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Nominated
for "Female Singer-Songwriter of the Year 2002"
Started her musical career at age 14 in sunny South Africa.
Won Best Vocalist and Best Original Song in an
inter-high school competition.
Won Best Original Song at the Youth Harmony Festival.
Won Best Original Song in a National Songwriting Competition.
Appeared in several music videos, did many radio interviews and played
five nationwide tours.
Obtained #1 slot on local radio stations with her song White Sugar
and #4 slot with Colors.
Is slot a good word?
Moved to California in '95
Recorded an 8 song CD - Seems So Peculiar and received many great
reviews - hooray! (The Orange County register said "One of the best
local releases.")
Smart has opened for the likes of Alannah Myles,
The Stranglers, Bobby Caldwell, Vonda Shepard, Rita Coolidge, Graham
Parker and Joan Armatrading, and was asked to play at Andre Agassi's New
Year's Eve party.
Awards
Smart received honors in the 1995 Billboard
Songwriting Contest
Won the 1996 Spree Songwriting Competition in Nashville.
Won Best Female Vocalist in the 1996 Best of the Best, Music Scene
International Contest
Received certificate of achievement in the '97, '99 and 2001 Unisong
Contest
Finalist in the 1998 Demo Derby (Online Contest sponsored by Callner
Music)
Seems so Peculiar reached #4 on the MP3 charts
Nominated for Best Pop Song of the year 2001 for the JPFolks Awards
Nominated for "Female Singer/songwriter of the year 2002" by
JPFolks
CD Progress of Seems so Peculiar
Track 1 - recorded by "Mirka" in South Africa
Track 5 - aired on Dr. Laura's syndicated radio show
Track 5 - chosen for Jill Eikenberry's story on breast cancer
Track 3 - got to #4 on MP3 charts in 2001
Track 5 - used in the LA Times subscription campaign and played at Ralphs
supermarkets!!!!!!!!!
Track 3 - included in upcoming movie Murder Inside of Me
CD Progress of Untethered
Tracks 1, 7 and 8 - included in upcoming movie Murder
Inside of Me
Track 7 - chosen to be included on Venus Envy compilation CD
Track 8 - used as title track in short film Final Destiny
Track 6 - made it onto XM Radio's Unsigned Most Played list
Track 5 - won sixth place in JPFolks awards.
Smart also wrote the music for a documentary on a
youth shelter in Laguna Beach, CA.
Niki sang the IHOP commercial, an LA Times
commercial, the Irvine Spectrum TV commercial and Homemakers Furniture
commercial.
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