Nikki Hornsby

Nikki Hornsby is an American musician who has been active in the pop, Americana, country, and blues genres as a songwriter, singer, and guitarist. Hornsby grew up in Fairfax County of Northern Virginia. She is the granddaughter of Dan Hornsby, who was a songwriter, musician, recording artist, talent scout, engineer and producer for Columbia Records RCA Victor. Her family association with songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen influenced her when young. Hornsby inherited her grandfather's archive of early Americana music and has worked to document his legacy, including that he discovered many songwriter-singers, like Bessie Smith, for Columbia Records. and hit the independent country charts in America. She was named Female Singer of the Year in Scandinavia in 1988. By 1991, for larger concert venue purposes she formed Nikki Hornsby and the Rangers.

In the early 1990s, she routinely sang at concerts on the pier in Redondo Beach and the Alpine Village in Torrance, California. In August 1991, she drew the largest crowd of the summer at Redondo Beach's summer Concert in the Park series. Nikki Hornsby and the Rangers played the Concert in the Park series again in August 1993 and July 1994.

In the 1980s, she recorded as a solo singer-songwriter musician with Steve Duncan, JayDee Maness, and John Jorgenson from The Desert Rose Band; Jack Daniels (Hwy 101 Band); and guitarist Al Bruno.

2000–2006

In August 2001, Nikki Hornsby sang at the Cliffie Stone Memorial Jamboree in Santa Clarita, California. Hornsby also acted as a judge for a number of California country music competitions and as a judge of talent for the Colgate Talent Contests.

2006–present Hornsby appeared on the Spanish TV channel IB3 in April 2006. She also performed on commercial radio telecasts in Palma. In 2009, CJP-NHRecords released Just Wait Instrumentally (the instrumental version of the 2006 album Just Wait). In 2014, CJP-NHRecords released Hornsby's original song "Just Lovin' You" that was covered by the singer Zita Sabon as "Ich Liebe Dich" (translated into German). In 2011 Hornsby was nominated for Billboard's Women in Music award.

Discography

year album or song title comments 1986 Let Me Take You on a Dream (NH#1088) 1986 One Way Ticket to a Heart Break (NH#3088) 1987 Hungry For Love (NH#4088) 1987 Hot Talking Big Shot (NH#2088) 1988 Shoestring & A Prayer (NH#5089) 1989 Career Video Highlights VHS / DVD 1989 Wake Me Up (NH#6089) 1996 Nikki Hornsby Live Performance VHS / DVD 1999 Cassette of Originals CJP-NHRecords, NH# 1007C 2001 Reaching Out (NH#2007) CJP-NHRecords 2005 Previous Releases (NH#7121) also known as Original Releases CJP-NHRecords 2006 Just Wait (NH#7106) CJP-NHRecords 2009 Just Wait Instrumentally (NH#7119) CJP-NHRecords 2014 Ich Liebe Dich (NH#701320144) CJP-NHRecords Nikki Hornsby music and lyrics translated into German covered by Zita Sabon. 2014 Just Lovin' You (NH#70132014) CJP-NHRecords 2014 Music Is The Only Thing (NH#702020141) CJP-NHRecords 2020 Red Roses On The Floor (NH#9163200202) CJP-NHRecords 2020 Yo Tengo Un Amor (NH#9163200203) CJP-NHRecords