About this episode

Lucciana Costa discusses her journey as a busy musician in Nashville and her collaborations in the music industry.

It’s not uncommon for a professional musician to juggle multiple gigs. Until they make it big or get a break playing in a band that does, there’s session jobs, maybe a songwriting contract, picking up live gigs in someone else’s band, slinging merch or someone, or even all that plus holding down a full-time job to pay the bills. Lucciana Costa can relate. She’s established herself as one in the current crop of up-and-coming singer-songwriters in Nashville. She’s half of the emerging and popular Americana duo King Margo. She plays in and with Gabe Lee’s band, even singing with Gabe and Rylie Bourne on a popular single in 2024 (“Long Time Ago”). Add to that time spent creating education curricula and writing a novel and you can see what we’re quick to call her the busiest, badass woman in Nashville. Lucciana sat in with Frank and Falls last week to talk about her musical background that runs from West Virginia to Ohio and Michigan before hitting Music City. We talked about her musical family and the lineage of talent that has culminated in her career. She told us how the King Margo collaboration with Rachel Coats and a lot more. Also in this episode, Frank opens a surprise gift…

People in this episode

Hosts: Francesca Folinazzo, Jason Falls

Guest: Lucciana Costa

Topics covered

• music industry
• singer-songwriters
• Nashville
• collaboration
• musical background

Keywords

• Lucciana Costa
• Nashville
• King Margo
• Gabe Lee
• singer-songwriter
• Americana
• music recommendations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: King Margo, Kentucky-based Pickin’ the Grinnin’

Places: Nashville, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan

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