Nicolette
"Life Loves Us", Nicolette´s 3rd album, is a life-affirming, true and uplifting river of sound; twelve quirky, catchy songs plus soundbytes!
NICOLETTE BIOGRAPHY
Nicolette was born in Scotland to Nigerian parents. She was exposed to a huge variety of music by her music-loving father (including African, Jazz and Blues, Musicals, Classical, George Formby, Country, Calypso, and assorted oddities) and mother (Motown, James Brown, sixties and seventies pop, and assorted oddities.) Her father encouraged her musical inclinations by teaching her and her siblings to perform a wide variety of music. Nicolette describes her family at this time as “a black Family Von Trapp”! Later the family returned to Nigeria, which added to Nicolette‘s musical melting pot; she began to invent a sound for herself that would later be described as "Billie Holliday on acid"; but to her, it´s more "a mystic brew".
Later, Nicolette put aside her academic aspirations and opted for a music career. Her distinctive sensuous voice was heard at gigs. Very soon, she was seduced by the strangeness and energy of London´s underground dance music scene, and she moved there. She was immediately signed by Shut Up And Dance, breakbeat pioneers and inventors of Drum n Bass. Their collaboration was exciting for both Nicolette and the dance scene (combining as it did Nicolette‘s dreamy soft vocals and Shut Up And Dance‘s hardcore backing) creating a powerful new sound that took the underground dance scene by storm! Nicolette‘s first single “School of the World/Single-Minded People”, more singles and an album ("Now Is Early"), met with the same enthusiasm. Next, Nicolette co-wrote and sang two songs on Massive Attack´s "Protection" album before being signed to Talking Loud and releasing several singles and an enthusiastically-received album ("Let No-One Live RentFree In Your Head", 1996). Leaving Talking Loud in 1998, Nicolette set up her own label, Early Records. Having released several singles on the label, her 3rd album "Life Loves Us" came out worldwide on Early Records in 2005 and 2006. "Life Loves Us" tells the real truth about
NICOLETTE BIOGRAPHY
Nicolette was born in Scotland to Nigerian parents. She was exposed to a huge variety of music by her music-loving father (including African, Jazz and Blues, Musicals, Classical, George Formby, Country, Calypso, and assorted oddities) and mother (Motown, James Brown, sixties and seventies pop, and assorted oddities.) Her father encouraged her musical inclinations by teaching her and her siblings to perform a wide variety of music. Nicolette describes her family at this time as “a black Family Von Trapp”! Later the family returned to Nigeria, which added to Nicolette‘s musical melting pot; she began to invent a sound for herself that would later be described as "Billie Holliday on acid"; but to her, it´s more "a mystic brew".
Later, Nicolette put aside her academic aspirations and opted for a music career. Her distinctive sensuous voice was heard at gigs. Very soon, she was seduced by the strangeness and energy of London´s underground dance music scene, and she moved there. She was immediately signed by Shut Up And Dance, breakbeat pioneers and inventors of Drum n Bass. Their collaboration was exciting for both Nicolette and the dance scene (combining as it did Nicolette‘s dreamy soft vocals and Shut Up And Dance‘s hardcore backing) creating a powerful new sound that took the underground dance scene by storm! Nicolette‘s first single “School of the World/Single-Minded People”, more singles and an album ("Now Is Early"), met with the same enthusiasm. Next, Nicolette co-wrote and sang two songs on Massive Attack´s "Protection" album before being signed to Talking Loud and releasing several singles and an enthusiastically-received album ("Let No-One Live RentFree In Your Head", 1996). Leaving Talking Loud in 1998, Nicolette set up her own label, Early Records. Having released several singles on the label, her 3rd album "Life Loves Us" came out worldwide on Early Records in 2005 and 2006. "Life Loves Us" tells the real truth about
