Permalink Reply by rhea on October 25, 2009 at 4:59pm
Ha you and I had the exact same idea...just spent a while looking it up, you beat me to it :)
It does sound Nikka-ish...hmmmmmmm...maybe NIKKA WILL ANSWER. Please.
The lead vocals don't sound like her but the backing vocals sure do. And sure enough, I found this comment on another video of the same song, though who knows how much we can trust the source:
"The song is called HOLD ON, and was written by Justin Stanley and Nikka Costa, and was performed by a friend of Nikka's. The real song only lasts 2 minutes and includes lyrics. I'm currently trying to get it from someone from IMDB. If I succeed, I'll happily send it to whom may be interested."
Sounds good, thanks for sharing this treat. It's nice to see the board buzzin' again. I can believe that Justin and Nikka may have wrote this, but I'm with jackiecane...it does not sound like Nikka singing the lead vocal to me. The brief background harmony could definately pass as Nikka though (if Nikka did indeed help write it). I'm curious to find out who did write/sing this. Nikka deserved to put her voice on this little track, I wonder why she didn't. It would have sounded better to me...no offense to who may have sang this!
Here's what I think...
Nikka might be helping somebody get recognized in the music industry and get their foot out there.... or, be playing with some voice alteration by playing with her equipment...lol, by holding some funny smoke in...lol (doubt that seriously, though still a possibility)...or had nothing to do with this project.
Bottom line to me is... We need Nikka here to settle it...lol! WE MISS HER ON THE FORUM!!!