakia Interviewed Following His KGSR Four Seasons Performance

Here’s a quick clip of Nakia being interviewed by Lauren Petrowski of Fox 7 following his performance at KGSR’s annual SXSW broadcast from the Four Seasons.

Nakia Performing “Cold” From The Long Center On News 8 Austin

If you’re in the Austin area and have Time Warner Cable chances are you will be catching all/some of the News 8 Austin SXSW coverage of the festival this year. Andy Langer always puts together a fine series of performances from local, regional, and national acts. This year, they filmed Nakia performing his new song, [...]

Whitegrass In Kentucky

Hello and thanks for reading. Nakia here… Karla and I are in Lexington, KY. We’ve been invited to sing on the new Alejandro Escovedo record and so we’ll be here cutting backing vocals for the next few days. We arrived tonight and quickly settled into the amazing St. Claire Studio. It snowed before our arrival [...]

Remember This Christmas

After losing several loved ones close to me and seeing others around me losing family and friends close to them I got a bit down a few years back. When it really became evident that the war was going to continue keeping our troops away from their families that really put the straw on the [...]

Nakia Singing With Alejandro Escovedo At Austin’s Continental Club

Hey everybody! Nakia here… Back in September, I posted a story about Alejandro Escovedo inviting me to sing with him at the recent Buick MacKane reunion show at Hole In The Wall. In that post I talked about bumping into Al at this year’s HAAM Benefit Day performance at Whole Foods. That day he mentioned [...]

Goodbye Daddy – I love you.

This morning, I got a call that the I had been trying to prepare myself for… My father, Vincent Reynoso – “Taco” to anyone who know him – passed away at 5:44AM in the Birmingham, AL VA Hospital. He was 60 years old. I would say that he “lost his battle” with pancreatic cancer, but [...]

Nakia Sings With Alejandro Escovedo & Buick MacKane

Hi folks! Nakia here. About a week ago I saw Alejandro Escovedo in an amazing early morning performance at Whole Foods in support of HAAM Benefit Day. It was phenomenal for sure. Afterward, I said hello and out of the blue, Al says, “When you gonna come sing with us?” to which I quickly replied, [...]

Nakia Tackles Health & Fitness

A note from Nakia… Hello everyone! I wanted to take a moment to tell you about something new going on in my life. Recently, my Father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For those of you who know much about cancer, you know it sucks, but pancreatic cancer is up there pretty high on the level [...]

Video: Nakia Live At 2009 Austin Music Awards

If you missed it then we can only tell you it was like a religious experience. Here’s a recap from the Austin Chronicle. This video will hopefully give you some insight, but seriously, it was outta sight! Here’s Nakia & The Fresh Up Girls singing the Ray Charles classic, “Yes, Indeed!” with Suzanna Choffel, Ruthie [...]