Thursday 4 August 2011

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Deborah Cox - Who Do U Love!

Canada is always getting dismissed, Whether its to do with the Gilmore Girls or South Park mocking them. But what people seem to forget is that Canada has brought us many talents such as Alanis Morrisette, Celine Dion and Drake and Deborah Cox is no exception.

Canada's top R&B singer. Cox once held the record for longest running number one single for her hit 'Nobody's Supposed To Be Here' on Billboards Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks for 14 weeks. She held that record for nearly 8 years.

Cox was a backing vocalist for Celine Dion for 6 months. After being rejected by Canadian labels, she moved to LA in 1994 with songwriter/producer partner Lascelles Stephens. That was the best choice she made at that time. In 1995, Clive Davis signed Cox to his label Arista Records and then she released a self titled album in the same year.

She had 2 albums after that, 'One Wish' and 'The Morning After' which was released in 2002. She then went on to do Broadway in the big production of Aida, directed by Elton John and Tim Rice. Her solo music career seemed to be going down hill. Cox was only getting asked to feature on movie soundtracks. She's featured on movie soundtracks such as 'Money Talks', 'Dr Dolittle2', 'Hotel Rawanda' and 'Akeelah and the Bee'.

Between 2005 and 2006, Cox recorded her fourth album which was a tribute to jazz singer Dinah Washington. The album was then released in 2007. In September 2009 a major announcement was made, It was said that Deborah Cox was to join Kelly Price and Tamia to create a super group called 'The Queen Project'. Their debut single 'Queen' was supposed to be released in 2010 alongside a self titled album. But as we all know about the music industry, somethings work and some don't.

For me, my favourite Deborah Cox track is and always will be 'Who Do U Love' I remember seeing the video and being amazed by her beauty and her vocals, I'm so glad I can share this with you guys.

Watch the video below and let me know what you think.

3 comments:

  1. "It was aid" ??

    "Between 2005 and and 2005" ??

    "Queen was supposed to be released in 2019" ??

    ????

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  2. Apologies for the typo error, 'Anonymous' thank you for pointing it out for me all updated and ammended. Enjoy :-)

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  3. Cool. Liking the blog by the way :-)

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