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Kina Clayton graduated from OBU in 1984 with a BME in Vocal-Choral with a piano minor. She currently teaches piano, choir, general, & performance music classes to K-5th grade students at the Oaklawn Visual & Performing Arts Magnet School (OVPA), and has been the musical director of many musical productions for the last ten years in the Hot Springs School District.

Kina taught her first 8 years in the Searcy & Pangburn School Districts, teaching K-12th grade music classes, and arranged many school-wide musical productions.  At Pangburn, she was the originator & director of the Tiger-Tones, a high school show choir ensemble, which sang a variety of music styles with choreographed dance, and traveled the state, performing for state & area conventions, with a special performance trip to Washington D.C.  As a professional educator, she is an active member of Ark.MEA/MENC, & AMEA/ASTA of the Arkansas Music Educators Association.  During 1996, Kina wrote and won several research grants which purchased 15 piano keyboards with computer, for her music classroom.  She is also a Certified MIE Yamaha Piano Keyboard/Technology Instructor.

For the last 20 years, she has taught private piano & voice to many students in both Arkansas & Texas.  Several of her students have been All State Chorus winners, recipients of full music scholarships, have won area & state talent contests, and/or area and state pageant titles. 

While attending both HSU & OBU, she traveled & performed with the Henderson Singers, and The Ouachi-Tones, throughout the United States and Mexico.

Kady Bell, Jady Joy and Brady Boy -- Kina’s Bichons pose for a photo op!

Kina Clayton lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas, with her husband, Danny, and her three babies, Brady Boy, Kady Bell, and Jady Joy. 

Kina not only teaches all styles of music, but she loves to perform it, herself, as well;  Especially, gospel, contemporary Christian, pop, country, Classical, Broadway, & jazz.  She has recorded 2 demos, one of which she composed and arranged all 11 songs.

As a music soloist, Kina has been asked to sing for many organizations, churches, & prominent people, such as: President Bill Clinton, AR Governor Mike Huckabee, and Prince Mandela of South Africa. In 1994, she was the featured singer in the television special, “How To Heal A Broken Heart”.

Kina’s area of expertise is voice production & techniques, performing skills for all styles of music, breath support, diction, phrasing, and song presentation. Lessons are taught out of her home in a relaxed, one on one environment.

Kina’s many accomplishments have included:

Miss Pike County Fair Queen (1979-80)

Miss Arkansas United Teenager – 2nd Runner-up, and Essay & Scholarship Winner

Arkansas State Fair Vocal Talent Winner (1980)

Recording Artist with 2 Albums (1990)

Music Video Artist (1993-94)

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