Deborah Cox

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Deborah Cox at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (2009)
Deborah Cox at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (2009)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Deborah Cox
  US 102 
gold
gold
10/28/1995 (16 weeks)
One wish
  US 72 
platinum
platinum
10/17/1998 (46 weeks)
The Morning After
  US 38 11/23/2002 (8 weeks)
Destination Moon
  US 175 07/07/2007 (1 week)
The Promise
  US 160 11/29/2008 (2 weeks)
Singles
Sentimental
  UK 34 11/11/1995 (3 weeks)
  US 27 09/09/1995 (20 weeks)
Who Do U Love
  UK 31 02/24/1996 (3 weeks)
  US 17th 02/03/1996 (20 weeks)
Where Do We Go from Here
  US 48 07/06/1996 (14 weeks)
The Sound of My Tears
  US 97 01/04/1997 (4 weeks)
Things just ain't the same
  US 56 07/05/1997 (17 weeks)
Nobody's Supposed to Be Here
  DE 51 02/01/1999 (9 weeks)
  UK 55 10/09/1999 (1 week)
  US 2 
platinum
platinum
10/03/1998 (29 weeks)
  CA 8th 10/03/1998 (20 weeks)
It's over now
  UK 49 07/31/1999 (1 week)
  US 70 05/22/2009 (6 weeks)
We Can't Be Friends (with RL )
  US 8th 
gold
gold
09/11/1999 (20 weeks)
Same Script, Different Cast (with Whitney Houston )
  US 70 06/17/2000 (9 weeks)
Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
  US 95 03/06/2004 (1 week)

Deborah Cox (born July 13, 1974 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian singer and occasional actress. Her main successes so far have been in R&B , pop and dance . Her biggest and most famous hit, Nobody's Supposed to Be Here , hit the charts worldwide in 1998.

Career

Deborah Cox, who started singing as a small child and took part in numerous talent competitions, first attracted attention in the early 1990s when she sang in the background for her Canadian colleague Celine Dion . Clive Davis , who had made Whitney Houston big in the 80s , signed her for his then label Arista . The debut Deborah Cox was produced with great effort , on which top-class R&B and pop producers and songwriters participated: Dallas Austin , Daryl Simmons , Babyface and Diane Warren . With the two singles Sentimental and Who Do U Love , the powerful Cox achieved two hits in the international charts. The album went gold in the US, but stayed at number 102 on the charts. In her homeland, the singer was honored with the Juno Award , Canada's highest musical award, for the best R&B recording.

For the next album, One Wish , Cox took his time until 1998. The sleek R&B ballad Nobody's Supposed to Be Here contained in it helped Cox become a real hit when the single reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the R&B charts in the United States at the end of the year . She held the top position for 14 weeks, which at the time meant a record that was only achieved in 2005 by Mariah Carey ( We Belong Together ) and broken in 2006 by Mary J. Blige ( Be Without You ). A dance mix of this recording was also very successful, placed on the American dance charts and was also noted in Europe. The single sold over a million copies and went platinum for it , as did the album One Wish , although it did not rank very high in the American album charts. With We Can't Be Friends (duet with RL Huggar from Next ) another top 10 hit that went gold. Clive Davis' high expectations of placing a new Whitney Houston were not fulfilled, but he took Cox with him to his newly founded label J Records in 2000 .

In the same year the song Same Script, Different Cast , a duet by Cox and Houston, was released, which also had only moderate success (No. 70 in the USA). For the soundtrack to Dr. Dolittle 2 contributed the song Absolutely Not to Cox in 2001 - again number 1 in the US dance charts. The subsequent CD The Morning After (2002) initially placed well in the USA, but since the associated singles, apart from the dance charts, were not very successful, interest in the album quickly waned again.

Numerous singles were released in the following years that continued to establish Cox as a dance singer. She also made her Broadway debut in 2004 in the Elton-John / Tim-Rice musical Aida . With her fourth album Destination Moon she undertook a surprising change of direction: the jazz work was conceived as a tribute to the legendary singer Dinah Washington . The reviews were mixed, according to Der Spiegel : "The whole thing sounds too smooth and too full, too far away from the blues and too close to the gala and the show stairs." Nevertheless, Destination Moon was nominated for a Juno Award for best jazz album.

In the 2005 film Blood of a Champion , she played the rollers of Sharon . For the soundtrack to Akeelah is the greatest , Cox contributed the song Definition Of Love in 2006 .

Cox made her R&B comeback in late 2008 with The Promise , which she released on her own indie label Deco. Nevertheless, she had great success in the dance charts with the single Beautiful UR : she was able to celebrate her tenth number 1 there!

Cox currently lives in Miami, Florida. She is married to her manager Lascelles Stephens. They have three children: Isaiah (* 2003), Sumayah (* 2006) and Kaila Michelle (* 2009).

Albums

Studio

  • 1995: Deborah Cox (Arista) (CA:platinumplatinum)
  • 1998: One Wish (Arista) (CA:goldgold)
  • 2002: The Morning After (J-Records)
  • 2007: Destination Moon (Decca)
  • 2008: The Promise (Deco / Image)

Compilations

  • 2003: Remixed (J-Records)
  • 2004: Ultimate Deborah Cox (Arista)

Songs

  • 2009: Beautiful UR (CA:platinumplatinum)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US CA
  3. ↑ Deborah Cox in the Official UK Charts (English)
  4. ↑ Biography on Allmusic
  5. ↑ Deborah Cox in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  6. ↑ a b c RIAA Record Awards Database (Search: Deborah Cox)
  7. ↑ CD review, Allmusic
  8. ↑ CD review, Der Spiegel
  9. ↑ moviesoundweb.com
  10. ^ News, Billboard
  11. ↑ Deborah Cox Genealogy on MyHeritage .de

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Cox, Deborah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario