Deborah Cox, kaiwaiata, kaitito waiata, kaitapere wahine (i whanau i te Hurae 13, 1974 i Toronto, Ontario). Ko ia tetahi o nga kaitoi R&B o Kanata, a he maha nga tohu a Juno me nga tohu Grammy i whakawhiwhia ki a ia.
E rongonuihia ana ia mo tana reo kaha, reo wairua, me tana poi poikiri. "Nobody's Supposed To Be Here", mai i tana kopae tuarua, One Wish (1998), i whakatakoto te rekoata mo te roopu R&B roa rawa atu i te United States, ka noho ki te tihi o nga raarangi Billboard R&B Singles mo nga wiki 1. .
E ono ana tangata oke 20 Billboard R&B me te 12 No. 1 i runga i te Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. He kaitapere wahine angitu ano ia kua puta ki nga kiriata maha me Broadway. He tautoko roa mo nga mana LGBTQ, he maha nga tohu kua whakawhiwhia e ia mo ana mahi atawhai me ana mahi whakaihiihi.
Nga tau moata me te mahi
I whanau a Cox i Toronto ki nga matua o Afro-Guyanese. I tipu ake ia i roto i te whare puoro i Scarborough, a, i whakaatu wawe ia i te hiahia ki te waiata. Ko ona awe i roto ko Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, me Whitney Houston, i kiia e ia he whakapakoko.
Ka mihi ia ki a Miles Davis i te mutunga o te tekau tau atu i 1980 na tana kitenga i nga riipene o ana puoro hei hurihanga i roto i ana mahi. I te 12 o ona tau, i timata ia ki te waiata i nga mahi hokohoko me te uru atu ki nga whakataetae taranata. I a ia e taiohi ana, i timata ia ki te tuhi waiata me te mahi i roto i nga karapu po i raro i te tirotiro a tona whaea.
I haere a Cox ki te kura tuatahi o John XXIII Catholic Elementary i Scarborough, Claude Watson School of Arts, me Earl Haig High School i Toronto. I te kura tuarua, i tutaki ia ki a Lascelles Stevens, i muri mai ka noho tana tane. He hoa waiata, he kaiwhakahaere, he kaihanga hoki.
Whai muri i tana mahi kore ki tetahi tapanga Kanata, ka neke ia ki Los Angeles i te tau 1994 me Stevens ki te whakapiki ake i tana mahi. I roto i nga marama e ono, ka noho ia hei kaiwaiata tautoko mo Céline Dion, a, i a ia e haereere ana, i tutaki ia ki te kaihanga puoro rongonui a Clive Davis, i whakaae ki te whakaputa i tana kopae waiata tuatahi.
Deborah Cox (1995)
I tukuna e Deborah Cox (1995) he ranunga o te pop me te R&B i runga i te tapanga Arista a Davis. Na roto i te mahi tahi me nga tangata rongonui penei i a Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds me Daryl Simmons, kua whakamanahia te konukawata i Kanata mo nga hoko neke atu i te 100 kape me te koura i Amerika mo nga hoko neke atu i te 000 kape.
Ko te pukaemi i whakaatu i nga kaiwaiata rongonui "Sentimental" i eke ki te nama 4 i runga i te raarangi Waiata R&B/Hip-Hop Billboard me te "Who Do U Love" i eke ki te Nama 1 i runga i te Billboard Hot Dance Club Waiata me te nama 17 i runga. Papa panui. Hot 100.
I te tau 1996, i toa a Cox i te Tohu Juno mo te R&B/Soul Recording pai rawa atu, a, i tohua mo Best Soul/R&B i te American Music Awards. I te tau 1997, i tohua ia mo te Kaiwaiata Wahine o te Tau i nga Tohu Juno.
