Nina Kay Chatham, the daughter of an American Air Force pilot, was born just outside London, England, and thus began her gypsy-type lifestyle.

In a household with an older brother and sister who were professional musicians, music came naturally to Nina Kay.  At an early age she was astonishing audiences with her voice, her first television appearance was on a local show in Austin, Texas at the age of 10.  When she was 14 Nina Kay formed a rock band, appropriately named “Dawning”.  The groups she sang with over the next 10 years varied from hard rock to soul and even to cabaret music in Houston where she performed with The Mack and John Show.

It was in Houston that Nina Kay met and fell in love with country music as it began to mingle with the southern roots of rhythm and blues in artists like Reba Mc Entire, Bonnie Rait and K. T. Oslin. This was when she began to play the piano and write her own songs. In ’82, with a country album on the market she toured the southwest.  Based out of Scottsdale, Arizona Nina Kay enjoyed entertaining tourists at “The Grapevine” in old town Scottsdale, during the peak season for the next five years.  During the off-season she lived on the road or at sea.  Nina Kay wowed audiences on Princess, and Royal Caribbean cruises as well as in some of the finest hotels in Europe, from the northern tip of Sweden to the French Riviera.

Back in the states she was a favorite at many hotels across the southwest including Harrah’s At Lake Tahoe where she appeared regularly.  Nina Kay brings a little bit of all her experiences to the stage, particularly her many brushes with blues and jazz on the road.  While working in Arizona she formed a band called “The Kactus Kats”, which was truly a unique mixture of country and jazz artists to create an original sound.  One review labeled Nina Kay as a country-jazz singer and the label stuck.  After 6 years living out of the suitcase family brought Nina Kay back to Texas.  “Traveling and meeting people from all over the world is an enriching experience, but like Dorothy said “there’s no place like home” and I was ready to find home”, says Nina Kay, and so she did. 

In 1994 she married, Galvestonian, Steve Greenberg. “Now.... I’ve got sand between my toes ", says Nina,  “I have landed, God I love Galveston”…………….end of story…



Come and join the fun with Nina Kay,  please check our calendar for her next performance date. 

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