Red Onion, and Queensway Bay Hilton. 1980s Hornsby from working music full time purchased a home in Lomita, California in 1980. Later in the 1980s, Hornsby received a financial backing offer from a Lomita business owner, Ken Herbert, to record her original songs under her own record label CJP-NHRecords. Shortly after, Hornsby marketed her music to commercial radio stations and trade magazines throughout Europe and in the United States. Only a few of Hornsby's original songs from hundreds of performed songs were recorded and released for airplay on commercial radio stations in the US and Europe. In Mallorca, Spain, the "ACM Newsletter" as well as other print publications noted Hornsby's song "One Way Ticket" as number one. During that same time "Hungry For Love", "Let Me Take You on a Dream" and "Hot Talkin’ Big Shot" were airplayed in Europe. All four songs reached the top ten on commercial radio station charts. In 1988, she was named Female Singer of the Year in Scandinavia. In 1989, "Shoe String and a Prayer" charted Top 5 in the USA IRC (independent) country singles, as well as in the Cash Box Top 100 USA National commercial radio programming charts. 1990s In the 1990s, "Shoestring and a Prayer" obtained USA radio airplay from independent and major commercial radio stations as well as commercial music trade publications. "Shoestring and a Prayer" was No.1 the entire month of August on the Music Review Top 30 Independent Chart, NY, No.3 in the Top 30 (IRC) Debut Independent Radio Chart, Nashville, TN, No.11 on the Cash Box Independent Chart, and No.14 Indie Bullet Mag. Top 100 Chart, Tyler, TX. Nikki Hornsby was nominated in the music and lyric composition category to the Board of Directors of the Academy of Country Music (ACM) four different times in the 1990s. In the 1990s, she recorded as a solo singer-songwriter with Steve Duncan (Desert Rose Band), Jack Daniels (Hwy 101 Band), Jay Dee Manness (Desert Rose Band), John Jorgensen (Desert Rose Band), and Al Bruno who was a multi-year ACM award-winning guitarist (CA Country Music News, San Jose, CA Vol 2 No.20, Pg 9, April 1991). Hornsby Nikki Hornsby was nominated four different years (official Academy of Country Music Ballot, composer category, 1991, 1992, 1994) for a position on the ACM's board of directors. Nikki Hornsby and the Rangers Hornsby formed her back up band "Nikki Hornsby and the Rangers" for