Biography
Nikki was born on the southside of Chicago to German Jewish immigrant parents. She grew up in the Evanston school district part of Skokie - proud to be an "Okie from Skokie".She started writing songs at age 7 - was classically trained in piano, voice and music theory by Max Krealoff. From 9-11 she sang at organizations banquet dinners. She had an offer from Chess records when she had just turned 14. She won the Chicago's Everything Music Guide Songwriting contest in 1985. She had a poem included in poetry.com's 2000 milleneum anthology of poets of the twentieth century. She recorded her cd NIKKI NASH has STICKY CASH in a double wide off a dirt road in unincorporated Bunnell, FL - north central nowhere….with armadillos, gopher tortoises, snakes and a great blue heron and a barn owl sharing the property with her and her producer/publisher. There was also a wonderful red tailed hawk and egrets and bluebirds and hummingbirds and woodpeckers and mockingbirds that loved to sing along with the songs….a mile away was a Dead Lake fish camp with alligators and manatees swimming round and eagles and osprey nesting ……now they've driven with their pets back to california…..still making music and loving life….two doors down is a wonderful horse and roosters crowing…..and a continuously blooming navel orange tree in the backyard and a mockingbird that sings along here, too! Awesome country comfort in the city!
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