Naïka at Somerset House: A performance straight from her soul

Naïka comes onto the Somerset House stage with the force of a body-rolling angel. Dressed in a floaty white mini-skirt and bralet set, draped in a floor-length cloak and paired with matching Jimmy Choo knee-high boots, she is an immediate, intoxicating vision.“I’m so happy to be here,” she gushes. But though she greets us – “you guys look beautiful” – for the early part of her set, we are very much observers of her world. The opening track from her debut album ‘ECLESIA’, ‘Welcome to Eclesia’, sets the tone: she struts, drops to her knees and flicks her hair with the honed instincts of a natural-born performer.All of it is hard to fault: Naïka has glistening, pitch-perfect vocals from start to finish. ‘Soleil’ – sung entirely in French before seamlessly blending into ‘Killing Me Softly’ – s