Nicole Victoria Lauren Music on the Radio Spotlight

My music is on the radio for the first time.

Nicole Victoria Lauren’s House Music, cinematic soundscapes, atmospheric music, and independent releases have found a place in the Friday rotation on Unscripted Radio With Daddy Roy, an online radio station in a time slot featuring house music and a wide range of artists. That sentence feels wonderfully strange to write. For a musician building an honest body of work one song at a time, this first known radio airplay is a meaningful moment.

And you are invited and welcome to listen in. Come by the musical house, turn the volume up or keep it low, and stay as long as you’d like.

Friday mornings with Daddy Roy

LeRoy Mardenborough of Unscripted Radio has added Nicole Lauren to the station’s Friday 8:00 AM–12:00 PM Eastern time slot, called “Unscripted Radio With Daddy Roy.”

The Friday program is built around house music and includes many different voices, textures, and styles. Nicole’s music will be featured alongside the other artists in the rotation, creating a chance for these songs to travel beyond their usual listening spaces and meet people in a new setting.

It is the first time Nicole’s music has been played on any radio station that she is aware of.

That makes it worth pausing for.

Five songs, one very big feeling

All five of Nicole Lauren’s songs have been included in the rotation. Hearing that news brought a feeling that is difficult to reduce to a neat professional milestone. It is excitement, certainly. There is gratitude, surprise, and a little bit of disbelief in there too.

A song can begin quietly. It might start as a line of melody, a beat, a feeling that will not leave, or a strange little idea that seems to arrive from somewhere just beyond reach. Then the work begins: shaping the sound, following the emotional thread, making revisions, and deciding when the piece is ready to leave the room.

Eventually, the song belongs to other people too.

That transition can feel vulnerable. Music is personal, even when it is designed to make people move. Nicole’s songs carry pieces of her imagination and inner life, so having all five included in a radio rotation feels like an open door. The songs are being given another way to breathe.

Illustration of people listening to 80s house music on oversized boom boxes of the 1980s

A heartfelt thank-you to LeRoy

Nicole would like to offer a warm and sincere thank-you to LeRoy Mardenborough, also known as Daddy Roy, for opening this door.

Thank you, LeRoy, for adding Nicole’s music to your Friday programming, for including all five songs in the rotation, and for taking the time to highlight her inclusion in a LinkedIn message. That kind of encouragement matters, especially to an independent artist working without a large team or a giant machine behind the music.

Independent music can sometimes feel like sending messages in bottles across a very large ocean. You create the work, release it, share it, and hope it reaches the right ears. When someone like LeRoy notices the music and makes room for it, the distance suddenly feels a little smaller.

So this is not only an announcement. It is a thank-you.

Nicole is grateful that the songs have been welcomed into the Unscripted Radio community, and she is excited to hear how they feel within the flow of a Friday morning filled with house music.

Following the first voice

Nicole’s creative compass is Prima Voca, meaning “first voice.” It is a simple way of describing the instinct that comes before overthinking: the first emotional truth, the original spark, the voice that says, this is the direction.

That first voice does not always arrive with a marketing plan. It may not fit neatly into a genre, a trend, or a current playlist strategy. Sometimes it has its head in the clouds. Sometimes it is enduring storms. Sometimes it is simply trying to make something honest enough to be felt.

Nicole Lauren is an independent musician and composer whose work moves through atmospheric music, emotional songwriting, and cinematic soundscapes. Her releases are made with intention and shaped as part of a larger creative journey. The goal is not to chase every trend. The goal is to make music with sincerity, imagination, and heart.

Radio airplay does not change that compass. It gives the music another path.

“I’m grateful,” Nicole says. “I’m grateful to LeRoy for hearing something in my work and for giving these songs a place in his rotation. It means a lot to know that my music may be part of someone’s Friday morning.”

Listen to Unscripted Radio

You can listen to Unscripted Radio With Daddy Roy at unscriptedradio.com.

Nicole’s music will be featured on Fridays from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern, alongside house music and the other artists included in the program. The station also presents a broad range of positive, encouraging, and uplifting music throughout the day.

If you listen, thank you. If you share the announcement, thank you. And if you simply take a moment to enjoy one of the songs while the morning moves around you, that is more than enough.

Music does not need to arrive with fireworks to matter. Sometimes it arrives through a speaker while coffee is brewing, sunlight is coming through a window, or the day is just beginning to gather itself. Sometimes a song meets a listener quietly and stays there.

For Nicole Lauren, this is a first step onto the radio; an unexpected and beautiful part of the independent music journey.