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— by Briony Wright: NIKI is a 21-year-old Jakartan singer, songwriter and producer who just released her debut album, Moonchild, a genre-fluid opus in three parts. Now based in LA and signed to Sean Miyashiro’s 88rising label, her rise contains echoes of Justin Bieber’s well-documented origin story. At 15, as a self-declared ‘foot-of-the-bed guitar-girl’, NIKI entered a competition to support Taylor Swift on the Indonesian leg of her tour. Reader: she won the contest. Pretty soon she was performing her original songs to an arena full of Swifties, a moment she describes as ‘truly surreal’…

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