She was a long way from the sunny confines of the Los Angeles city limits, but you didn’t hear Nikka Costa complaining as her caravan maneuvered its way from Seattle through the frigid confines of North Dakota.

“There’s a little snow and a lot of openness,” she said as she admitted to struggling to stay warm. “North Dakota isn’t as bad as Montana.

“It’s pretty but it’s barren - it’s no L.A.”

Costa brings her show to the Motor City at 7 tonight at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit.

The 28-year-old is no stranger to the stage or the music industry, at age 7 she was opening for 300,000 fans of the Police in Chile. Not only was her first record released 20 years ago, her godfather was Frank Sinatra and her arranger-producer father took her all over the world.

But Costa’s earlier work was mostly her singing George Gershwin with a full orchestra, something she says is “very different” from her latest release “Everybody Got Their Something,” which spawned the hit singles “Like a Feather” and “Some Kind of Beautiful.”

“This album is a much truer example of who I am as an artist than anything I’ve done before,” Costa said. “This album is like a debut for me all over again.”

Her live show boasts an eight-piece band complete with backup singers, a disc jockey and horns.

“It’s really high energy,” she said. “It gets really sweaty up there sometimes. Very hot.”

And the crowd promises to be as diverse as her music, something Costa prides herself on.

“Well we draw a total mixture of people, all ages, styles and vibes,” she said. “Like my music, it’s all over the place. I think a lot of different kinds of people are into a lot of different kinds of music, and that’s why I made the record I did.”