Get this: we started off a conversation with multi-talented songwriter and producer Nick Nittoli about his own music and artistic career and the first he says is:
“Well, to begin I should mention the fact that my grandparents were songwriters and actually wrote a song for Frank Sinatra.”
With such an opening statement, everything takes a different route!
“I started out playing guitar when I was a kid – he continues – and really loved punk rock music. I started bands, and worked on my skills to the point that I knew I was going to do something in music. I would sit down and play Nirvana, and blink 182 songs in my bedroom until I began writing my own songs”
Nick actually dabbled in literally every genre possible and when we asked him what his main goal with his career was he simply said:
“I literally wanna have songs charting in every possible genre, from Hip Hop to Metal!”
His latest single “Place For Us” is a song about “questioning where we go after this life on earth, and it came about by really wondering about these things in my daily life. I truly wonder about these things and it’s one of those questions that we will never have the true answer to until we leave this earth. So I wanted to make a song about it, and get people to question it, and explore it through my lyrics.”
Nick’s story, however, is highly connected to his TV appearance on BRAVO’s Platinum Hit
“I went to that show because I wanted to show the world my own music and artistry! I don’t regret it at all but looking back I am so grateful that I didn’t win. It only made me stronger, and I wouldn’t have become a producer, and work as hard as I did had I won the show/competition back in 2011. It drove me to be the artist and producer that I am today.
After all, it led to some of the proudest moments in my career like when Snoop Dogg said my first and last name on a track that we did together called “Fire” by Skyler Chissell or when I got signed to Bump Into Genius/ Warner Chappell. I had worked so hard to get signed and to finally get my deal, and a studio at Jim Henson Studios was like a dream come true.”
Nick’s career is only at the beginning and it serves as a lucid inspiration for all of those independent artists who are struggling to cut through the noise.
“I think that independent artists are truly taking over. No longer do you need a label or publisher, or even a manager to do everything for you. You can do it yourself! So I think that this really changes the entire industry. Although I am signed to Warner Chappell, I still conduct my business as if I was an independent artist. I produce and write all of my own music, I direct and edit my own music video and I really promote my own project! I think that more artists will begin doing the same.”
