31 Facts About Nikki Hornsby

Nikki Hornsby has been active in the pop, Americana, country, and blues genres as a songwriter, singer, and guitarist.

Nikki Hornsby is a Broadcast Music, Inc associated songwriter and has written over 1000 songs.

Nikki Hornsby was born in Long Beach, California and grew up in Burke, Fairfax County of Northern Virginia.

Nikki Hornsby is the granddaughter of Columbia Records artist, musician, singer-songwriter Dan Hornsby, and her family association with songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen influenced her at a young age.

Nikki Hornsby earned her first guitar at age ten by selling flower seeds door-to-door in the countryside.

Nikki Hornsby was paid to perform by Gulf Corporation at Lake Anne Reston square in Reston, Virginia for a solo outdoor concert.

Nikki Hornsby transferred to George Mason University in Northern Virginia and continued accepting contracts for solo work as a singer and Musicians Union Local Washington DC Chapter guitarist.

Nikki Hornsby worked as a stand-up singer in a combo or duo with other professional union musicians.

Nikki Hornsby was contracted as a stand-up singer with a union piano player that she met on the auto train.

Nikki Hornsby worked with some other local union musicians in clubs in Washington DC.

Nikki Hornsby played at many clubs in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, like Portofino Inn, Blue Moon Saloon, Holiday Inn, Red Onion, and Queensway Bay Hilton.

Nikki Hornsby from working music full time purchased a home and rental property in Lomita, California in 1980.

Later in the 1980s, Nikki Hornsby received a financial backing offer from a Lomita business owner, Ken Herbert, to record her original songs under her own record label CJP-NHRecords.

Shortly after, Nikki Hornsby marketed her music to commercial radio stations and trade magazines throughout Europe and in the United States.

Nikki Hornsby was nominated in the music and lyric composition category to the Board of Directors of the Academy of Country Music four different times in the 1990s.

Nikki Hornsby was nominated four different years for the honorable position on the ACM's Board of Directors.

In late 2004, Nikki Hornsby co-produced and arranged ten original songs on a CJP-NHRecords CD called Just Wait with Marty Rifkin.

Nikki Hornsby traveled to many countries in Europe from end of 2004 to 2007 test marketing Just Wait along with other original songs.

In 2006, Nikki Hornsby performed the break out song from Just Wait called "Money's Worth" at the International Automobile Associations Annual International Event in Frankfurt, Germany.

That same year, a commercial radio station, Radio Eurohertz in Eastern Germany near the Czech Republic border, invited Nikki Hornsby to perform a live three-hour show of her original music.

Nikki Hornsby was one of the VIP Hosts for Kaiserslautern, Germany's tourist center for the six games of the FIFA World Cup Soccer Championship held in 2006.

Nikki Hornsby appeared on the Spanish TV channel IB3 in April 2006.

Nikki Hornsby performed original songs, including songs she wrote in other languages like "Yo Tengo Un Amor", on commercial radio telecasts in Palma.

Nikki Hornsby did on-air live interviews at different radio stations like Una Radio, Radio Balear, Ultima Hora and Punto Radio in Spain that same week in April 2006.

Nikki Hornsby judged in US Air Force Idol Talent Contest.

Nikki Hornsby has voted over ten years for the Grammy Awards.

In 2007 during Grammy week, Nikki Hornsby travelled Los Angeles, California for appointments and networking.

Nikki Hornsby was injured in an international airplane in-flight accident February 8,2007.

Nikki Hornsby was unable to continue to write, record, or professionally perform her music afterwards and soon returned home to Los Angeles.

Nikki Hornsby acted as a judge for the California Country Music Awards and as a Music Industry Talent Judge for the National Colgate Talent Roundup from the 1990s until 2003.

Nikki Hornsby has been a consultant to the music industry since she obtained the business license in 1987 for the business she founded to consult exclusively to the music recording industry.