Nakia Interviewed On Spinner.com

Here is a great interview with Nakia from Spinner’s SXSW coverage. Enjoy! Resident Austin rocker Nakia owes his career to the SXSW city. Shortly after visiting Austin for the first time for SXSW in 2001, the Alabama native (then residing in Chicago) instantly fell in love and permanently moved there several months later. Never looking [...]

The Athens Blur Magazine Reviews Nakia’s Water To Wine

He’s been touted as one of Austin’s best vocalists, but even Austin can’t hold back a Texas-sized talent like Nakia for too much longer.

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 [...]

Nakia Named One Of Austin’s Fortunate 500 By Statesman

Recently, the Austin-American Statesman published a list of their Fortunate 500. The list was sectioned off to include everything from Food, Nightlife, Education, Movies, and of course… Music – which Nakia’s album, Water To Wine, was “fortunate” enough to be chosen to be listed among some of Austin’s finest musicians and music-related business folks. Here’s [...]

KGSR Is Playing Water To Wine! Keep Your Requests Coming In

From Nakia’s Notes 07/22/09… Hi there! Great news… KGSR has been playing “Water To Wine!” Please take a moment and call 512-390-KGSR to request it. They are also taking requests via Twitter. You may follow them:@KGSR and make sure to follow me: @nakia too! Read this entire edition of Nakia’s Notes by clicking here.

No Depression Reviews Nakia’s Water To Wine

May Day brings a great new review from the esteemed, No Depression. Here’s an excerpt: Soul music. With its categories and subcategories – from northern and neo to country and deep – it can be a tough concept to pin down. You might want to rely on a variation of that classic method for identifying [...]

Twangville: Nakia A Tremendous Talent

Another great review of the album just in today from Twangville! Here’s an excerpt: Southern soul is a special thing. Alternatively inspirational and sinful, it is always engaging. Exhibit A is Austin soulman Nakia’s debut release. The Austin soulman book-ends his debut full release with “Choose Your Poison,” a down and dirty ode to guilty [...]

Nakia’s Notes: Record Release This Saturday At Jovita’s

Howdy folks… Nakia here. I just sent out the latest edition of Nakia’s Notes and it’s all about my record release party taking place this Saturday night at Jovita’s. Here’s a quick sampling… I won’t lie. There’s lots of places to see me and the band coming up soon, but today I would like to [...]

New Review From Austin.com

And the press keeps rolling in! This time from the website, Austin.com. Here’s a sampling of what they had to say… In turning water to wine, Jesus took what is already a valuable, nourishing resource and transformed it to something—while maybe not as necessary—something better. Let’s just run with that allegory and say that’s pretty [...]

Win Tickets & CDs To Nakia’s Record Release Party

The Austin Chronicle’s “Chrontourage” is giving away several pairs of tickets to Nakia’s record release party along with copies of the new CD to some lucky winners! Just visit this link and fill out the information now to win a pair of tickets and a copy of Water To Wine!

Austin-American Statesman Reviews Water To Wine

With the official street date of Nakia’s debut full-length, Water To Wine just last week, the Austin-American Statesman has reviewed the album for today’s Sunday edition. Alongside fellow Austin soul rockers, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, the Statesman concludes that the Austin soul scene is “in good shape.” Here’s a quick blurb from the [...]

Honest Tune Reviews Water To Wine

As suspected, more press is coming in this week in conjunction with the official street date of Water To Wine. See today’s earlier post with the Texas Music Magazine review. Hot off the presses is this bright review from Honest Tune, which we have posted below. More to come soon! Written by Bill Whiting 04/06/2009 [...]

Texas Music Magazine Reviews Water To Wine

The Spring 2009 issue of Texas Music Magazine just shipped to subscribers this week and should be arriving on your local newsstands any day now. Check out this fantastic review below from Editor, Richard Skanse, of Nakia’s debut album, Water To Wine. Pick up a copy today to read it and lots of other great [...]

Backline Show Interviews Nakia

Backline Show’s, Josh Sheperd, sat down with Nakia last week to talk post-SXSW recovery, Twitter, and the release of Nakia’s debut full-length album, Water To Wine. Check out the full interview here.

Nakia’s SXSW Day 2 Recap

Howdy folks! Nakia here. I will be taking some time each day before I head out to try and make sense of what happened the day/night before during SXSW. So, here’s a recap… I got a haircut at Bird’s from Sarah. She’s a frakkin’ nutjob and I love her to death! Go see her and [...]

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