Cora E.

Cora E. (2005)

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Singles

Hija ( Sabrina Setlur feat. Cora E. and Brixx )   DE 35 11/22/1999 (8 weeks)

Cora E. (bourgeois Sylvia Macco ; * 1968 in Kiel ) is a German rapper and, along with groups such as Advanced Chemistry, is a pioneer of German-speaking rap . She also appeared under the name of Zulu Queen .

Life

Cora E. grew up in Kiel . She came to hip-hop culture through graffiti and breakdancing . She began rapping in German and English around the mid-1980s, and she appeared on stage for the first time in 1988. She has lived in Heidelberg since 1992 , where she worked as a nurse in the psychiatric department of the university clinic .

Cora Es music and lyrics were influenced by her acquaintance with T La Rock and a two-year stay in the USA, where she lived in Baltimore and Philadelphia . After the fall of the Wall, she worked with the Leipzig hip hop group Beside The Norm , then from 1992 with the Hamburg DJ and producer Marius No.1 and worked alongside breakdance formations such as Battle Squad or the Taino Tactix and rap groups such as Advanced Chemistry, LSD, Stieber Twins and No Remorze .

She became known through the pieces Can you hear me? (Debut Maxi 1993, re-released on Chiefrocker 2003) and Just Part of the Culture (1994). Both records were released by the Hamburg DJ Marius No. 1 is produced and published by the Hamburg independent label Buback .

After her first two records, she switched from Buback to Spin / EMI in 1995. The single Schlüsselkind was released there in 1997 , in which she sings: "... was only twelve when I tried the first beer, and even the best mother doesn't notice that her child smells of alcohol - when she drinks herself". Schlüsselkind is autobiographical and Cora E. names Roxanne Shanté as her musical role model.

Her LP CORAgE followed a year later, with the support of the Stieber Twins and Freundeskreis , among others . Also in 1998 the album Secret Recipe of the Jazzkantine was released on which Cora E. can be heard.

Cora E. is a member of the Zulu Nation . In 2002 the documentary filmmaker Petra Mäussnest portrayed Cora E. and her rap colleagues Brixx and Pyranja in the film Will once to go to the sun .

In 2001 she retired as an artist and has been leading rap workshops for children and young people ever since. In 2004 she was on the album Share the Pain II of Moses Pelham to hear and 2005 with the song Questions on the album Three shot by J-Luv .

Cora E. (2000)

Discography

album

• 1998: CORAgE (EMI)
• 1998: ... and the MC is female (MZEE)
• 1998: ... and the MC is female instrumental (MZEE)

Singles & EPs

• 1993: Can you hear me / I'll finish (with Marius No. 1, Buback)
• 1994: Only part of the culture (with Marius No. 1, Buback)
• 1996: Keep Shit raw / Fenster zum Hof (with the Taino Tactix and the Stieber Twins, MZEE )
• 1997: Key Child (MZEE)
• 1998: Show me (with Curse , EMI)
• 1999: Hija (with Brixx and Sabrina Setlur , 3p)
• 2000: Bonnie and Clyde (with Moses Pelham , 3p)

Lyrics

• Hip Hop is not a style of music, but chanting is only a part of the culture B-Boys is only a part of the culture Graffiti is only a part of the culture (refrain from "Just a part of the culture" with Marius No. 1)
• Are not four, but two / Not fantastic, but real / We go into battle with handmade weapons / Every word and every syllable, every sentence has it / Are my rhymes already too full / I will create a spare space. ("Can you hear me" with Marius No. 1)
• I almost drowned, sank, but I was lucky / The wave from America washed me back to land / I began to live, got active / and dreamed for the first time without sleeping (key child)
• Without the dance, without the art, what you do would only be rap, so show respect for b-boys and writers ("Only a part of culture" with Marius No. 1, 3rd verse)
• And so I dedicate my last rhyme - to culture and it will never be just music ("Only a part of culture" with Marius No. 1, 3rd verse)

literature

• Monika Regelin: Cora E. Rapper from Heidelberg . In: Lots of women. Detected in Baden-Württemberg. 47 portraits, Stuttgart: Theiss 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1525-1 , pp. 30–33.

Web links

• Cora E. at the Buback label
• Cora E at the Chiefrocker label
• Cora E. at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts Germany
2. ^ Laut.de biography Cora E.
3. ↑ Article on intro.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.