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 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, [...]

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 [...]

Outta My Head – Live At The Gibson Showroom, Grounded In Music Gala

Cindy Royal recently posted this video she shot of my performance at the Grounded In Music Gala over at the Gibson Showroom. This is the show that I played as a duo with Derek Morris on the keys. Patty Griffin was just moments away from performing when this was shot and I was so honored [...]

Remember This Christmas Slideshow! Merry Christmas!

Just a little slideshow featuring some of my family photos and things that are fun holiday memories for me! I hope you enjoy it! Don’t forget that you can download the song, Remember This Christmas, at http://nakia.net/christmas Ho! Ho! Ho! Nakia

News 8 Rooftop Performance of Remember This Christmas

I was asked to perform for this year’s holiday portion of the News 8 Austin Rooftop Series by Andy Langer. Of course I was honored. Mac and Derek and I went down to film it a few weeks ago. It started running on News 8 today if you have Time Warner. If you don’t or [...]

Nakia Performs Water To Wine On Fox 7′s Good Day Austin

This morning I woke up WAY earlier than normal to load up in the piano and make an appearance on Fox 7′s Good Day Austin to help promote the South Padre International Music Festival next weekend. Earlier that morning Tim Hayden, the festival’s producer, had been on talking about the festival and I was asked [...]

Video Interviews With Roxwel.com & Paste Magazine

During ACL I had time to do several interviews. Two of my favorites were Roxwel.com and Paste Magazine. Take a look… Nakia and His Southern Cousins – ACL Music Festival CoverageVideo Codes at www.roxwel.com I had the Fresh Up Girls with me for the Roxwel interview and they looked lovely, didn’t they? Paste’s Kevin Keller [...]

Nakia Was Sharon Jones’ “good man” At ACL Fest

PHOTOS Please note… If you use any of these photos, please attribute them to the folks who were kind enough to take them and post them. They are listed for each photo. Austin360.com posted a pic of Sharon & Nakia in their Day 2 Gallery. Image number 42 of 74. An amazing photo by deneyterio [...]

News 8 Rooftop Performance Of Water To Wine

In case you missed it when News 8 Austin broadcast it earlier this week, here is a link to the live performance that Mac and I did for their Rooftop series with Andy Langer. Nakia – Water To Wine – Live From The News 8 Rooftop

Little Red Rooster At Momo’s

Tonight’s show at Momo’s was, as usual, really great! Great band that played before us – Douglas Jay Boyd, and then we came on rockin’ the house to a lot of new faces. One familiar face happened to pop his head in the door early in the night. Lucky for us – and the audience [...]