Meet Tameka Nichole: Spectacular Magazine ‘On The Scene’ Columnist
Spectacular Magazine welcomes Tameka Nichole S. Hargrove, PKA Tameka Nichole, as the Spectacular Magazine ‘On The Scene’ Columnist. Tameka Nichole will be out and about, all over the Triangle and beyond, covering and reporting on all genres of events and activities.
What’s Unique?
Spectacular Magazine, in addition to producing some of the most exciting and well-attended events in the area, has always covered and reported on community events and/or activities. Tameka Nichole will cover the happenings in the Triangle and document them via photos and videos. But she is taking ‘On The Scene” to the next level.
Tameka Nichole will dig deeper to determine how the event and/or activity she’s attending enlightens or empowers, if it was entertaining, and describe the experience.
Here’s why Tameka Nichole is uniquely qualified for this position…
Tameka Nichole S. Hargrove…Esthetician, Promoter, Personality, Music Enthusiast… hails from Norfolk, Virginia by way of Jackson, North Carolina. When not involved in independent artist development or producing entertainment summits, she operates Perfections by Tameka Nichole, LLC, where she spends her time promoting beauty and professional eyebrow artistry, as aided by over a decade of experience in the beauty industry as a professional brow expert and makeup artist.
Tameka Nichole gives time to her non-profit “The M.U.S.I.C. Program,” a multicultural program for high school age students created to enhance all ethnicities & cultural backgrounds interested in learning how to successfully maneuver through the entertainment industry. Through her social campaign “#SistaSocialSupport” she offers social media support for women of on all social platforms as well as at social engagement and community outings where she collaborates with ‘sistas’.
When it comes to the music, Tameka Nichole began her music interest at the early age of 5 when her grandmother, Lillie Balmer moved her to the country town of Jackson, NC, after leaving the big city of Norfolk, VA, where all of her leisure time was dedicated simply to radio and beauty. Growing up on 103 Jamz (102.9fm WOWi) and FOXY (104.3fm/107.1fm) Tameka Nichole waited by the radio every night at 8 pm every night for any World Premiers and just to record the latest songs on her Just For Me cassette tapes that came free in her hair relaxer making a way to continuously hear her favorite songs while doing something in beauty, whether it was nails or hair, she fed her desire for both.
Tameka Nichole went on to attend North Carolina Central University where she stumbled into the pleasures of music, while walking the halls of the Farrison-Newton Communications building during the first week of her freshman year, causing her to change her major from her initial interest in from computers to Mass Communications with a concentration in Broadcast Media, and minoring in business.
Tameka Nichole found immediate interest in the campus student radio station, AudioNet Campus Access Radio where she was able to build her talent as a Radio Personality, a dream that she held since the age of 5. After becoming heavily involved with AudioNet she was one of the main on-air personality to interview/record artist drops from celebrities in the entertainment industry.
Tameka Nichole then went on to become an NCCU Liasion for Black College Radio (BCR) as well as being given the opportunity to attend the BCR conferences launched by Lo Jelks in Atlanta, GA then on to become a representative for NCCU at the Kings Dominion “BET Black College Day.” From there she went on to finally create her own radio show, “The Pay Back” (paid homage to all those Classic R&B tunes that have been re-made and or sampled.). While at NCCU during her Junior year with the help of then Station Director, Truitt Oneal, Tameka Nichole become founding Organizer and President of AudioNet, affording the student station its first grant, the station to gain necessary equipment such as station microphones.
From gaining all insights while working with AudioNet Tameka Nichole started early with Radio internships, holding her first internship the summer after her freshman year with First Media Radio in Weldon, NC to better prepare herself for her next internship, the summer after her sophomore year with Radio One Incorporated station, later using this opportunity to venture into the station’s promotion and marketing events as well as a cultivating a invaluable business relationship with Brian Dawson, where she worked as Executive Assistant and Assitant Director of Operations, Online Advertising & Marketing for Chase Media/BD Entertainment.
Tameka Nichole, now ten plus years later, has developed a better insight on who she is and what she has to offer the world when it comes to entertainment. After years of cultivating, in 2017 she decided to simply merge of the two, Beauty & Entertainment. Tameka Nichole rebranded creating, “Tameka Nichole the Brand” and now coins herself as “Your Beauty Entertainer”, the statement verbally expresses the combination of her life-time experiences in the beauty and entertainment industry. Her main goal is to promote beauty within while promoting the understanding that in every life experience beautiful or not, there’s always a “Soundtrack to YOUR Life”, it’s all about a memory, mood, having the feel of a hypnotic groove playing those tracks that simply get you tapping your feet and nodding your head.
Offering full on personality, Your Beauty Entertainer provides to all an entertaining experience that will enlighten your knowledge of the beauty and entertainment industry, divulging the everyday beautification hacks in music for women and men to continually keep the socializing, mingling, and party going!
“I told myself I would never stop achieving the unattainable, I took a chance and Perfected it into a craft not so much of a gamble because I’m a woman able to do anything, not perfect but perfecting my imPERFECTIONS, and I’m HERE NOW!!!” – Tameka Nichole
Spectacular Magazine ‘On The Scene’ with Tameka Nichole starts tomorrow!