Deborah Cox asked “Who Do U Love?”, but she wasn’t just being sentimental about it.

Canadian singer Deborah Cox (b.1974) began her career as a backing singer for Celine Dion before being signed herself to Arista Records. She released her debut single, “Sentimental”, in 1995, which went top 40 in both America and the UK, taken from her self-titled first album. The album, though not scaling the heights of a Celine recording, did produce two more successful singles with “Who Do U Love?” (US No.17, UK No.31) and “Where Do We Go From Here?”, both in 1996. In 1997, “Things Just Ain’t The Same” from the film ‘Money Talks’, gave her a second US Dance chart number one with a third and fourth for “Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here” and “It’s Over Now”, in 1998, both taken from her second album, “One Wish”, which sold over 500,000 copies in America.

The album would include two US top ten hits, with “Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here” and “We Can’t Be Friends” in 1999, although by now her success was now confined to the American charts. She recorded “Same Script, Different Cast” with Whitney Houston for her 2000 greatest hits album, which produced a US No.70 charting single. Deborah has achieved, to date, thirteen US Dance chart toppers with “Absolutely Not” in 2001, “Mr. Lonely” in 2002, “Play Your Part” in 2003, House Is Not A Home” in 2005, “Beautiful R U” in 2008, “If It Wasn’t For Love” in 2011, “Higher” in 2013 and “Let The World Be Ours Tonight” in 2017. Her studio albums dried up in 2008 with “The Promise” (US No.106) and since then, Deborah has just released standalone singles, with three Christmas-themed songs in 2019 and 2020.

Deborah ‘reunited’ with Whitney in 2015, when she supplied the recordings of many of her songs for the TV documentary Whitney. Since 2000, she has also crossed over to the big screen starring in ‘Love Come Down’ and a number of TV shows. In 2022, Deborah Cox was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, while she ‘promises’, recording of her sixth studio album will happen “soon”!

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