The Black Culture sits down with businesswoman, author, singer-songwriter, world traveler and Pan African Think Tank founder, C.Nichole. She has traveled to more than 100 countries, written multiple book series, released over a dozen singles and two extended play albums, as well as started the non-profit Pan African Think Tank.
C.Nichole, born Christin Nichole in Dallas, TX, had been a fan of music since the age of 2, but ultimately remembers Christmas of 1998 as an important moment of her life. After unwrapping and listening to Mya’s first CD, she realized she wanted to be in the music industry any way she could; setting her goals for just that at 7 years old.
After singing and winning at local talents shows and participating in choir, she moved to Southern California. While attending classes at Le Studio in Pasadena, CA C.Nichole trained in Hip-Hop, Flamenco, and Jazz. An opportunity came so she took it, and ventured off into modeling after getting signed to an agency in L.A.
At 15, with modeling and working on movie sets, she knew that music was her real passion. Feeling in order for people to take her seriously, she needed to also tend to the business side of things. She filled out her first copyright application along with the BMI songwriter application at 16. After modeling for the Texas Summer Music Conference, which enabled her to network with industry executives, artist, and DJs and take in their advice and hear their stories, she realized she needed to put down whatever was distracting her from music and get back to business.
After graduating high school early, she left right away to attend The University of Houston majoring in Marketing and minoring in European Studies & Journalism. She also seized the opportunity to intern at one of the “Big 3” record labels during her time there. Taking all the knowledge she learned, she started her own music publishing company.
After demoing tracks for artists and getting feedback from labels, she realized that no one understood her sound and songwriting style, and decided to go about music alone; creating her own record label. C.Nichole decided to start off her career by being the singer in the duo group, Apollo’s Interlude.
After the group disbanded, she continued on as an Urban Pop artist. In 2014 C.Nichole released her 90’s and early 00’s R&B influenced album, “Coup d’Etat”. Her debut album landed singles such as “In My Dreams” and “Why” on internet radio stations on 3 different continents. “Hope You Hear This (On The Radio)” received FM radio play throughout America, while “Every Day” and “(Just Keep) You Hold On Me” caught the attention of college radio. In 2015 C.Nichole released the EP, “Acoustically C.Nichole: Coup d’Etat”, and then the “Texas Chick” EP in 2017.
After having visited 79 countries by the beginning of 2019, C.Nichole finally found a way to combine her passion for music with her love for travel. She stayed true to her Urban Pop roots, which fuses the mixing of genres, and her melodic songwriting skills with Christin SanDiego.
You can learn more about C.Nichole and Pan African Think Tank below:
http://cnichole.com/
https://panafricantt.org/
Follow C.Nichole:
IG: https://bit.ly/3eaMEhk
Twitter: https://bit.ly/36xKvba
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