An early YouTube musician whose acoustic performances and original songs created a direct connection with listeners.
For the feel of those early YouTube days, 'Breathe Honestly' still captures it. 'Chasing You' shows how that intimate approach carried into her original songs.
She was part of that first wave of musicians who built an audience through YouTube in the early 2000s, just her and a guitar in those early videos. Songs like 'Chasing You' and 'Breathe Honestly' have that straightforward arrangement where her voice carries everything. That copyright lawsuit over 'In Your Arms' being used in a TV show, resolved in her favor, shows how those early internet musicians had to navigate new territory.
She started sharing acoustic performances on YouTube, then released her debut album 'Sincerely, Kina' in 2004. Later albums like 'Stairwells' in 2009 and 'In Between' in 2018 followed, and she's worked with artists including Ingrid Michaelson and Jason Mraz.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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