Nicky English is the nom de plume of singer-songwriter Nikita Hasis, who arrived at the anglophilic sobriquet after watching Brit film director Guy Ritchie's Snatch. His favorite groups include a roster of UK groups, including the Stone Roses, Oasis and Primal Scream. "I also listen to quite a bit of gypsy jazz – Django Reinhardt, The Rosenberg Trio, Moreno… and French stuff, like Francis Cabrel, Joe Dassin..." His records are rife with synth-derived orchestration layered on dozens of individual tracks, all the brainchild of English, the sole – and prolific – songwriter. -- Ohioauthority.com