Deborah Cox

Deborah Cox, full name Deborah Ann Cox, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress born on July 13, 1974, in Toronto, Ontario.

She began her music career in the early 1990s as a backup singer for Céline Dion for six months.

Signed by Arista Records in 1995, she achieved major success with her second album, *One Wish* (1998), and notably the single Nobody's Supposed to Be Here, which set a record by remaining number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart for fourteen weeks.

Her career is also marked by considerable success on electronic music charts, with numerous number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

In 2008, she founded her own independent label, Deco Recording Group, with her production partner Lascelles Stephens.

She has collaborated with house music producers and DJs, such as in 2009 on the track Leave The World Behind, produced by Axwell, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

In 2011, she reached her eleventh number-one dance hit with If It Wasn't For Love.

She continued her releases in the genre with tracks like the deep house single Kinda Miss You (2015) and the uptempo title Let the World Be Ours Tonight (2017), the latter marking her thirteenth number one on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart.

Alongside her music career, Deborah Cox has pursued an acting career on Broadway, notably in *Aida* and *Jekyll & Hyde*, and played the role of Josephine Baker in the musical *Josephine*.

She also provided her voice for the Whitney Houston biopic and has acted in television series such as *The First Wives Club* and *Station Eleven*.