Born to parents who hailed from Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica Diva Nikki Z has always marched to the beat of her own drum. Diva Z has always been known as a strong minded, opinionated, controversial, DJ,/radio personality and entertainment/news reporter. This however didn’t happen overnight, at the age of 17 she joined the army and was stationed in Fort Bliss, TX which included a 6 month tour in Saudi Arabia. Shortly after, Nikki Z was introduced to college radio by radio announcer Donavan Longmore, after collaborating with Donavan on his show for almost a year Diva Z was given her own show on 88.1 WESU FM. While working her shift, Jamz 910 the only Hip Hop station in CT gave Nikki Z a call to do a show on their station called Caribbean Jamz. She remained with Jamz until they eventually changed their format due to the growing use of FM signals.
Ever on the go she then ventured to NYC where she did field production work for BET’s "Turn Style",audience coordination for comedy central ‘s Tough Crowd w/ Colin Quinn and also appeared in the infamous Rick James episode on The Dave Chappelle Show. As fate would have itt right before her scheduled second appearance on The Dave Chappelle Show Diva Nikki Z received “The Call” from the new hip hop and R&B station in CT, Power 104.1 FM. Nikki Z was hired immediately to work as a board operator for the infamous Wendy Williams Radio show. With hard work and determination she worked her way from board operator and late night broadcaster to doing mid days 10-2 pm Mon-Fri.
Ever looking for opportunity for growth Nikki Z made the decision to branch out of the place in which she grew up and venture over to the land she loves… Jamaica. With her already strong links and network Diva Nikki Z was introduced to Zip 103fm a budding station on the island and also Hype T.V Jamaica’s leading video television network. In less then 1 year Nikki Z went from being a virtual unknown on the beautiful island to being 1 of the top rated radio/media personalities. Always working and trying new things, from there Nikki Z produced one of Jamaica’s biggest Dancehall artist, Movado’s hit songs “Don’t Cry” which is featured on his debut album Gangsta For Life. Living so far from home put a strain on Diva Z and after an slight infraction which led to a brief suspension she decided to take that time to get back to her roots and be closer to her family. But in all things Diva related she used what she learned in the majestic island of Jamaica to push even further her career abroad.
Currently you can hear the Diva worldwide on programs and stations like,Robbo Ranx on BBC 1xtra, Uptown 91.1 in Nairobi, Africa, Hot 97 in Boston Mass, Irie Jam 93.5 in New York and more recently Hot 93.7 in Hartford, CT. In addition to all of this Diva Nikki Z is the creator and producer of the hit syndicated Caribbean Radio program World Caribbean Countdown which counts down the biggest hits in the Caribbean market. World Caribbean Countdown or WCC is featured on numerous stations across the Caribbean and international continents and growing. Always in demand you can catch the Diva mixing it up on the turntables at a club near you, Or listen out for her on your radio! Best believe if Nikki Z is not on your dial… She will be there soon!!! Follow her on Twitter, Twitter.com/DivaNikkiZ and on her website DivaNikkiZ.com.
For more info on the World Caribbean Countdown visit worldcaribbeancountdown.com.