Gio Navas Music
Gio is a Colombian-Italian Miami-based alt rock singer-songwriter who specializes in ekphrastic music inspired by her favorite books and anime/manga. She’s been uploading to her YouTube channel since 2009 and since has accrued nearly 20k subscribers, released 3 studio EPs, her first full length album The Monster that Kept Me. In addition, she’s cultivated a small audience with her artwork under the name @viinas_art. She has been a featured performer at several conventions including OtakuFest and Anime Expo as well as local venues. Though she has built her online following by posting acoustic original songs on YouTube, her official releases feature a heavier rock sound.
The Monster that Kept Me is now available!
Photo by Nate Takes
Upcoming Album: The Monster That Kept Me (2024)
THE MONSTER THAT KEPT ME IS AVAILABLE NOW!
album artwork by eerna
Ekphrastic Music
Gio’s music is largely inspired by her favorite books, anime, and manga. Her favorite thing to do is tap into a character’s head and write music from their perspective, about their internal and external journeys. See if you can connect any of her lyrics to a story you love. In addition to music, she is also a writer and artist. Her prose and artwork can be found in plenty of fan anthologies as well as online.
photo by Milo Carbol
THE BOOKISH SONGS COLLECTIVE
Gio Navas is a part of an international group of singer-songwriters who write original music based on books. Gio has contributed several songs to the collective for their Grishaverse album ‘Sinners & Saints’, Folk of the Air album ‘Under the Hill’, and their upcoming Hunger Games EP ‘In the Meadow’ as well as provided artwork for the Fourth Wing single ‘Death of Me’ by Victoria Carbol and Kendra Dantes and Folk of the Air singles ‘You Were A Wolf’ by Gio and ‘Sick Paradise’ by Giorg¡a.
Some of her songs with the collective include ‘Ready to Burn’(with Kendra Dantes), ‘You Were A Wolf’, ‘Wraith’, ‘Carved’ (feat. Victoria Carbol), and more!
Listen to the bookish songs collective and all their projects below:
Discography
album artwork by: Mauricio Duque / Gio Navas
Shadows & Smoke (2016) EP
Gio Navas’s first EP ‘Shadows & Smoke’ speaks of how stories are immortalized within their audience. This EP was inspired by stories like Legend, the Heroes of Olympus, Fullmetal Alchemist, and more.
Production, Audio Engineering, Mixing/Mastering by Lucero Productions.
album artwork by: Gio Navas
Makeshift (2022) - ACOUSTIC EP
‘Makeshift’ is a rustic, home-recorded EP of acoustic demos of some of Gio Navas’s studio recorded music. Songs like ‘Blue Flame’ off Polarity, ‘Wait For Me’ and ‘Loving Thieves’ off The Monster That Kept Me, and others in their rawest form.
album artwork by: Sarah Martinez
Starbound (2019) EP
Escapism in the form of music. Gio Navas’s second EP ‘Starbound’ draws inspiration from stories like RWBY, Noragami, Six of Crows, and more.
Additional Instrumentals by Kris Criado. MIDI Drums, Audio Engineering, Mixing/Mastering by Choice Blend Studio.
album artwork by: eerna
The Monster that Kept Me (2024)
Gio Navas’s very first full album featuring 11 full band arrangements of original songs inspired by Fate/Grand Order, Noragami, The Folk of the Air, and more. The Monster that Kept Me is themed after finding beauty in darkness and darkness in beauty.
Additional Instrumentals and production by Kris Criado and Tony Juan Pailos.
Additional drums by David Prosperi and Vinnie Henrico.
Audio Engineering, Mixing/Mastering, and additional production by Choice Blend Studio.
album artwork by: Lukrecia
Polarity (2021) EP
Gio Navas’s newest EP ‘Polarity’ illustrates the dichotomy of a heart, with songs inspired by stories like The Dark Artifices, My Hero Academia, Sound! Euphonium, and more.
Additional Instrumentals by Kris Criado. MIDI Drums, Audio Engineering, Mixing/Mastering by Choice Blend Studio.