Music Peeples started her career as part of the performance group
The Young Americans. In 1988 she hit #1 on the
Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "
Trouble", Her most recent recording is a country song called "If You Want Me to Stay," released on July 3, 2013. Available on Nia Peeples' own YouTube account and streaming services.
Acting Notably, Peeples portrayed performing arts student Nicole Chapman on the hit TV series
Fame. In 1987, she was in the movie
North Shore as Kiani. She also hosted the short-lived American version of
Top of the Pops in 1987, a weeknight dance music program called
The Party Machine with Nia Peeples (1991), and portrayed
Texas Ranger Sydney Cooke in the
CBS hit series
Walker, Texas Ranger from 1999 to 2001. In 2004, she appeared in the
Andromeda episode "
The Spider's Stratagem", as arms smuggler and love-interest Rox Nava. Peeples joined the cast of
The Young and the Restless in 2007, playing the role of Karen Taylor, and was released from the role in the spring of 2009. In 2010, she was cast in
ABC Family's TV series
Pretty Little Liars, based on the
book series by
Sara Shepard. Peeples was featured on the July 7, 2013 episode of
Celebrity Wife Swap, in which she traded places with singer
Tiffany. ==Discography==