Nikka Costa

Domenica "Nikka" Costa (born , Tokyo, Japan) is an Australian-American singer-songwriter, whose music has elements of pop, soul, funk, blues, progressive rock, new wave, synth-pop and electropop. She began her singing career as a child singer in the early 1980. She is also a movie actress and professional mermaid.

 Biography 
Costa's career as a recording artist with her own name began in 1981. That year, she recorded the song "Out Here on My Own". Her self-titled album was released outside the United States in the same year. Costa then toured the world. Her second album, Fairy Tales, was released in 1983 shortly before his father's death. 

Between 1983 and 1990, Costa sang covers of The Angels' 1963 song "My Boyfriend's Back" and Disney's 1989 song "Part of Your World" (the latter, taken from The Little Mermaid).

Costa moved away from childhood pop to mature soul, progressive rock and electropop in the 1990s. She signed to the Mushroom record label in Australia. In 1996, she released the studio album Butterfly Rocket in Australia. The album led to Costa being nominated for an ARIA Music Awards Breakthrough Artist in 1996 and the Best Female Artist in 1997.

In 2000, Costa's song "Like a Feather" was shown in a Tommy Hilfiger television advertising campaign. The exposure and the song's music video helped launch her United States music career. In 2001, her album Everybody Got Their Something was released. It hit #120 on the U.S. Billboard 200.

Costa later signed to Stax. She released her studio album Pebble to a Pearl on .

 Curiosities 
 Sports career and other passions 
In addition to music, her passions are swimming (both in the pool and in the sea), running, artistic gymnastics, classical ballet, acting, pizza, fruit ice creams, Disney cartoons, and dolls.

 Private life 
She is married with Australian producer-songwriter Justin Stanley, with whom she has a daughter Sugar McQueen (2006), and a son, Suede (2013).

  Discography 
 Nikka Costa (1981)
 Fairy Tales (1983)
 Here I Am… Yes, It's Me (1989)
 Butterfly Rocket (1992)
 Everybody Got Their Something (2001)
 Can'tneverdidnothin' (2005)
 Pebble to Pearl (2008)
 Pro*Whoa! (2011)
 Nikka & Strings, Undermeath and in Beetween (2017)
 And other singles not included in albums

 References 

 Others websites 
 Nikka Costa's website

Category:American singer-songwriters
Category:Singers from Los Angeles
Category:People from Beverly Hills, California
Category:American child singers
Category:American pop singers
Category:American soul singers
Category:American funk singers
Category:American blues singers
Category:Progressive rock singers
Category:New wave singers
Category:Synth-pop singers
Category:Electropop singers
Category:American guitarists
Category:American movie actors
Category:American child actors
Category:American dancers
Category:American gymnasts
Category:American swimmers
Category:1972 births
Category:Living people