Talk:Kina Grannis

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Use of First Name

This article consistantly refers to Grannis by her first name. This is problematic for two reasons. An encyclopedia would not address an artist in such a familiar way, and there is also another American musician/singer/songwriter who simply uses the name Kina. This could create undue confusion. I'm amending the article to give it a less chatty, familiar tone. The artists website refers to her as "Kina Grannis" as does her YouTube channel, she is known by her full name professionally. --HillbillyProfane (talk) 21:14, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Duly noted. I've made changes either to "Kina Grannis" or "Grannis". TimRoo (talk) 20:44, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you research the name Grannis in Greek, you will find there are quite a few listed in Greece, e.g., Alexandros Granis, Marios Granis, Konstantinos Granis, Antonis Granis, etc. So maybe she also is of Greek heritage? 121.222.114.161 (talk) 08:36, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Singles

I understand that concept of the single is changing, and that it no longer means the release of a song on some physical medium, but what should be the criteria for considering an artist's song a single? The songs listed in Kina's article under the singles heading, except for "Message From Your Heart," were never officially released as singles. However, a self-published single (at least on vinyl) has always counted as a single, so the case could be made that every song Kina ever released to the public in some form (including all those YouTube videos) is a single. I bring this up because the section in the article is lame. I'd like to remove everything there except "Message from Your Heart" but I don't know that I have a reasonable grounds for doing so. Anyone? Mitchell k dwyer (talk) 21:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. "Message from Your Heart" and "Valentine" remain in the singles listing. "Message" for reasons you point out, "Valentine" since it's received notable radio play as an free online single and is labeled as a single on KinaGrannis.com at the time of this post.

TimRoo (talk) 20:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]