Nicola Costa is a musician and composer, living in Rome, Italy. He started playing guitar at the age of 8. In his early teens Nicola became interested in Rock, Blues and Electric Jazz music. He grew up with the music of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Weather Report and Jeff Beck.
In the early 80's Nicola played with several bands covering a variety of musical styles and experiences. At the age of 19 he decided to pursue his musical education at the Academy of Music. Nicola is also a qualified double-bass graduate.
At the age of 23 he began session works. He has performed, on over 40 different television shows, including the Sanremo Music Festival from 2002 to 2006. He has recorded, toured and played on TV with a variety of international and italian artists like Lionel Richie, Natalie Cole, Michael Bublè, Blues Brothers, Gavin DeGraw, Jose Feliciano, Vasco Rossi, Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini, Renato Zero, Loredana Bertè, Luca Barbarossa, Amii Stewart, Alexia, Ivana Spagna, Marco Masini, Fiorella Manoia, to name a few.
In October 2007, Nicola released his first solo album "Electric Roots". The CD was well received by critics in Italy, Spain and in the US. Highlights included live performance at the most important Italian Blues Festivals. Here's a quote from a review by Tom Branson of Bluesrockers:"Nicola Costa is an extremely gifted guitarist who offers 10 tracks of original and extremely diverse instrumentals on this CD. He shows both the beauty and the beast to you here as he can nearly lull you to sleep with a track of gentle beauty, then blow the hat off your head with the fury of the beast.
I am considering this a "must own" recording for anyone who likes great blues, blues/rock, or jazz guitar work or just plain good music in general".
In 2008, Nicola toured nationally and internationally with the legendary film music composer and director Ennio Morricone.
He currently performes with his own Group, Bandamariù, Chiara Civello and Marco Mendoza.
