It was April of 1998 when the Missouri-native arrived in music city and she wasted no time starting a climb up the ladder of success. It took only two years for Nicole to secure a publishing deal with EMI Music Publishing
Nicole is a co-writer on songs recorded by Diamond Rio (“The Box”), Rodney Atkins (“Angel’s Hands”), Clay Walker (“It Ain’t Pretty, But It’s Beautiful”), Terri Clark (“She Didn’t Have Time”), Lee Brice (“Airport Song”) and George Strait (“Brothers of the Highway”). Strait’s album “Troubadour” won both a CMA for 2008 Album of the Year and a Grammy for 2009 Country Album of the Year. In November of 2009, Ednita Nazario recorded a song that Nicole wrote with Nick Carter of the Backstreet boys. (“Two Forevers”) is Nicole’s first Latin cut. Since the winter of 2010, Nicole has had songs recorded by Wynonna (“I Can’t”), Steve Holy (“Heart of a Hero”), Ashley Gearing (“Five More Minutes”) and new pop sensation Kaile Goh on Universal/Lava (“Not That Into You”). These songs will all make their debut sometime in 2011. Nicole’s voice can also be heard on the Pete Sternberg penned-tune, “Rusty” found in the Will Smith movie “Seven Pounds.”