Ko tana waiata "Ko nga mea kaore i pera", i whakaatuhia i roto i te kiriata Money Talks (1997), i toa i te Waiata Pai
Kotahi Hiahia (1998)
Ko te pukaemi tuarua a Cox, ko One Wish (1998), i tino rongonui ia. Kua rite ki a ia me tana whakapakoko Whitney Houston. Ko te kotahi "Nobody's Supposed To Be Here" i rongonui, ka whakatakoto he rekoata hou mo te R&B Single No.
I angitu ano te kotahi i runga i nga papaa papa; i tae ki te #2 i runga i te Billboard Hot 100 me te tohu konukawata i te United States. Ko tetahi Wish kua tohu koura i Kanata me te konukawata i te US. I whakaingoatia ano ia mo te Tohu Whakaahua NAACP mo te Kaitoi Wahine Tino Pai.
The Morning After (2002)
I te tau 2002, i tukuna e Cox tana pukaemi studio tuatoru, i mahia e ia i raro i te taitara The Morning After. I tukuna i runga i te tapanga J, ko te pukaemi i eke ki te #7 i runga i te Runga R&B/Hip-Hop Albums tūtohi me te #38 i te Billboard Hot 200. Mr. Mokemoke and Play Your Role i runga katoa i te rarangi o nga waiata Karapu Kanikani. Kore rawa i whakaingoatia mo te Tohu Juno 2001 mo te Rekoata Kanikani Pai.
I te tau 2003, i tukuna e Cox a Remixed, he kohinga waiata mai i ana pukapuka e toru o mua kua whakahouhia ki roto i nga waiata puoro tino kaha; ā, i te tau 2004 i tukuna e ia he pukaemi tino rongonui ko Ultimate Deborah Cox.
Te Marama tauranga (2007)
I te tau 2007, i tukuna e Cox tetahi pukaemi ki te kaiwaiata jazz a Deanna Washington ko Destination Moon. I wehe a Cox ki a Clive Davis me Sony Records, ka tukuna tenei pukaemi ki Decca Records, he wahanga o Universal Music. Ko te pukaemi, e whakaatu ana i a Cox e waiata ana me te orchestra o nga wahanga 40, he kohinga o nga paerewa jazz me nga uhi mai etahi o Washington.
Ko nga tino rongonui ko 'Pepe, kua whiwhi koe i nga mea e hiahia ana koe' me te 'He aha te rereketanga o te ra' i eke ki te nama 3 i runga i te Billboard Jazz Albums tūtohi, ka tohua mo te Tohu Grammy mo te Pukaemi Hoahoa Pai. I taua tau 2007 ano, i whakaatu a Cox i te waiata "Everybody is Dancing", i tuhia e ia i te tau 1978. Inaianei kua tukuna e ia hei remix, i eke ki te nama 17 i runga i te mahere waiata Hot Dance Club.
Te Kupu Whakatau (2008)
I hangaia e Cox raua ko Stevens ta raua ake tapanga, Deco Recording Group, i te tau 2008. I taua tau ano, i whakawhiwhia ia ki tetahi whetu i te Scarborough Walk of Fame.
I hoki mai a Cox ki te R&B me tana pukaemi e whai ake nei, Ko te Whakaaetanga (2008), i tukuna ki te tapanga Deco. Kua mahi tahi ia me nga kaitito waiata me nga kaihanga penei i a John Legend me Shep Crawford.
Ko te pukaemi i eke ki te Nama 14 i runga i te Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Albums Chart a i tohua mo te R&B/Soul Recording of the Year i nga Tohu Juno 2009. Ko te "Beautiful UR" kotahi i tae ki te Nama 1 i runga i nga Waiata Chart Dance Club Waiata me Nama 18 i runga i te Billboard Canadian Top 100 ka whiwhi i te tangohanga mamati konukawata i Kanata.
