Biography

NIKKI LYNETTE is a social impact artist & suicide survivor who fuses mental health activism into her performances, film projects and visual art, creating a lane that is uniquely her own. This Chicago native’s self-produced tunes are frequently featured in popular shows on Netflix, Hulu, Showtime and more. After a hiatus from releasing new music, Nikki Lynette returned to the public eye in 2016 with a confession: she’d secretly been battling mental health issues. She began writing articles about depression and suicide for prominent sites like BlackDoctor, Afropunk and AllHipHop. As the opening act for Pussy Riot’s first American tour Nikki workshopped the material that would soon become her musical about depression, GET OUT ALIVE. Since adapting her musical about depression to film during the pandemic, GET OUT ALIVE has been invited into over a dozen film festivals, nominated for 5 film awards and won 3 of them. Her popular podcast “About a Girl” has recently been renewed by iHeartRadio for a fourth season. Her mental health docuseries Happy Songs About Unhappy Things is currently in production.