title: Kiki Shepard
text: # Kiki Shepard
  
  Kiki Shepard (born Chiquita Renee Shepard; July 15, 1951) is an American television host, best known as the longtime co-host of It's Showtime at the Apollo. She is a native of Tyler, Texas. Shepard has also worked as an actress and voice actor.
  
  ## Pop culture
  
  Kiki was referenced in the song "So Fresh, So Clean" by the hip hop group Outkast (released in 2001), "No Church in the Wild" on the duet album Watch the Throne by Jay Z and Kanye West (August 2011), and in "Keep My Coo" from the compilation album Everybody's Everything by Lil Peep (November 2019).
  
  