After years of unmitigated dedication to music, composing and playing in bands with styles raging from the darkest and heaviest metal genres to pop and choir music, having also acted as a backbone to multi-artistic events, Niki Gravino embarked on his solo music career while utilizing his multi genre experience into a mature, uncompromising, yet marketable musical aesthetic. Niki Gravino Influences are Depeche Mode, NIN, PJ Harvey, Prince, The Cure, U2, Tori Amos, Nick Cave, Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Bjork and Radiohead.