Nikki Hornsby
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nikki Hornsby |
| Born | Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Pop, Americana, country christian and blues |
| Occupation(s) | Singer songwriter, record producer, arranger, author, businesswoman, band leader |
| Instruments | vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1970s–present |
| Labels | CJP-NHRecords |
| Associated acts | Nikki Hornsby and The Rangers |
| Website | CJP-NHRecords website |
Nikki Hornsby (born in Long Beach, California growing up in Burke, Virginia) is an American pop, Americana, country and blues as a songwriter singer guitarist.
Nikki Hornsby was born in Long Beach, California, but grew up in Fairfax County of Northern Virginia where she earned her first guitar selling flower seeds in the countryside door to door at age ten. As a young teenager, Hornsby was contacted to perform as a solo singer and guitar artist representing her boarding school at social events, hospitals, and TV broadcasts. She was paid to perform by Gulf Corporation at the newly built Reston, VA community Lake Anne Reston square for a solo outdoor concert. After graduating Fairfax Hall Waynesboro, Virginia college preparatory school, Hornsby attended Sacred Heart and Belmont Abbey Colleges North Carolina full-time, while performing at The Sheraton Motel Lounge and other various local clubs. While majoring in Psychology and Theology she transferred to George Mason University in Virginia, Hornsby continued working accepting contracts for solo work as a singer and Musicians Union guitarist and as a stand up singer in a combo or duo with professional union musicians. Some of these union contracts were at Marriott Hotels & Resorts Key Bridges Hotel Lounge in Arlington, Virginia. Nikki Hornsby in the early 1970s was the first female singer-guitar player performing on the Auto Train that traveled from Lorton, VA to Sanford, FL and also was contracted as a stand up singer with a union piano player that she met on the auto train. She also worked with some other local union musicians in many clubs in Washington D.C. The piano player with singing duo worked the surrounding area, including Lucky Pierre's Lounge at L'Enfant Plaza, the Watergate complex in their main cocktail lounge as well as Nikki Hornsby was a solo guitarist singer at Washington DC finest waterside restaurants.
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