So you might be wondering...who the hell is this Nikka Costa? Well that's what I'm here to tell you. Nikka Costa is a big fat black lady stuck in the body of a pettite white girl with fiery red hair. No I'm serious! Because I've never heard a white girl sing like Nikka sings. This woman can wail! She's got so much passion and soul in her voice, it's hard to see how such a powerful sound can come out of someone who is so small.
The first time I heard Nikka was in a Tommy Hilfiger commercial. I didn't know it was her though. However the line, "And when I set it free like a feather it will be..." stuck out it my head. The song had an awesome groove to it but I figured it was just a song that was specifically done for the commercial. I also thought that the voice I was hearing belonged to a 40 something year old black woman.
I didn't hear about Nikka again until I saw her in an interview on the Oxygen network. Yes sometimes they actually show things besides Waiting to Exhale and Inventing the Abbots. During the interview, they showed clips of her performing live. Nikka was totally working the stage and the crowd. She doesn't just stand there and sing, she really lets the music move her. That's when I also found out that she was the singing voice in the Tommy commerical that I had seen so many times. Hearing a few other songs within the interview I grew very interested in hearing all of her songs.
I went on to Napster and downloaded "Like a Feather" and "Push and Pull." "Push and Pull" was actually on the soundtrack for Johnny Depp's movie Blow. I instantly fell in love with that song and was eager to hear more from Nikka. |
