Niki King


Saturday 27th March 2010 ('4' Seasons Festival 2010)

Niki King was catapulted into the international spotlight in 2001, when she won the prestigious Perrier Jazz Vocalist of the Year award at the Cafe De Paris in London in 2001.

Since then she has released four critically acclaimed albums, as well as toured throughout Britain, Asia and Europe and headlined at the Blue Note in Tokyo and London's Ronnie Scott's.

King's prodigious talent meant she has been asked to open for Al Green and The Average White Band, as well as to collaborate with other great musicians, including revered writer/producer Bluey Maunick of Incognito.

She released her first album, New Day in 2002, on Maunick's Rice Records label and later featured as co-writer and performer on his album, Paradiso. Soon after this King's second album, Azure, was hailed by reviewers for her beautiful reworking of jazz classics.

Returning to her songwriting roots in 2004, King released her self-penned EP, Letting Go, which was immediately snapped up for an exclusive feature on Radio 2's Soul Solutions, as well as garnering five-star reviews in the press.

In 2006, King was voted Most Stylish Female at the Scottish Style Awards - the same year her album, Twelve O'Clock Tales, with guitarist Marcus Ford was released.

Currently, King is touring the highly successful Billie Holiday Songbook show, which she created to honour the jazz legend's work on the 50th anniversary of her untimely death.

The show - which was specially recorded by BBC Radio - has received rave reviews in the press since its inception and audience reaction to the work has been so overwhelming that King now plans to record a studio album of the songs.