Nicko Ostby

Born in Indonesia, with his mother as a music teacher and vocal coach, Nicko Ostby grew up singing, playing piano, guitar and other instruments from a young age. He performed piano at many recitals, since elementary school, and started playing and performing guitar in Junior High, High School and college. His parents introduced him to gospel and hip hop from a young age, and rap quickly became his favorite genre, falling in love with the complex beats, melodies and catchy lyrics. Nicko released his first hip hop song onto Spotify in 2018, and since then has released 41 more songs, including three albums, Money Hits (2020), Bounce Back Higher (2021), and Indefatigable (2022). Frequently preforming hip hop, he was invited to rap at the LA Fashion Week runway show, being photographed by Getty Images. The FM radio station Wish 107.5 also asked Nicko to perform three of his original songs on their radio station in Hollywood, which was also filmed live. Chinese Television broadcasted Nicko Ostby’s live hip hop performance at a large business convention east of Los Angeles. Connecting with the Santa Barbara music scene, Nicko was asked to perform rap at the Soho House in Santa Barbara, being booked along with artists like Madison Calley who performed at the Grammys. Nicko has collaborated with many artists and rappers including “The Game.” Together they created the hit song “Wedding Night” which charted on Spotify. Nicko’s fourth studio album is rumored to be dropping soon.