MIDNIGHT
NIKKA COSTA
SONGWRITERS:
LISA CATHERINE COHEN & R.MUSUMARRA
COUNTRY:
POP
ALBUM: HERE
I AM … YES, IT’S ME
LABEL: POLYDOR
GENRE: POP
YEAR:1990
Domenica "Nikka" Costa (born June
4, 1972) is an American singer whose music combines elements of pop, soul, and blues. She also had a career as a child
singer starting in the early 1980s. She is the daughter of
music producer Don Costa.
Nikka Costa was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her father Don Costa was a
producer and musician. During her childhood Costa was surrounded by famous
musicians and traveled around the world with her father.
At age five, Costa recorded a single with
Hawaiian singer Don Ho. Italian producers Danny
B. Besquet and Tony Renis were
working with her father on the album Don Costa Plays the Beatles when they had
a brainstorm to produce an album with Nikka singing while her father played
acoustic guitar. The
album was well received in Europe and Costa became known as a child star. At
age 9 Costa sang with Frank Sinatra in an appearance on the lawn of the White House.
Costa's career as a recording artist under
her own name started in 1981, when she recorded the song "(Out Here) On My Own"
(from the movie Fame). The
single reached #72 in Germany, #7 in Switzerland, #32 in the Netherlands, #13
in the Flanders region of Belgium., and #1 in Italy. The álbum Nikka Costa was
released outside the U.S. in 1981. Costa toured the world. Her second album Fairy
Tales (cuentos de hadas) was released in 1983. Don Costa died of a heart attack shortly after the
album was recorded. The pop álbum Here I Am... Yes, It's Me was
released to fulfill a contractual obligation in 1989.
After graduating from high school, Costa
decided to move away from pop and moved toward funk and soul, becoming
influenced by Motown artists.
In 2000, Costa's song "Like A
Feather" was featured in a Tommy Hilfiger television advertising
campaign. That exposure coupled with the track's music video helped
launch her U.S. music career. The álbum Everybody Got
Their Something was released in 2001 and
reached #120 on the Billboard 200.
The title track and "Like a Feather" were radio hits, although the
latter did peak at #53 in the United Kingdom. In 2002, Costa was the opening
act for Britney Spears' Dream Within
a Dream Tour in the US and Canada. In 2005, Costa
released the álbum can'tneverdidnothin'.
She toured with Lenny Kravitz who also
performed on the record. In 2006 she and her husband Justin Stanley recorded
and performed the theme to the short-lived CBS sitcom Courting Alex starring Jenna Elfman.
Costa was a guest singer on Mark Ronson's album Here
Comes the Fuzz. Ronson
has produced some of Costa's songs. Her song "Push &
Pull" from the álbum Everybody Got Their Something is included in the
soundtrack of the 2001 movie Blow starring Johnny Depp.
Her song "Everybody Got Their Something", was used in the soundtrack
of the 2009 movie All About Steve starring Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper. Her
song "Stuck To You" from the álbum Pebble to a Pearl was used in an episode of Grey's Anatomy in season five and it was used in HMP The Peanuts Movie.
Costa is currently signed with Stax Records. She
released the studio album Pebble to a Pearl on October 14, 2008. In 2010 she released the single "Ching Ching
Ching" in Europe. The song is notable from a genre change from soul/funk
to electro-pop. The single reached #69 in Germany, making it
Costa's first single to chart in Germany since "On My Own" in 1981. A
new EP titled Pro Whoa was
released in 2011. Costa co-wrote the song "Diamonds Made from Rain"
on Eric Clapton's 2010
album Clapton.
The álbum Nikka & Strings: Underneath and in Between, consisting of covers
of rock standards, was released on June 2, 2017.
Midnight, under the moonlight
You're saying with your eyes
What I've always known
Sailor, wherever you wandered
The star that you followed
Was guiding you home
Always, now and forever
I promise to be there, you're never alone
Part II
Midnight, the feeling was so right
We kissed for the first time
That moment I knew
Magic, the sound of the music
It all was so perfect
A dream coming true
Two hearts
Are wishing on one star
Are waiting an answer
Then out of the blue
(There) came a bird flying at last
First time out of the nest
You're the sound of the wings
You're the song that she sings
Just a kiss, that was enough
To begin in this love
For the rest of my life
I'll remember that night
Midnight, the feeling was so right
We kissed for the first time
That moment I knew
Magic, the sound of the music
It all was so perfect
A dream coming true
Two hearts
Are wishing on one star
Are waiting an answer
Then out of the blue
(There) came a bird flying at last
First time out of the nest
You're the sound of the wings
You're the song that she sings
Just a kiss, that was enough
To begin in this love
For the rest of my life
I'll remember that night
Midnight, under the moonlight
You're saying with your eyes
What I've always known
Sailor, wherever you wandered
The star that you followed
Was guiding you home
Always, for now and forever
I promise to be there, you're never alone
Midnight, the feeling was so right
We kissed for the first time
That moment I knew
Magic, the sound of the music
It all was so perfect
A dream coming true
Always, for now and forever
I promise to be there, you're never alone.
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