Table of Biography
Niykee Heaton is a pop singer, model, and songwriter who got recognition for the acoustic guitar covers of contemporary and hip-hop songs. Nikykee Heaton brought out her 1st single, “Bad Intentions” in 2014 which charted on Billboard and was gold-certified by the RIAA.
Early Life
The Singer was born with the name, Nicolet Aleta Heaton on 4th December 1994. Her birthplace is Chicago, Illinois but she was raised in Geneva, Illinois.
Similarly, the talented songwriter holds an American nationality and her current age is twenty-nine years. Her zodiac sign is Sagittarius. According to her, the moment she loves the most is when she spent in her mom’s native South Africa. The name of her mother is Veronica Heaton and her father’s name is Joel R. Heaton.
Regarding her educational background, Heaton is a well-educated and smart artist. She seems to have completed her primary and high school in the US. As for her childhood, she devoted her childhood to making music.
Heaton was just 5 years old when she wrote her 1st song and at the age of 9, she learned to play guitar. Despite early recognition early on that, she desired to be a musician. The artist never saw herself as an entertainer and just aimed to create music, emerging a stage fright.
In addition to that, she took vocal training by herself by singing together with Ross’s ultimate viral CD since her family could not provide financial support for her musical training.
Regarding her family, the artist has an elder brother and even a sister named Rachel. Even though her sister survived liver cancer, she passed away in 2007 at the age of just twenty-one. At that time, she was waiting for a 2nd liver transplant, whom she repeatedly records taking motivation from.
Caption: Niykee Heaton when she was young (Source: Pinterest)
Career and Professional Life
During high school in the year 2011, Niykee started posting her acoustic guitar cover clips on YouTube. All the covers of her contemporary viral records and infrequent originals were recorded in her bedroom.
Likewise, she covered Chief Keef’s song “Love Sosa” which was presented on the website, WorldStarHipHop in December 2012. At that same time, the American singer started meeting with record labels.
She graduated high school 6 months initially and self-invested in the recording of a host of her songs, choosing to take a step back and form “a catalog that we were proud of” with her manager, Lauren.
In the year 2014, Heaton sang with All Def Digital, a YouTube-based label originated by Steve Rifkind and Jam founder Russell Simmons, in partnership with Capitol Records.
On 24 April 2014, her name was at the top of Billboard’s Next Big Sound chart. The female singer finally came up with her debut extended play, “Bad Intentions” on 23rd September 2014, digitally in the US.
It placed on top of the Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 chart and even got into the top 10 in the U.S. iTunes Store on the day it was out. On 28 April 2015, the singer sent an open letter online venting frustration with her label.
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Then, she created a website named NBK (Natural Born Killers) on 13th June 2015 stating “NBK is the movement”. There, fresh music was freely brought out frequently in the subsequent months.
She revealed that she would be producing music herself. Then, she debuted her music video for the song, “Lullaby”, on Apple Music on 20th October 2015. Additionally, she declared in October that her 1st featuring concert tour, The Bedroom Tour, with 20 dates throughout the US and Canada, starts on 13th November 13 in Houston, Texas.
Its ending was on 18th December in Los Angeles, California. On 18th March 2016, the singer brought out The Bedroom Tour Playlist. She then gathered, revised, and remastered material she had shared virtually and presented directly on live shows in earlier months.
In an interview that happened in mid-2016, the American singer declared that she was scheduling her 1st studio album. The Centerfold Tour was Niykee’s 2nd tour, comprising 43 shows in North America. It started on 6th October 2016, in Athens, Georgia, and finished on 16th December 2016, in Austin, Texas.
Caption: Niykee Heaton singing on stage (Source: Flickr)
Niykee Heaton – Net Worth 2024
Being a well-known and gifted artist, Niykee has been making a whopping amount of money from her music career. The estimated net worth of Heaton is approximately $3 million US Dollars as per her recent reports.
\Also, her primary source of income is from her professional career as a singer, songwriter, and model. At present, the female artist has been living a luxurious life in Chicago, Illinois, United States together with her two lovely sons.
Relationship Status
Coming to her relationship status, the American artist has been a married personality for some years now. The name of her dashing husband is Jeff Logan who professionally is recognized as an actor, model, personal trainer, and entrepreneur.
Their wonderful marriage took place on 14th July 2019. The American pair are proud parents of their two sons, Damien and Niykta Heaton. Niykee’s 1st son, Damien was born on 1st May 2020 whereas her 2nd son, Niykta Heaton was born in the year 2022. However, it seems like Jeff and Heaton have parted ways in the year 2021.
Caption: Niykee Heaton with her sons (Source: Instagram)Ni
Body Measurements
Talking about her physical status, Niykee has been maintaining her physique and health very well. She has a perfect height of 5 feet 8 inches or 1.73 m. Similarly, she has a beautiful and curvy body that weighs around 59 kg or 130 lbs.
Heaton’s chest size is 35 inches, her waist size is 25 inches, and her hips size is 38 inches. The American artist must be following a perfect diet and regular exercise routine that has attractively shaped her figure.
Her shoe size is 7 US, her dress size is 6 US, and her bra cup size is 32 C. Furthermore, she has a pale complexion with a pair of blue eyes and long blonde hair.
Niykee Heaton – Social Media
As for her social media presence, the American female singer has been highly active on online networks. She gained every single recognition through social media platforms.
She has uploaded 304 posts on her Instagram, gaining 4.8 million followers as of August 2023. Likewise, she has over 1.5 million followers on her Facebook page. The American artist joined Twitter in October 2011 where she now has 419.2 thousand followers.
Moreover, she has her own YouTube channel with 752 thousand subscribers and 103 videos. All of her songs are also available on several music apps such as Apple Music, Spotify, and SoundCloud.