Coko

Coko (even Cheryl " Coko " Clemons, born Cheryl Gamble, born June 13, 1973 in New York City, USA) is an American R & B / gospel singer, songwriter and music producer. She is a member of the pop / R & B trio SWV, which disintegrated in 1999 and in 2005 founded again.

Career

For awareness Coko first came in 1993 as a member of the group SWV, also known as Sisters With Voices. Together with Tamara " Taj " Johnson - George and Leanne " Lelee " Lyons had chart success in the USA. With them she worked with Blackstreet, Puff Daddy and Missy Elliott and recorded hits such as Weak, Right Here and We Can. Besides the songs of SWV in 1998 her solo song Men In Black, a collaboration with rapper / actor Will Smith, became a hit, reaching, including Germany, Britain, Austria, Switzerland and Australia, the top of the singles charts. The song was the title song of the movie Men in Black.

After the girl group SWV first time in 1999 parted, she published the produced by Rodney " Darkchild " Jerkins title Sunshine. Although this was only moderately successful, Cokos debut album Hot Coko was released a few months later. But neither this nor the resulting single from the triflin ' (featuring Eve ) met expectations; The album reached gold status at least still for 0.5 million remote copies in the United States.

Six years after her solo debut, she decided to bring her second album, Grateful to the market, a gospel album with guest appearances by Lil 'Mo, Faith Evans and Fantasia. The gospel CD was also placed in the top ten of the Billboard Gospel Album and reached approximately the sales of its predecessor.

Discography

Albums

Singles

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