1. Niykee Heaton was discovered through her YouTube channel after uploading acoustic guitar covers of contemporary hits, most notably hip hop songs, that went viral.
14 Facts About Niykee Heaton
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In 2014, Heaton released her debut single "Bad Intentions" and an extended play of the same name.
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Niykee Heaton embarked on her first headlining concert tour, The Bedroom Tour, in late 2015, and released the similarly titled mixtape, The Bedroom Tour Playlist, in March 2016.
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Nicolet Aleta Niykee Heaton was born on December 4,1994, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Geneva, Illinois, but she has noted she has a stronger connection to the time she spent in her mother's South Africa, though she spent little time there.
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Niykee Heaton gave herself vocal training by singing along to a Diana Ross greatest-hits CD, since her family couldn't financially support her musical education.
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Niykee Heaton has an older brother and had a sister Rachel, who beat liver cancer but died in 2007 at age 21 while waiting for a second liver transplant, whom she regularly notes taking inspiration from.
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In 2011, while still enrolled in high school, Niykee Heaton began uploading clips recorded in her bedroom on YouTube, including covers of contemporary hit songs along with occasional originals, for which she accompanied herself on acoustic guitar.
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In December 2012, her cover of Chief Keef's "Love Sosa" was featured on the website WorldStarHipHop and Niykee Heaton began meeting with record labels.
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Niykee Heaton graduated high school six months early and self-financed the recording of a host of her own songs, opting to take a step back and build "a catalog that we were proud of" with her manager Lauren, eventually signing with All Def Digital in 2014, a YouTube-based label founded by Steve Rifkind and Def Jam-founder Russell Simmons, in partnership with Capitol Records.
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Niykee Heaton topped Billboard's Next Big Sound chart on April 24,2014.
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On September 23,2014, Niykee Heaton released her debut extended play, Bad Intentions, digitally in the United States, topping the Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 chart and reaching the top ten in the US iTunes Store on the day of its release.
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Niykee Heaton later clarified, "We are now in a place where we can create music that I want to create, and we are no longer tied to the people that were holding me back", revealing she had started producing music herself as well.
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On March 18,2016, Niykee Heaton released The Bedroom Tour Playlist, a mixtape titled similarly to the tour, compiling remixed and remastered material she had shared online and debuted on live shows in previous months.
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Niykee Heaton married actor, model, personal trainer and entrepreneur Jeff Logan on July 14,2019, and gave birth to their first son on May 1,2020.