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| ARTIST: |
Nikka Costa
(Google this artist) |
| ALBUM: |
Everybody Got Their Something |
| LABEL: |
Virgin Records |
| RELEASED: |
2001 |
Never mind her storybook upbringing (daughter of famed composer-arranger Don
Costa; goddaughter of Frank Sinatra; opening for the Police at age 8 in
front of 300,000 fans in Chile...) with Everybody Got Their Something Nikka dares anyone to
deny that she is a force to be reckoned with. Rock, funk and hip-hop each
find a comfortable home on this album, often on the same track, as she
creates a genre all her own. She rocks with at-ti-tude, but don’t be fooled,
she also has a softer side. On cuts like “Push & Pull” and “So Have I For
You” her soulful voice winds around thoughtful lyrics with more subtlety but
equal intensity.
Articles about Costa’s long-anticipated debut album run rampant with
wordplay on the title. It is true, however: Nikka has something. Yet as good
as this album is, it doesn’t adequately convey what that ‘something’ is.
This woman is a powerful, sensual stage performer (which lends itself to the
many Janis Joplin comparisons).
Songs like “Hope It Felt Good” and the hit-single “Like a Feather” (kudos to
Tommy Hilfiger for using this in his ads) sizzle on CD but explode in her
live show in a way that you would never expect from a 5-foot-nothing
redhead. Not to mention the fact that she has hand-picked a kick-ass band!
It is her stage presence and her command of multiple styles which assures
the listener that she is no one-hit-wonder, and that in two years no one will be
asking, “Nikka who?”
review by Sierra Hurtt-Akselrod
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