Music like Nikki & Rich

Nikki & Rich was an R&B group, made up of Nikki Leonti & Rich Velonskis.

Leonti is a California-born pastor's daughter who grew up singing in church.

Velonskis is a Queens, NY-born former DJ and established hip-hop/R&B producer who got his start spinning in New York City clubs as a teenager. They met in 2007. Nikki was based in Nashville working as a background singer for Carrie Underwood and Rich was in Los Angeles producing tracks for Eve, Robin Thicke, Mario, and Ludacris, under his moniker Rich Skillz. (A track he produced on Ludacris' No. 1 album Release Therapy earned Rich a "Best Rap Album" Grammy.) Rich was looking for a vocalist and lyricist to collaborate with and he found Nikki.