Nikki Hornsby - Additional Information

Additional Information

As a BMI associated songwriter, Hornsby has written over 300 songs, some of which have been used on radio, TV, and movies.

Her family association with the late Jimmy Van Heusen, Emmy and Oscar song writer for Frank Sinatra and others, influenced Hornsby at a very young age. Documents can be found in the Library of UCLA in Los Angeles CA holding Hornsby's first recordings and industry photos among the Van Heusen collection.

Hornsby achieved commercial airplay success years prior joined the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy's) end of 2006 as a voting member. The NARAS committee placed compositions of music from Hornsby's commercial charted "Just Wait" CD on the first ballot in 2007 in 8 different categories.

A European Military Community VIP base pass in June 2006 allowed access for Nikki while she was in Europe and she volunteered to play guitar and sing at the small Daenner Kaserne Chapel weekly for the military community church services on this military base in Germany. End of 2006 she was told there was a two-year waiting list and asked if she would have time to give music and vocal instructions at the community center at Vogelweh for military men and women and their families. She believed waiting that long was unacceptable and made the time with her CJP-NHRecords work to provide instructions with her very own Nikki Hornsby learning method.

2007 for appointments and networking during Grammy week, Hornsby had to take leave to travel alone to Los Angeles, CA but agreed to be back in a few days. She was injured in an international airplane in-flight accident February 8, 2007. She was unable to continue to write or professionally perform her music while recovering from these injuries for the next few years.

In 2008 Hornsby as sole owner of CJP-NHRecords she filed the company into corporation status in the State of CA USA towards completion of planned prior and new music projects.

2009 CJP-NHRecords released "Just Wait Instrumentally" which is the instrumental version of the "Just Wait" CD released in 2006.

Hornsby is the granddaughter of the Columbia Recording artist Dan Hornsby who was a A&R representative for Columbia/RCA in the early years, was a radio program director, Radio WSB DJ, a musician, a producer, a singer-songwriter, and a recording artist.

Dan Hornsby was the first recorded voice of "The Arkansas Traveler" song. He recorded many other songs like "Oh! Susanna", "Little Brown Jug" "Little Lisa Jane" and "Danny Boy". Hornsby never met her grandfather, who was inducted posthumously into the Atlanta Music Hall of Fame in 1986 for his lifetime of work in the music industry.