Niki Leeman

Niki Leeman, born and raised in the San Francisco bay area, recalls when he first began writing: "I started writing poems when I was 8 for no reason I can remember. I bought an electric guitar at fifteen because I wanted to write songs. In the beginning I wanted to be Bruce Springsteen. Then I heard Bob Dylan's "Blood On The Tracks" and everything changed, so I swapped my beautiful Gibson SG walnut electric and all my rock-star pretensions for an acoustic guitar and hit the road.