Deborah cox music movie#

Deborah cox music movie#

The Bodyguard turns 25 this year, it came out in 1992.Дo you remember if you saw it in the theatre? Was it a must-see movie for you? That in itself was just something that was really very different.' Because the background vocals sounded like her choir, you know? And her lead vocal just had, again, just clarity and the amazing range in an up-tempo song. Like, вЂHow Will I Know.вЂ™ I was just living when I heard that song. It's so exciting when a voice is so modern but you can hear all of these different things that go so far back beyond a place you can even imagine, really.

It was just the versatility that she had in her voice, and that she brought that strong gospel sound to every song that she sang.' She sounded like she could sing any style of music, and there was a soul that came out whether she was singing jazz, pop, even dance music.

I mean, I heard Aretha Franklin, I heard Gladys Knight, I heard all these artists that were played on my motherвЂ™s stereo, but, there was nobody that sounded like Whitney. It made a huge impact on me because her voice was just so pure and soulful and it was not like anything that I had heard on the radio. 'At the time I was singing a lot in my room, just fantasizing about being an entertainer. You must have been so young! It must have been an overwhelming feeling.

WeвЂ™re talking about the late '80s and it was just like, вЂWho is that?вЂ™' There weren't any Black artists really being played on Canadian radio at the time. The soul that she had and the clarity, and the range - all of that in one was just not like anything I'd heard before. 'She sang 'You Give Good Love' and that just stopped me in my tracks. touring production of The Bodyguard, a stage musical inspired by HoustonвЂ™s 1992 blockbuster film with Kevin Costner (thereвЂ™s also a Canadian production running through April 9 in Toronto).Д¬ox spoke with CBC Music from the road in Columbus, Ohio, to talk about finding her voice, the 25th anniversary of The Bodyguard, and how a heart-to-heart with Houston changed her life.Дo you remember the very first time you heard Whitney Houston's music as a child? In 2016, Cox finally accepted an offer 10 years in the making to star in the U.S. In 2015, just three years after HoustonвЂ™s tragic death at the age of 48 and 20 years after those first comparisons were made, Cox was asked to provide the vocals for Angela BassettвЂ™s Houston biopic, Whitney. Houston herself even invited Cox to sing with her on the song вЂњSame Script, Different CastвЂќ for her album Whitney: The Greatest Hits. Immediately Cox found herself being compared to her idol in media and in the music industry, an assertion that was amplified when вЂњNobodyвЂ™s Supposed to Be Here,вЂќ the first single from her sophomore album, One Wish, climbed to the top of the charts and stayed there. Clive Davis signed Cox to Arista Records and she released her self-titled debut. In 1995, Cox broke out from her role as a backup singer (including six months with CГ©line Dion) to claim the spotlight for herself.

Growing up in the вЂ™80s in Scarborough, just outside Toronto, aspiring singer-songwriter Deborah Cox didnвЂ™t hear many Black artists being played on Canadian radio. This article was originally published Mar.