For about a decade - until 1978 - she worked with NASA to recruit minority astronauts, among them Dr. In addition to her autobiography, Nichols also wrote Saturn's Children, a 1995 science fiction novel. He ran out less than six months later, and a pregnant Nichols forged ahead, becoming a single parent to her son. Her husband, who was more than a decade older, was a dancer. She married for the first time in 1951 while she was still in her teens. The great-granddaughter of a slave, she started dancing and singing professionally when she was 14, and years of nightclub work followed. Nichols, a Black actress who broke many color barriers and faced instances of racial prejudice on the job, was born and raised in Black-governed Robbins, Illinois. In addition, the album features Nichols singing the theme from the series. Roddenberry was also the producer of a police drama called The Lieutenant, a 1963 television program that Nichols appeared in three years before Star Trek made its first appearance. He had a personal relationship with the actress/singer, which she wrote about in Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories, an autobiography published in 1994. Out of This World includes "Gene," a song Nichols sang in honor of Gene Roddenberry, the man who created Star Trek.
Nichols was also featured on Sultry Ladies, a 1996 Sony compilation, as well as on a good number of related Star Trek releases, including Sony's Star Trek: 20th Anniversary Collectors' Edition Soundtrack, issued in 1999.
Included in her discography are the 1967 Epic release Down to Earth, the 1986 R-Way release Uhura Sings, and GNP Crescendo's Out of This World from 1995. She had a number of recordings to her credit, many of them tied in to the sci-fi series.
Best-known for her role as Lieutenant Uhura in the '60s television series Star Trek and the resulting string of Star Trek movies, Nichelle Nichols also forged a successful career as a singer when she toured with both Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington across two continents.
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