Deborah Cox, Vocal and Smooth jazz Artist

This Canadian born songstress is an R&B/Pop singer-songwriter and recipient of three Juno Awards.  She was born in Toronto to parents of Afro-Guyanese descent, and as a teenager wrote music and performed in nightclubs.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Genre: Smooth Jazz, R&B, Pop

Deborah Cox began singing on TV commercials at age 12, and entered various talent shows with the help of her mother.  She performed in nightclubs as a teenager, and began to write music around the same time.  She entered the music industry in the early 1990s, performing as a backup vocalist for Celine Dion for six months.  After receiving many rejection letters from Canadian record labels that claimed their “quota” had been reached, Cox moved to Los Angeles in 1994 with producer and songwriting partner, Lascelles Stephens.

In 1995, label executive Clive Davis signed Cox to Arista Records, and she released her self-titled debut album the same year.  After middling success, Cox released a non-album single for the soundtrack to the 1997 movie Money Talks, titled “Things Just Ain’t The Same”.  A dance mix of the song with a remix by Hex Hector topped the U.S. dance charts and was included on her second album, 1998’s One Wish.

The first single from that album, “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here”, spent fourteen weeks at #1 on the Hot R&B charts in the USA, as well as eight consecutive weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.  The album went platinum, becoming Cox’s biggest-selling album to date.  Cox then recorded a new song, “Absolutely Not”, for the soundtrack to Dr. Dolittle 2.  Remixes of the song repeated the success of One Wish’s singles on the dance charts, and the Hex Hector Chanel Mix of “Absolutely Not” was included on her third album.  After One Wish, Cox appeared on the single “Same Script, Different Cast” by Whitney Houston from Whitney: The Greatest Hits.

Biographical information courtesy of Wikipedia and Deborah Cox; for more reading see links below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Cox

http://www.deborahcox.com/bio/