Nikka Costa
Nikka Costa was born in Tokyo, Japan on June 4th, 1972 and is the Blues Singer. At the age of 52, Nikka Costa biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Domenica "Nikka" Costa (born June 4, 1972) is an American singer whose music blends elements of pop, soul, and blues.
She began working as a child actress in the early 1980s.
She is the granddaughter of Australian producer/songwriter Justin Stanley and is the niece of music producer Don Costa.
Early life
Nikka Costa was born in Tokyo, Japan. Don Costa, her father, was a producer and singer. Costa was surrounded by famous musicians as a child and traveled around the world with her father.
Costa released a single with Hawaiian singer Don Ho at the age of five. Danny B. Besquet and Tony Renis, two Italian singers, were working with her father on Don Costa Plays the Beatles when they decided they wanted to produce an album with Nikka singing, while her father played acoustic guitar. The album was well-received in Europe, and Costa Rica's involvement as a child actor became well-known. In an appearance on the lawn of the White House at age 9, Costa sang with Frank Sinatra.
Costa began working as an artist under her own name in 1981, when she released the song "(Out Here) On My Own" (from the movie Fame). The single made it to No. 1 on the charts. No. 72 in Germany. No. 7 in Switzerland, No. 9. No. 32 in the Netherlands. No. 13 in Belgium's Flanders region, and No. 4 is No. 337. In Italy, there is one. In 1981, Nikka Costa's album was released outside of the United States. Costa has toured the world. Fairy Tales (cuentos de hadas) was her second album since 1983. Don Costa died of a heart attack just after the album was released. Here I Am... Yes, It's Me was sent in 1989 to fulfill a contractual responsibility.
Costa decided to move away from pop and toward funk and soul after graduating from high school, becoming inspired by Motown musicians.
Adult career
Costa converted from childhood pop to mature soul when she first started a music business in the early 1990s. She married Australian producer/songwriter Justin Stanley and moved to Australia. Sugar McQueen, Costa and Stanley now have a daughter named Sugar McQueen.) Costa began writing her own songs and formed Little Mona & the Shag Daddies, a "good funk" band in Sydney, which disbanded after four gigs. Sugarbone, a band that appeared in Australia in 1994, was Costa's next venture. Costa describes the event as "it was really scary to learn about it," but the reaction was positive. It lifted my spirits." She also signed to the Mushroom brand in Australia after Sugarbone. Costa released the album Butterfly Rocket in Australia in 1996. The collection earned a nomination for ARIA Music Awards Breakthrough Artist in 1996 and Best Female Artist in 1997.
In 2000, Costa's song "Like a Feather" was featured in a Tommy Hilfiger television commercial campaign. That exposure, as well as the track's music video, helped launch her American music career. Everybody Got Their Something was released in 2001 and reached No. 1 on the charts. The Billboard 200 has 120. Both the title track and "Like a Feather" were radio hits, though the former reached their high point at No. 5. In the United Kingdom, 53 people have died. Costa opened the Dream Within a Dream Tour in the United States and Canada in 2002. Costa released the album Can't Neverdidnothin' in 2005. She toured with Lenny Kravitz, who also appeared on the stage. Jenna Elfman and her husband Justin Stanley performed and performed the theme to the short-lived CBS sitcom Courting Alex.
Costa appeared on Mark Ronson's album Here Comes the Fuzz. Ronson has performed some of Costa Rica's hits. In the soundtrack of Johnny Depp's 2001 film "Push & Pull" from the album Everybody Got Their Something. Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper's song "Everybody Got Their Something" appeared in the All About Steve video in 2009. In an episode of Grey's Anatomy and in The Peanuts Movie, she sang "Stuck To You" from the album Pebble to a Pearl.
Costa is currently signed with Stax Records. On October 14, she first introduced Pebble to a Pearl. In 2010, she released "Ching Ching Ching Ching Ching Ching" in Europe. The song is a tribute to the shift from soul/funk to electro-pop. The single reached No. 59. In Germany, 69, making it Costa's first single to chart in Germany since 1981's "On My Own." In 2011, Pro Whoa, a new EP, was launched. Costa co-wrote the song "Diamonds Made from Rain" on Eric Clapton's 2010 album Clapton's "Diamonds Made from Rain." On June 2, 2017, the album Nikka & Strings: Underneath and In Between, which are made up of rock standards, was released.