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Niki King is a jazz and soul-funk vocalist and songwriter. She won the Perrier Jazz Vocalist of the Year award at the Café De Paris in London in 2001.

Since then, she has released four albums, as well as toured throughout Britain, Asia and Europe and performed at the Blue Note Jazz Clubs in Tokyo and New York, as well as London’s Ronnie Scott’s.

She released her first album, New Day in 2001, on Maunick’s Rice Records label and later featured as co-writer and performer on his album, Paradiso. Soon after, King’s second album, Azure, was well received for its reworking of jazz classics.

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

In 2009, King toured the Billie Holiday Songbook show, which she created to honour the jazz legend’s work on the 50th anniversary of her death. The show – which was specially recorded by BBC Radio Scotland - received five-star reviews in the press.

Originally from Edinburgh, King currently lives in New York after relocating there in late 2009.



Niki King - Azure - 2003
Niki King - New Day - 2001
Niki King & Marcus Ford - Twelve O'Clock Tales - 2006