Te mahi tahi me te waiata kiriata
I te tau 2000, i tono a Whitney Houston ki a Cox kia waiata tahi me ia i runga i te "Same Script, Different Cast" mo te pukaemi a Houston Whitney: Greatest Hits. I eke ki te #14 i te tūtohi Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Waiata. I taua tau ano, ko Cox raua ko Stevens, me te kaitito waiata a Keith Andes, i tohua mo te Tohu Genie mo te Waiata Taketake Pai mo nga waiata "29" me "Our Love" mai i a Clement Dev's Love Come Down, i wheturangitia a Cox i tana kiriata whakaari. . tuatahi.
I tukuna ano e ia te waiata "Nobody Cares" ki te tangi o te kiriata Hotel Rwanda (2004) me te waiata "Definition of Love" mo Akeelah and The Bee (2006). I te tau 2008, i tuhia e ia te waiata hou "This Gift" mo Tyler Perry's The Browns Meeting. I taua tau ano, i homai ano e Cox nga waiata e kore ahau e amuamu me Stand for the film He uaua te kimi tangata pai.
I haere a Cox me te kaiwaiata rongonui me te kaihanga a David Foster i tana haerenga Foster & Friends Tour i te tau 2009; ā, i te tau 2010 ka waiata ia e toru nga taarua me te kaiwaiata rongonui rongonui a Andrea Bocelli i te O2 Arena i Raanana.
Mahi kaiwhakaari
I te tau 2004, ko Cox tana tuatahitanga Broadway hei Aida. I te tau 2013, ko ia te mahi a Lucy Harris i te whakaoranga o te hanga Broadway taketake a Jekyll & Hyde i haereere ki Amerika Te Tai Tokerau mo nga wiki 25, ka oma ki Broadway mo nga wiki 13. I whiwhi arotake pai a Cox mo nga mahi e rua; I kii a Entertainment Weekly i tana mahi i Jekyll & Hyde "he tino miharo".
I te tau 2015, i whai waahi ia ki te tukutahi kore utu o te Tony Awards 2015 i Times Square, ka riro ia Josephine Baker i te waiata puoro Off-Broadway Josephine, i puta tuatahitia i te tau 2016.
Ko ia ano te mahi a Whitney Houston i te kiriata Bodyguard, i runga i te kiriata 1992, i wheturangitia i te taha o Kathleen Turner i te whakaari Broadway Ka aroha koe ki a au mena ... e pa ana ki nga take whakawhiti ira.
Te whai waahi o te aroha
Kua whai waahi atu a Cox ki nga momo mahi atawhai, kua roa hoki ia e u ana ki nga take maha i roto i te hapori LGBT me te mohiotanga HIV/AIDS (e toru ona hoa kua mate i te mate HIV/AIDS). Ka mihi hoki ia ki te whakapau kaha o tona whanau me nga kaimahi huri noa i a ia i awhina i a ia i roto i tana ake uaua.
I te tau 2007, i whakawhiwhia a Cox ki te New York Senate Civil Rights Award, a, i whakawhiwhia ki te California State Senate Award mo ana mahi i roto i te whawhai mo te mana tangata me te taurite i te tau 2014. I mahi a Cox i te huihuinga WorldPride 2014 i Toronto. I whakawhiwhia e ia te Tohu Pillar OutMusic i te Hanuere 2015 ka whakawhiwhia i te 9 o Mei, 2015 i te Harvey Milk Foundation Gala i Florida.
Kua mahi tahi a Cox me etahi atu umanga atawhai. I te tau 2010, i mahi ia i te toru o nga konohete-a-tau i Broadway i Awherika ki te Tonga, e tautoko ana i te ako toi mo nga rangatahi me nga tamariki e pa ana ki te mate HIV/AIDS.
I te tau 2011, i mahi ia i te kohi putea i Florida mo te kaupapa whakangungu kotiro Honey Shine, i reira te Wahine Tuatahi a Michelle Obama i tae atu. Kua mahia ano e ia nga panui a te iwi mo Lifebeat, he whakahaere-a-ahumahi puoro e ako ana i nga tangata mo te HIV.
