Naïka

Victoria Naika Richard, known professionally as Naika, is a multilingual singer and songwriter born on March 2, 1998, in Miami to a Haitian mother and a French father raised in Madagascar. Her childhood was spent across the globe -- Guadeloupe, Vanuatu, Nairobi, Paris, and South Africa -- before returning to Miami at age 16. She studied performance at Berklee College of Music, where she was selected for a tour with Michael Bolton during her first year, and placed second in the 2015 BMI John Lennon Foundation Scholarship competition. Naika rose to prominence in early 2020 when her TikTok version of "Don't Rush" garnered over 20 million views, drawing attention from the original artists Young T & Bugsey. Her song "Sauce" debuted in an Apple iPhone commercial during the 2021 Grammy telecast. Singing in French, Haitian Creole, and English, she describes her style as "world pop," blending European, African, and Caribbean influences with pop, soul, and R&B. As an independent artist, she has surpassed 270 million streams across three EPs and was named Caribbean Fusion Artist of the Year at the 2025 Caribbean Music Awards.