Toronto’s Deborah Cox may be internationally famous, but she hasn’t forgotten the struggle

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” .

Deborah_Cox God I hate when racism is the only reason for decision making.

Deborah_Cox My little sister bought this woman’s c.d when she was in grade 7 with her Christmas money. 💕💕💕💕

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Deborah_Cox What took so long? 🎊 Congrats Deborah!!! Wishing you all the best and continued success.

Cox has celebrated every day since since found out about her induction. 'I feel really honoured to know that there are going to be other people that come after me that know that they have a real opportunity in this industry to make a mark and do music.'

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