Nakia

A soulful, blues-influenced singer, Nakia Reynoso, aka Nakia, is an Austin, Texas-based musician who first came to the public's attention as a contestant on the 2011 season of The Voice. Coached by Cee Lo Green while on the show, Nakia finished in seventh place and issued the 2013 EP Drown in the Crimson Tide, followed by 2018's full-length Blues Grifter. Born in 1975 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Nakia grew up in Fort Payne, Alabama, where he developed a love of blues, R&B, and soul music. After high school, he spent time in Chicago, before settling in Austin in 2002. There, ...