Toronto-born singer and songwriter Deborah_Cox will become the first Black female inductee to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame this weekend. She spoke to the Star about the days of relentless hustle leading up to her successes.
Although she’s entering the Canadian Music Hall of Fame this weekend as its first Black female inductee due to her impressive international accomplishments, Deborah Cox humbly remembers the days of relentless hustle leading up to her successes.winner — best known for the 1998 chart-topping power ballad “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here” and 13 No.
“Back then, it was on cassette,” said Cox. “We didn’t have all the technology that you have now. You’d use whatever you could to record your songs that you sent out either by FedEx or mail your demo tape. “Depending on whether we got a rejection letter or if we had a bad response and things weren’t really going our way, we knew that we could always take a drive by the little lakes that were really close to the zoo, and chill out and strategize,” said Cox, who was raised in Flemingdon Park and moved to Scarborough in her early teens.Cox’s first big break was in the early ’90s, landing a tour gig as backing vocalist with future superstar Céline Dion.
Shortly thereafter, Cox and future husband Stephens met an executive at Minneapolis’s Flyte Tyme Records, the label owned by Prince associates Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who were working with Janet Jackson at the time. Davis, a star-making record company executive whose discoveries include Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Billy Joel and many more, backed Cox at Arista and, later, his J Records, helping engineer her success with such milestones as the aforementioned “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here,” and top U.S. R&B hits “Sentimental” and “We Can’t Be Friends” .
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