Nikki Hornsby (born in Long Beach, California, and raised in Burke, Virginia) is an American musician. A songwriter, singer, and guitarist, she has been active in the pop, Americana, country, and blues genres.

Nikki Hornsby[1] was born in Long Beach, California,[2] but grew up in Fairfax County of Northern Virginia where she earned her first guitar selling flower seeds in the countryside door to door at age ten.
As a young teenager, Hornsby was contacted to perform as a solo singer and guitar artist representing her boarding school at social events, hospitals, and TV broadcasts. She was paid to perform by Gulf Corporation at the newly built Reston, VA community Lake Anne Reston square for a solo outdoor concert. After graduating Fairfax Hall Waynesboro, Virginia college preparatory school, Hornsby attended Sacred Heart and Belmont Abbey Colleges North Carolina full-time, for three years while performing at The Sheraton Hotels and Resorts Lounge in Charlotte NC and other various local NC clubs. While majoring in Psychology and Theology she transferred to George Mason University in northern Virginia, but Hornsby continued working accepting contracts for solo work as a singer and Musicians Union Local Washington DC Chapter guitarist. She worked as a stand up singer in a combo or duo with other professional union musicians. Some of these union contracts were as a guitar player singer soloist at Marriott Hotels & Resorts Key Bridges Hotel Lounge in Arlington, Virginia. Nikki Hornsby in the early 1970s was the first female singer-guitar player performing on the Auto Train that traveled from Lorton, VA to Sanford, FL and also was contracted as a stand up singer with a union piano player that she met on the auto train. She also worked with some other local union musicians in many clubs in Washington D.C. The union piano player, Chris Marchant, she met on the Auto-Train who asked her to work as a stand up singer in the surrounding area, including Lucky Pierre’s Lounge at L’Enfant Plaza, the Watergate complex in their main cocktail lounge. Nikki Hornsby also worked as a solo guitarist singer at other Washington DC finest waterside restaurants.