Nicki Nicole heals her “Soul” on new album

Argentinian urban artist Nicki Nicole went through a process of healing and empowerment that led to her third album “Soul” in which he reveals influences such as bolero, tango and electronic music.

“I think that if one day I have a daughter I’ll name her ‘Alma’”, Nicole imagined in a recent interview by video call from Argentina. “I realize that I love that name and that Alma actually represents all of us, because it is what we are a little bit in spirit.

This is his third album after “Recuerdos” and “Parte de mí”. It is accompanied by a triangular concept in which each side is the soul, the heart and the mind.

“It’s called the assemblage point,” he said of this triangle. “When mind, heart and soul are in tune, it’s like when everything works and everything works out. AND I healed a lot with this album and when we really found the concept and everything was when everything had that connection and that tune, that’s why I felt it was essential to put this name (to the album)”.

Among what Nicole managed to repair was learning to silence those voices that questioned her about her decisions.

“I think what I had to heal was a bit of emotional dependency“, he claimed. “I was very dependent on what they would say… I had no criteria, I was so insecure, so dependent, that anyone could come and make me believe that I liked something or that this was not going.”

“It was that path, going for emotional independence,” he added.

With the release of his album, Nicole premiered the video for “SHOOT (asterisk)(asterisk)(asterisk)” on Thursday. song that he interprets with Milo J. The video was filmed in the areas of La Boca and Quilmes in Buenos Aires, in which both appear in an old car driven by the rapper.

“That video is incredible, I had always wanted to make a good hip hop video, with fisheye shots and stuff and I feel like we re-achieved it,” said Nicole.

The singer-songwriter met Milo J a few months ago.

“He is 16 years old, which flashes me (impresses) because I am 22 and he takes me like 3 heads,” she said with a smile. “I knew him obviously through his music, I love it, and we met physically to do the song, and there we really connected a lot and I think it’s not going to be the only song we do.

Nicole included in her album the bolero “Tuyo” by Rodrigo Amarantewhich he met from the soundtrack of the series “Narcos”.

“I was in high school and we had an act to sing and I sang that song, like every time I hear it it reminds me a lot of that side of me as a dreamy singer, that the only place I sang was at my school, in that theater stage we had,” Nicole said. “It brings back a lot of nice memories and I felt that if I had to do a cover, it had to be that one.”.

“NO voy a llorar :’)”, one of the pieces he released as a preview of the album, is a kind of modern response to this bolero. Her lyrics speak of great spite and pain when she is convinced that a love cannot be.

“It’s like half tango, it’s something, especially in the endings of the melodies that have that structure, more like the tango of before. When it comes to creating music, we never set limits, I mean us, speaking of my producer, ”he explained. “When I listen to tango I always remember my grandfather, so it makes me very nostalgicWhen we did that song we went that way, the side of nostalgia and the side of memory”.

The song has a night video recorded in the streets of the Argentine capital, directed by Lucas Vignale. It begins with Nicole in a bathtub while her digitally edited voice soundswhich makes it sound like the classic “little squirrel” effect.

“They are samples that were used a lot in hip hop, that little voice that today is called Alvin and the Chipmunks,” he said. “But really they are samples that have been used since the early 90s, they have been used by most of my artists and I felt that I had to be a part of that.”

“8 AM” its guest is the Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko, whom he met the day they met in the studio to record the song.

“We only had one day to make the song, the next day she played at Lolla (Lollapalooza) in Argentina, so she had to rest, there was no other time, “said Nicole. “And the song came out, it was like instantaneous… In the song we also threw a Spanglish suitable for all audiences.”