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NIKKI Z

After a period of relative silence, Nikki Z has swept into 2014 to claim the throne of pop music and has claimed the biggest fandom in the world.

Since her new single ‘One Night of Broken’ topped the 2014 charts, Nikki has been owning the spotlight and rolling out the fame carpet in front of her. Her feature on Jessie J’s “Bang Bang” quickly set the record for the third – largest first month download count of 2014. Billboard and Q magazines pronounced her as “the hottest female on the planet”, even before her latest single was released and topped the charts. However none of this would have happened if Beyoncé hadn’t offered to step down and support Nikki in her upcoming fame. We caught up with the pop sensation in our latest interview to find out how she’s feeling about becoming the next big queen.

First of all thank you for taking time out to talk to us and your incredible fandom, considering your busy schedule after being pronounced the Queen of Pop. Speaking of your fandom, how do you feel to have so many people supporting you and looking at you for inspiration, does it make you feel good or…?

From the bottom of my heart I’d like to say thank you to all these amazing people who have been through with me in and out of hard and rough times and supporting and not giving up on me, all the way. Not only do they make me feel good, they make me feel like I’m actually getting somewhere in life, it’s like they are the extra boost you need in order to succeed. Although some may claim I am the inspiration, they are wrong. To be honest if it wasn’t mainly for them, I wouldn’t have produced a new song or wouldn’t have got this far, so in the end they are the ones that should be looking in the mirror of inspiration, not me.

What would be your advice to any young and upcoming artists who would like to be a part of the world of music?

Do whatever you want to do. Be whoever you want to be. Don’t let anything hold you back or get in your way. Be yourself. Along the way there will be a lot of people who will criticize you – believe me it’s a scary world out there, but what you have to do is forget about them. This will be hard no doubt in that, however despite who they are, including family and friends, you have to focus on your needs and dreams and not theirs. Evidently there will also be many people who will support you – don’t let them pressurize you into doing something you don’t want but do let them help you. You get out what you put in, believe me you have to work damn hard to get where you want to be in life and it certainly will not be easy at all.

So who influenced you to pick up music, write songs and go on tour?

Before I could even think about becoming a worldwide international pop star, obviously like many new artists I didn’t really have a goal just a dream. I think the people who influenced me the most was probably my friends as they heard me sing before in school, although at this point I was very shy, anyway not getting into any of that (laughs) um I think the well yeah my friends influenced me most to start singing and really all my thanks and praises go to them. To write songs well I think it was more of an inspiration from situations not all good, there was definitely some bad times too, but getting back on track, um more of an inspiration rather than an influence of somebody else’s back. To go on tour was an influence from a bit of everywhere, for example, friends, family, fandoms, songs, other artists I’ve worked with etc.

Have you got any specific favourite songs on the album and are there any other artists you would like to possibly work with on future albums and chart toppers…?

 

My favourite song would most likely have to be m new single, ‘One Night of Broken’ by far. It’s not lively but it does have quite a few morals and I think that’s just inspirational to everyone including me. In the future I would like to hopefully work with Ed Sheeran, Cheryl Cole and maybe even a boy band like The Script or a girl band like Little Mix. 

 Omg, talking about the tour, you got any details on it and how was it to work with Jessie J and Taylor Swift?

 Omg working with them was AMAZING!! Never in a million years does anyone get this same opportunity that I got, felt to so special. They are both extremely lovely and I guess well it was definitely a dream come true. To be honest I’m still in shock myself even though it’s been a few months now. My tour…WOW that was an experience of a life time, just you know to be on stage and having fun and loving it and seeing the smile on the fans faces and WOW. Just incredible honestly. Could never forget the moment when I walked on that stage and felt the warmth of the screaming fans and my name being mentioned and yeahh' it was a great... great time. I think I’m just pretty glad that I got pushed and inspired to achieve my dream all the way and I really do owe it to everyone who played a part in my life at that time. And yes there are some details but I have to keep my mouth shut for that, maybe just maybe you will find out from a little birdy, but who knows…? (laughs)

 What’s next for you then, away from your music of course?

 Alongside everything like my tour and taking time out for family and friends, next to be honest I’m not really sure. Actually there is an album coming out, however that’s being kept zipped up. Maybe another tour, maybe in another country, who knows? Fingers crossed if this tour goes down well then yeah sure I’ll for sure do another sure maybe featuring some cheeky chums as a surprise, for not let’s just keep our fingers crossed and let nature take its course.

 Damn we are all out of time Nikki, it’s been the greatest pleasure speaking to you and I’m sure this won’t be the last, best of luck with your tour and hopefully an album release soon?

 Awhh that’s a shame was really getting into this, your welcome anyway hopefully next time we can do a game sort of thing like spin the bottle with another group or something and let’s keep our fingers crossed everything will go according to plan. Thank you anyway, was nice meeting you. So as she leaves the building, we wonder, will she go on to become the pop sensation she wants to be and will she remain as the queen of pop with her lovely and vivid attitude towards music? Who knows? We’ll find out next time she’s on, when we start to talk about other parts of her life…