Nika

Veronika Boráková, performing as Nika, is a Czech singer, songwriter and composer.

She released her debut Flesh & Soul in the spring of 2022. A graduate of the Janáček Conservatory in the field of composition, in her work she particularly processes genres such as jazz, pop, folk and alternative. Her lyrics deal with personal relationships, the artifice of the world around us, the false appearance of perfection, the themes of manipulation, pretense, up to physical and psychological violence. Nika has been playing the piano since the age of four, she started writing her first compositions at the age of six, she was influenced by rock, jazz syntheses and classical music. The accompanying band consists of drummer Jonáš Bjolek, pianist Pavel Duda and bassist Nicolas Gatto. In 2023, she became the winner of the Jazzfruit competition in the Junior category. For the album Flesh & Soul (2022) she won the Jantar Moravian-Silesian Art Award in the popular music category.