Deborah Cox
Deborah Cox
Deborah Coxis a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1998 song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, a record held for nearly eight years. She has achieved 12 number-one hits on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart. She is often cited as Canada's top R&B artist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth13 July 1974
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
It really just puts me right in that moment of the struggle that these people have been through, and I think the story of Aida represents a lot.
We're hoping this Tuesday that there will be even more people coming out. We are hoping for communitywide support for as long as she is in the competition.
They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special.
People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.
From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.
I just bought a bunch of CDs and downloaded them into my I-pod. I bought the Seal record, a Swahili drum album, and there's some original African drums that I listen to before the show.
I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.
I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.
Oh, it was amazing. The energy from the people, the warmth of the audience was great and it really was a really, really good show.
Whatever you feel is going to be truthful and maybe some artists don't feel like their songs are, have the same impact when they're remixed.
I wanted it to feel like you were in the club and on the dance floor, so that was the approach and I think we accomplished that mission.
Some women feel less likely to lose it if they have a physical release first. When a client tells me: 'If I really let it out, we'd all burst into flames,' then I might suggest an anger workout.
I'm at a point where I'm going where the journey leads me. I've set goals but I don't get really hung up if I don't achieve those goals right away or in my time, you know what I mean?