Soirée: Nikki Forova

Soirée: Nikki Forova

Nikki Forova is an indie pop singer-songwriter known for her unique voice, piano-driven songwriting with whimsical, philosophical lyrics and sound-rich productions thriving on Nikki's arrangements of strings, accordion, erhu, trombone, dulcimer and synths woven in between drums, bass and piano. Her style has influences of singer-songwriter, folk, alternative and cinematic music. Nikki's following is in the West of United States and Europe.

Nikki's changing lifestyle makes her feel like a citizen of the world, a cosmopolitan. She was born in USSR to a family of accomplished theater actors. Being an average family, they couldn't afford the piano, so Nikki's mother took her to local kindergartens to practice classical piano after hours. When she was seven she got a black piano as a gift. This unearthed Nikki's gift for writing songs and composing. After the wall fell, Nikki moved to USA, where she lived for fifteen years. She received recognition through performances in the Los Angeles indie scene and her MTV appearance doing a duet with Vanessa Carlton, of a hit song “A Thousand Miles.”

Shortly after, Nikki co-produced her first album “Revving Wings.” It came to life as multi-colorful powerful musical work, a cross-over between singer-songwriter, eclectic and alternative rock genres. Upon its release in 2010, Nikki launched into a self-organized two year tour to Europe (co-touring with an American Idol finalist, Shaun Canon) and USA. Received with big emotions, tearful and happy, personal stories poured out of fans during the after-the-show hang outs. Press was comparing Nikki's delivery to that of Bjork and Imogen Heap. “Revving Wings” was remixed and remastered with Simon Heyworth (Erasure, Imogen Heap, Depeche Mode) and re-released in 2012.

Nikki's life made a surprising turn when a true love found her. She moved to Italy. Inspired by love and challenged to keep a life balance she wrote most of her upcoming album, "White Dandelions", there. After a year, she moved to Switzerland where she lives now and continued working on the production of White Dandelions by frequently flying to London. "White Dandelions" sound and lyrics reveals fullness of creative imagination and deep soulful warmth that capture human beauty, our life struggle, search for meaning and search for love. In the heart of Nikki's storytelling is the philosophy of beautiful and painful human experience that makes us all one and connected to each other. In her song "Supernova" Nikki puts two people in love and everyone's desire to be loved in a grand perspective of the Universe and human history on Earth.

Co-produced with two world-known London producers, Andreas Olsson (Mary J. Blige, Jason Mraz, Train) and Patrick Wood (Youtube wonder, Emily and The Woods).

In March 2013 Nikki launched on her self-organized White Dandelions US pre-release Tour. During Nikki’s tour Music Connection, national US industry magazine, wrote an outstanding review for her new album describing her music as “high-quality indie-pop... destined for the airwaves of NPR, there’s also crossover potential to pop and AAA radio formats. Her soaring tunes have a cinematic feel and would seem custom made for movie soundtracks.”

Music Connection continues, raving about her live performance in Los Angeles, “Forova’s voice is sweet and distinctive...The strings and brass add luscious layers to the well-crafted songs, separating them from similar acts in the genre. Nikki Forova kept the audience entranced with a whirlwind of songs, both high-flying and touching. With music that conveys a wide range of emotion, many listeners will find Nikki Forova instantly relatable.” The highlights of the review are the new songs “Supernova,” “Snapshots of Sky,” “White Dandelions,” “Raising the Blood” and “Skywriter,” a song from her debut album.

Nikki signed a Record Deal with German Indie Label, ZeitArt Records, in 2014. Currently, ZeitArt and Nikki are working on the release of White Dandelions in May 2015 in Germany and in October 2015 in Switzerland, as well as a European and US tours.


- Final winner of 2007 National MTV Duets: performed a duet with Grammy Nominee Vanessa Carlton
- 2010 & 2011 Independent Tour in Europe with Shaun Canon, an American Idol and USA: 116 shows
- Winner of 1996 National Vocal Performance Competition and National Dance Completion, Ukraine

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