LA-based Pop/Alt R&B artist Niki Tonik doesn’t just make art- she lives it. The Israeli-American self-proclaimed “Progressive Pop” artist balances her time between writing and recording music and practicing Taoist Tonic Herbalism a career that has inspired her name as well as her sound. Her silky vocals have drawn comparison to Sade from the likes of Babyface, who heard her music online and applauded the “richness and emotive tone color” of Niki’s voice. But her songwriting takes pages from the pop-music playbook which glimmers with the influence of Pop/R&B powerhouses like Sia and Alicia Keys and musical stylings reminiscent of Miguel in her latest release "Tadpole.”