Biography
Eugenia Gail Kight, 17 January c. 1966, Dublin, Georgia, USA. Born into a musical family, as a small child Kight sang in church and by her mid-teenage years was singing professionally. Early in her career, she sang country music, appearing on TNN’s Nashville Now in 1989. In the mid-90s, through hearing Koko Taylor, she made the shift to the blues, which proved to be her metier. Although Kight’s singing style is firmly rooted in the past, her take on the blues connects readily with contemporary audiences. In the late 90s and early 00s, Kight gigged extensively in Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and adjacent states, playing everywhere from private parties to festivals by way of club dates. She has also performed at the annual W.C. Handy Awards Show, and was herself nominated in 2004 for three awards. Billed as ‘The Georgia Songbird’, Kight has a rich and powerful singing voice and delivers the lyrics of her songs with verve and...
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