Kenyan musician and actress Nikita Kering shared the release of her new song after a one-year break from music.
Nikita posted the date on her Instagram page, "let you down this Friday", she wrote. She's set to release the song on February 2nd, 2024.
Nikita is known for her limelight song "Ex" which has over 1.3M streams on Boomplay and over 7.6 million views on YouTube and counting.
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Nikita has been thriving in the music industry, as she has won two AFRIMA awards in 2019 for Best Female Artist in Eastern Africa and Revelation of the African Continent and two more AFRIMA awards in 2021 for Best RnB and Soul Artist and Best Female Artist in Eastern Africa again.
She and Kaligraph Jones represented Kenya in the Coke studio season for the year 2023.
Her fans showed how excited they are in the comments ,saying they can't wait to listen to the song.
Below are five interesting facts you need to know about her:
1.Nikita first started performing when she was only three years old.
2. As an R&B act, she has won several awards, including 'Best RnB and Soul Artist' and 'Best Female Artist East Africa' at the 2021 All Africa Music Awards. This was after scooping 'Best Female Artist in Eastern Africa' and 'Revelation of the African Continent' at the 2019 edition of the awards.
3. Her biggest single, Ex, was one of the most streamed songs in Kenya on Spotify in 2021.
4. In 2020, she was the youngest performer at the annual Women in Music concert series in Nairobi. The following year, she released her debut EP A Side of Me to rave reviews.
5. She writes her own music.
