Live In NYC Nicole Bus

• 1 Rain 04:56
• 2 Friend Indeed 04:38
• 3 Look Up To The Sky 04:03
• 4 Love It 04:33
• 5 Turn Your Lights Down Low 02:27
• 6 S.O.S 03:38
• 7 Comfort Me 03:32
• 8 Mr. Big Shot 03:33
• 9 You 04:01
• Total Runtime 35:21

Info for Live In NYC

Breakout R&B/Soul artist Nicole Bus performed songs from her debut album KAIROS during a private Unplugged NYC event in Oct. 2019. At the heart of Nicole’s unique sound is which draws on Rock, Jazz, Funk, Soul and more. Nicole Bus' sound is nostalgic. It's reminiscent of vintage R&B, yet still feels current, and can transcend age and demographics.

When asked, about the meaning of the word KAIROS Nicole goes on to say that it is the Greek word for “appointed time”, “Everything is coming together at the right time.”

Growing up in a small Holland village, Nicole Bus vividly recalls listening to Sade, Bob Marley, and various gospel artists a la Ron Kenoly alongside her dad. On weekends, she sang in church before eventually picking up a keyboard at ten-years-old and cooking up countless rudimentary beats on 8MB floppy disks.

In high school, a mentor who gave her theater and dance lessons introduced her to Lauryn Hill by way of the artist’s seminal MTV Unplugged performance, and it proved nothing short of lifechanging. “It showed me how to put all of my emotion and passion into music,” she elaborates

Nicole Bus

Nicole Bus
is a singer and songwriter with a potent, soul-rooted approach to contemporary R&B. Although she made her album debut on major-label EMI with The Heart of the Matter (2011), she truly broke through a couple years later as a quarter finalist on The Voice of Holland. The exposure led to additional solo releases, including Magnolia (2017) and Kairos (2019), the latter of which was released on Roc Nation. A broad assortment of music, including gospel, reggae, and pop, reached Nicole Bus as she grew up in her native Holland. At a young age, she was singing in church, and had started playing keyboards, making beats, and writing songs. After high school, she continued to study music and perform while attending Conservatorium van Amsterdam, traveling with groups throughout the Netherlands, Central America, Middle East, and Western and Southeast Asia. Bus eventually broke out on her own. She released her debut EP in 2009 and won the Grand Prize of the Netherlands in 2010, and then, signed with the Dutch division of major-label EMI, released her debut full-length, The Heart of the Matter, in 2011. Two years later, she competed in the fourth season of The Voice of Holland and reached the quarter finals. Magnolia, her second album, along with the EP T.O.T.A., followed in 2017. Close work with producer Needlz (50 Cent, Bruno Mars, Cardi B) led to a deal with Roc Nation, the outlet for Bus' 2018 single "You." The emotive hip-hop soul throwback, seemingly inspired by Lauryn Hill and Jazmine Sullivan in roughly equal measures, was written in honor of black men and topped Billboard's Adult R&B chart. "You" and follow-up single "Mr. Big Shot" were featured on the 2019 full-length Kairos, most of which was produced by Needlz. (Andy Kellman, AMG)

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