#6- 10 White Singers We Once Thought Were Black

Nikka Costa

This soul voice had everyone grooving to it and most assumed it was a black voice.  Well you know what they say about assuming ... "when you assume, you make and "ASS" out of  "U" and "ME" LOL.  Anyways Nikka  Costa make the list of 10 for one of those voices we once though were black.

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 musical Fame). The single, recorded in Milano with the conductor Victor Bach and produced by Besquet and Renis, spent fourteen weeks at #1 in Italy, nine weeks at #1 in Spain, and five weeks at #1 in France. The song also reached #7 in Switzerland and #32 in the Netherlands. The album Nikka Costa, produced by Besquet and Remis, was released outside the U.S. in 1981. The album reached #1 in Europe and South America^{[citation needed]} and Costa toured around the world.^[1] 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 album Here I Am... Yes, It's Me was released to fulfill a contractual obligation in 1989, though it still topped some charts in Europe.^[1] In 1990 she performed at the SanRemo Music Festival with a rendition of All for the Love, an English version of Vattene amore by Mietta and Amedeo Minghi.
After graduating from high school, Costa decided to move away from pop and moved toward funk and soul, becoming influenced by Motown artists