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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH<br />
NOTHING BUT YOU<br />
Nothing But You is a<br />
unique San Francisco<br />
bay area artistic<br />
endeavor blending<br />
ambient coloring with<br />
a lounge flavor. This<br />
creates the perfect<br />
setting for Nicky's<br />
sensual and soulful<br />
voice. Along with Phill<br />
the duo creates a<br />
beautiful sound<br />
collage of Rock, Soul,<br />
and Jazz.<br />
Singer Nicky took<br />
some time to give an<br />
exclusive interview<br />
about her incredible<br />
life and future plans.<br />
BY JEREMIAH FOSTER<br />
“MEANT TO BE”<br />
First of all, congratulations on the new album “Meant To Be”.<br />
Thank you very much!!^^<br />
What were the inspirations for the album?<br />
After the age of 50, I made up my mind not to listen to my friends in Japan complaining<br />
about the emptiness and sadness of life. I said, “ Life starts at 50. I will prove that<br />
nothing is impossible!”<br />
That’s because I challenged a lot of famous auditions since I had no idea how to promote<br />
myself. The famous TV show such as The Voice and America’s Got Talent’s audition<br />
judges told me “You are going to be a great singer but it does not match the theme of the<br />
TV show on this point.”<br />
At age 54, On February 9, 2016, during her “The Voice” audition in Chicago to get a<br />
chance of becoming a Diva, I received an email from my junior high school friend in<br />
Japan about their upcoming reunion. And just by chance, my friend mentioned Phill, my<br />
childhood crush when I was in Junior high school. 40 years passed and the friend's mail,<br />
just be the chance, got me and Phill reconnected again. Phill had become a genius artist<br />
with a great sense of music, art, hair & makeup and fashion who would be able to make<br />
me world famous Diva as my producer. Phill and I - powerful collaboration was started<br />
forming the music unit “Nothing But You”<br />
I had been singing for 30years just like Whitney Houston but Phill told me you have your<br />
own beautiful voice not a copy of anybody else....”Stay out shouting and sing it from your<br />
heart with your own voice”. Phill does not play any instruments but he knows about any<br />
kinds of music because he had been listening all kind of music with the eyes and ears of<br />
his heart. I went to Karaoke studio and sing followed his advice then let him listen my<br />
recorded sound.....that’s how we created our own music world. I live in San Francisco<br />
and he lives in Tokyo but we had no problem creating our own music world using SNS<br />
tools. My dream and his dream from childhood became true because of our Reunion. We<br />
thought our Reunion was Meant to Be!!<br />
So I asked my friend, Shota Osabe(Pianist) and Jerry Stucker(Guitarist) to help to make<br />
our first CD "Meant to Be" together. Phill and I wanted to send some messages to the<br />
world of “Love! Never Give up! Keep Dreaming!” due to healing people’s heart.
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