Nicola Vazquez
“…Adroit new presence…unadulterated pop/rock mastery…”
Billboard Magazine
Nicola Vazquez is an accomplished Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Lyricist, Guitarist, Actor and Dancer. A true Multi-Hyphenate.
She is a graduate of the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of the Arts (“Fame” School), as well as The Manhattan School of Music and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, where she received her degree in Music and Theater. She is an alumnus of both the Broadway and National Road Companies of Les Miserables where she spent 2 years performing in the chorus and as an understudy for Madame Thenardier.
Leaving the theater temporarily to focus more on her music career, Nicola started her own record label “Hot Cherry Records” in 2002. Over the past 2 decades and 5 independently released CDs plus 2 Singles, having sold over 100,000 units independently, and charted on over 200 national radio stations, Nicola with her hybrid brand of sultry pop/rock/soul music has racked up an impressive list of rock and pop credentials: she's been featured on ABC, CBS & NBC News, Oxygen’s “Bad Girls Club”, “Music Under New York,” MTV, VH1, “Women Who Rock” magazine, Songwriter Universe Magazine, EMI/Songcircle Music, National Songwriters Hall of Fame , and she's performed at Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium. She was also featured twice and showcased in Billboard Magazine’s “Underground LP” section for Noteworthy Emerging Artists about to break. Nicola has opened for Eve 6, Edwin McCain, recorded for TOTR, and has shared the stage with Ricky Martin, Shanice, Muzz Skillings of “Living Color”. Nicola was Composer/Lyricist for the original Musical “We Are Ameena” which was showcased at an Equity 29-hour Reading in NYC in 2018, and she is currently the Composer/Lyricist for a new original Musical in development with Jason Huza called “Esperanza”, in which she will also be featured in one of the lead acting roles. Nicola is endorsed by Martin Guitars Artist Program, Lampifier Microphones and Dovetail Strings. She currently performs, records, composes and teaches in NYC as well as other parts of the U.S.