page_title: Nikki Hornsby
section_title: 2007 Forward Additional information
hierarchical_section_title: Nikki Hornsby / 2007 Forward Additional information
caption_attribution_description: Dan Hornsby
context_page_description: Nikki Hornsby is an American musician. A songwriter, singer, and guitarist, she has been active in the pop, Americana, country, and blues genres.
context_section_description: Nikki Hornsby is a BMI Broadcast Music, Inc. associated songwriter. This organization www.bmi.com has a listing of all professional writers through their site for verification. Nikki Hornsby herself has written over 300 songs, some of which have been used on radio, TV, and in movies. Many of 34 recordings listed online iTunes, YouTube and only 2 where Hornsby wrote only the music and lyrics written by Weinberg in a co writing collaboration like a prior radio commercial for the "Tile World" business in Southern CA. The Positive Christian country songs were released on the CJP-NHRecords "Reaching Out" CD.
  Her family association with Jimmy Van Heusen, Emmy and Oscar songwriter for Frank Sinatra and others, influenced Hornsby at a very young age. Documents can be found in the Library of UCLA UCLA_Library in Los Angeles CA holding Hornsby's first recordings and industry photos among the Jimmy Van Heusen collection.
  Hornsby achieved commercial airplay success many years prior to joining the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy's) at the 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 Kaiserslautern Germany Daenner Kaserne Chapel weekly for the military community church services for this Kaiserslautern Military Community largest USA European base. This was at the end of 2006 she was asked by phone to report to the Vogelweh Community Center main office at Vogelweh Facility of the Kaiserslautern Military Community. The administrator at that time said there was a two-year waiting list for music & vocal instructions and asked Nikki Hornsby to help at the community center for USA military men, women in service and their families. She believed waiting that long was unacceptable for USA Military overseas and made the time in her project scheduling to provide one to one instructions with her own Nikki Hornsby beginning acoustic guitar and vocal 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, record, or professionally perform her music afterwards and soon returned home to Los Angeles CA as injuries forced her to avoid future live appearances.
  2009 CJP-NHRecords released "Just Wait Instrumentally" which is the instrumental version of the "Just Wait" CD released in 2006. 2010–2014 Video Support of Nikki Hornsby songs found on YouTube. DVDs made available through CJP-NHRecords.com that maintains current business license to this day.
  2014–2015 CJP-NHRecords released three singles of 1 pop dance uptempo and 2 pop orchestral of Hornsby music and lyrics from collaborative work with international talents. Singles found on iTunes and eStores worldwide. These three Hornsby pop singles were listed first ballot 2014 in the arrangement, instruments and vocal category of the 57th Grammy TV awards process for 2015.
  Nikki Hornsby has carried on the Hornsby music family tradition as the granddaughter of the famous Columbia Records artist Dan Hornsby who was also a A&R representative for Columbia/RCA in Atlanta GA in the early years, was a radio program director, Radio WSB DJ, a professional musician, a producer engineer for Columbia and a singer-songwriter, a recording artist with many 78 speed vinyl full disc recordings.
  Dan Hornsby was the first recorded voice of "The Arkansas Traveler" song. He recorded many other songs like "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", "Oh! Susanna", "Little Brown Jug", "Little Liza Jane"  and "Oh Danny Boy". Nikki Hornsby never met her grandfather, who was inducted posthumously into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame in 1986 for his lifetime of work in the music industry. The Grammy 
caption: Nikki Hornsby's grandfather – Dan Hornsby
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