Antoniette Costa is a singer-songwriter who is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but now resides in Philadelphia. She is currently an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania where she studies English and Italian. Antoniette started writing music in middle school and since then has recorded two full-length albums, in which she wrote both the music and lyrics to each track. She released her debut CD “Breakthru” in her sophomore year at Cornell. The album was well received and ranked 2 on Amazon’s Early Adopter Indie Music Chart and 69 on the Early Adopter All Music Chart. After transferring to UPenn, Antoniette began work on her second album “Madman,” still to be released. She collaborated with Dice Raw rapper and A&R for “The Roots” and Khari "Ferrari" Mateen and John-John who produced many of the tracks on “Game Theory,” the latest release of “The Roots.” The past two summers Antoniette interned in NYC in the Marketing Departments for Columbia Records and MTV. While attending Cornell University, she performed locally in Ithaca, New York as a lead singer in the band LR9. She sang in the Cornell’s How Excellent Gospel Choir and her highlight performance still remains singing with the group for Yolanda King, in Cornell’s Sage Chapel where her father Martin Luther King, Jr. had given a speech over 40 years ago. Antoniette will begin performing her new material soon.
