Sharmeika Davis-Boyd is an accomplished author, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and community leader, best known as the Founder and Owner of Qiky Kidz LLC—an educational entertainment brand dedicated to inspiring young minds through literacy, creativity, and engaging experiences.

She has been recognized in several newspaper articles in her community and rewarded citations by both the New York City Council and the New York State Assembly for her outstanding community impact, Sharmeika has built a reputation for transforming learning into fun, memorable moments for children and families across New York.

Through Qiky Kidz, she has led impactful initiatives including McDonald’s Read Aloud programs, library book signing, YMCA youth events, and other organizations, also interactive storytime sessions at schools and daycare centers. Her work focuses on promoting early childhood literacy, confidence, and imagination, especially in underserved communities.

She has written over 13 manuscripts. She has two published books. Her books are available online everywhere books are sold. Her first book “Grandma Has A Mouse in Her House” is in several library through out Queens, New York.

Her third book will be published in,

May of 2026.

As an author, Sharmeika brings stories to life that empower children to dream big and embrace learning. As a business owner and visionary, she continues to expand Qiky Kidz into a dynamic platform that bridges education and entertainment. Sharmeika goals are to bring families together through engaging activities that encourages bonding time together with parents, grandparents and children. We want everyone to put down their electronics in participate. Qiky Kidz puts a smile on everyone’s face.

Her mission is simple yet powerful: to make learning exciting, accessible, and impactful—one child at a time.

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Music is in Amanda’s blood. It has been said that she sang even before she could speak. Her voice could sometimes be heard from the rooftops of Newark, NJ where she would dwell for some months of her infancy with her musical mother & her guitar strumming father. From the age of two, the multi-ethnic (African American, Cherokee Indian, Italian, & Egyptian) Amanda Holley practically lived in the orchestra pit while her mother (graduate of Manhattan School of Music) would play some of the greatest musicals and symphonies ever written on her cello, her estranged father Gregory Holley was a songwriter who wrote for Sarah Vaughan.

As a SINGER and songwriter, she has recently collaborated for her project with Dimitri Ehrlich (over 20Xs platinum), GoldenChyl (multiple-Grammy nominee), Shaggy (multi-platinum artist), Andy Marvel (Oscar winner & multi-platinum for Celine Dion, Brian McKnight, etc), Nikki Gregoroff (Lady Gaga, Brittani Spears), Rob Fusari (Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Whitney Houston, etc.), Julien Believe (Shontelle, John Legend), Jeff Franzel (N’Sync, Temptations, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Cox), Dennis Williams (O’Jays, Backstreet Boys), Legz Dymond (MOP & Floetry), Rob Clores (Enrique Inglesias), Will Villalona (Nas), Michael Makowski (Amy Winehouse, Usher, Maxwell, etc.) Jimmy George (Taylor Dayne, Chaka Khan, Smokey Robinson, etc.), Phil Ramone (Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Etta James, Quincey Jones, Frank Sinatra etc.), Joseph Joubert (Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan), and the phenomenally talented singer’s producer Charles Wallert (George Benson, Dionne Warwick, OC Smith, Patti LaBelle, etc). They have even dubbed her “America’s SoulFuL SweetHeart”. Her lyrical talents stem from her outstanding poetic voice which earned her multiple awards, scholorships, and publications with Columbia Press at the ages of 16-18.

She is also an accomplished actor (member of the Actors’ Equity Association). Throughout High School, Amanda appeared in over seven leading and supporting roles in Off B’Way musicals along with an internationally distributed (Blockbuster & Suncoast) drama in which she took the supporting role and before she even graduated, had studied extensively and one on one with Juilliard, Tony, and Emmy award winning singers, teachers, actors, and musicians including Michael Imperioli, Sharon Angela, Nick Sandow, and Vince Curatola at Studio Dante along with Chris Scott, Petronia Paley, Tina Lane, Bob McHugh, LaVerne Reede, and Monica Johnson among many others. She began violin from the age of three and, throughout her teenaged years, played in numerous orchestras and ensembles.

Miss Holley plays the piano & violin (since age 3), has vocally trained various singers for executives of Capitol and Universal records and her student’s roster (50 private students per week) spans from 7 year olds doing B’Way, to choral directors, all the way to multiple Grammy winning artists. Amanda states, “Music is who I am. I never woke up and decided to be a singer I always have been and always will be. I eat, sleep, and BREATHE music. I cannot wait to share my story of tragedy, over-coming, strength, hope, and LOVE with the world through my music!.”.

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