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Kina Grannis’ Secret Crazy Project: “In Your Arms”

Posted in Pics on November 3rd, 2011 by Jody – Be the first to comment

Kina Grannis

When I featured half-Japanese singer/songwriter Kina Grannis on the site back in August 2010, I mentioned that she had just started working on a “secret crazy project”, which Kina frequently referred to on Twitter as “the SCP”. Well, yesterday we finally got to see the result of her more-than-yearlong work on the SCP: the new music video for her latest single “In Your Arms”.

The video features Kina and 288,000 jelly beans painstakingly photographed in stop-motion animation. The effect is something along the lines of a Peter Gabriel video on steroids. Except with a really cute girl instead of some weird looking dude.

Check out the video, after the jump.

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Kina Grannis

Posted in Pics on August 12th, 2010 by Jody – 4 Comments

Kina Grannis

Kina Grannis is a singer/songwriter from Mission Viejo, California. She has a Japanese mother and a Caucasian father (a mix of English, Irish, French, Dutch, Welsh, and Scottish).

She first became famous for winning a Doritos-sponsored contest that featured her in a Super Bowl XLII ad on February 3, 2008. She had already self-released three albums by then, and she has since released a studio album this year entitled Stairwells. She went on tour earlier this year to promote the album, and she will continue touring this fall on the west coast as well as Texas and Florida.

She is currently working on a secret crazy project that she has devoted a lot of time to the past few weekends.

You might notice some biographical similarities with Marié Digby. Both are half-Japanese singer/songwriters from California that became very popular on YouTube after having created YouTube channels in 2007. Both were part of the Lilith Fair tour this summer. Both even posted similar song-recognizing tweets within a few hours of each other on Monday:

Kina is on Twitter @kinagrannis and has a website, a Facebook page, a MySpace page, and a YouTube channel.

Also check out this interview from 2008 and this recent interview.

Pictures and video (she looks especially cute in the second video) after the jump.

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