Cheryl "Coko" Clemons (born Cheryl Gamble on June 13, 1973(1973-06-13)) is an American Gospel and R&B singer, and was lead singer of R&B group Sisters With Voices (SWV). is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Gospel music is a musical genre characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian. ... Urban contemporary gospel (sometimes marketed as Black gospel to help potential buyers distinguish it from other forms of Christian music, such as contemporary Christian music or Christian rock and Southern gospel) is a subgenre of Gospel music. ... Contemporary R&B is a music genre of American popular music, the current iteration of the genre that began in the 1940s as rhythm and blues music. ... Hip hop soul is the second major subgenre of contemporary R&B. The term generally describes a style of music that blends soulful R&B singing and raw hip hop production. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... New Jack Swing, or swingbeat[1], is a hybrid style popular from the late-1980s into the mid-1990s, which fuses hip-hop with rhythms, samples and production techniques with the urban contemporary sound of R&B. The new jack swing style developed as many previous R&B styles did... House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. ... Light Records was a seminal gospel record label founded in 1966 by Ralph Carmichael as a joint venture with the Waco, Texas-based Word Records. ... Artemis Records is a New York-based independent record label, founded in July 1999, by current chairman/CEO Danny Goldberg. ... SWV, also known as Sisters With Voices, is an American female R&B trio from New York that formed as three school friends in 1990: Cheryl Coko Gamble-Clemons (born June 13, 1973), Tamara Taj Johnson-George (born April 1973), and Leanne Lelee Lyons (born July 17, 1974). ... is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Gospel music is a musical genre characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian. ... R&B redirects here. ... SWV, also known as Sisters With Voices, is an American female R&B trio from New York that formed as three school friends in 1990: Cheryl Coko Gamble-Clemons (born June 13, 1973), Tamara Taj Johnson-George (born April 1973), and Leanne Lelee Lyons (born July 17, 1974). ...

Musical career

Clemons began her recording career as a choir member in Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship Tabernacle Choir. ^[1] Pastor Hezekiah Walker is a popular American gospel music artist and pastor of prominent Brooklyn New York megachurch Love Fellowship Tabernacle. ...

Sisters With Voices

From 1990 to 1998, Coko sang with the platinum recording group, Sisters With Voices (SWV). Altogether the group issued 6 albums. After their 1998 Christmas album SWV disbanded. Two compilation albums were release after the disbanding; Greatest Hits (1999) and the Best of SWV (2001). SWV, also known as Sisters With Voices, is an American female R&B trio from New York that formed as three school friends in 1990: Cheryl Coko Gamble-Clemons (born June 13, 1973), Tamara Taj Johnson-George (born April 1973), and Leanne Lelee Lyons (born July 17, 1974). ...

Solo career

After SWV disbanded, Coko went on to release her first solo album under RCA, titled Hot Coko, released August 1999. The first single, "Sunshine," which was dedicated to her son Jazz (son of Digable Planets' member Butterfly)^{[citation needed]}, reached the Top 40 position in the R&B charts that summer. However, both the album and singles did not gather the same mainstream success as Coko one did with SWV. Meanwhile, Coko was working on a second solo album titled Music Doll in early 2001, but RCA closed the Black music division and the project was shelved. Since then, the singer concentrated more on her family, and eventually married gospel producer and drummer for Israel and New Breed, Mike "Big Mike" Clemmons, the father of her second son, Jalen. RCA, formerly an acronym for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark owned by Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson. ... Digable Planets is a New York City based alternative hip hop group composed of Ishmael Butterfly Butler (from New York), Craig Doodlebug Irving (from Philadelphia), and Mary Ann Ladybug Mecca Vieira (from Washington, D.C.). They were backed by Silkworm, who later embarked on a solo career under the name... Israel Houghton is a Christian worship leader mostly known for his cross-cultural style of worship music that fuses elements from Gospel music, Jazz and Rock. ...

In 2001 Coko and her Mother Lady "Clyde" Tibba Gamble did a remake of the song "Tears in Heaven" (originally recorded by Eric Clapton) on the album Rhythm and Spirit: "Love Can Build a Bridge". The album featured other artists such as Jennifer Holliday, Patti Labelle, and Tramaine Hawkins. Clemons sang on the Brent Jones & TP Mobb single "Midnite" in 2002. She also appeared on Youthful Praise's 2003 gospel album Thank You For The Change singing lead on "Up There". Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE[2] (born 30 March 1945) [3], nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. ... Jennifer Holliday (born Jennifer-Yvette Holliday on October 19, 1960 in Riverside, Texas) is an American singer and actress. ... Patti LaBelle (born Patricia Louise Holt on May 24, 1944 in West-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an multi-grammy winning American R&B and soul singer and songwriter who fronted two groups, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles and Labelle, which changed and birthed a new era of womens music and... Lady Tramaine Hawkins is a Grammy-, American-, and Dove Award winner gospel singer who occasionally releases albums simply as Still Tramaine. Lady Tramaine Hawkins was born October 11th, 1951 in San Francisco, California. ...

Coko's full Gospel solo debut, Grateful, was released in the United States on October 31, 2006 ^[3] and debuted at #5 on Billboard's Top Independent albums chart. ^[1] Grateful includes an all-star cover of The Clark Sisters' "Endow Me" which features R&B singers Faith Evans, Fantasia Barrino and Lil Mo. ^[4] An alternate version, minus Faith Evans was performed on BET's Celebration of Gospel '07. A special edition of Grateful only available through Wal-Mart includes two bonus tracks "I Wish" and Brent Jones' "Midnite" featuring Coko on lead vocals. The Clark Sisters are an American gospel vocal group consisting of four sisters: Elbernita Twinkie Clark, Jacky Clark Chisholm, Dorinda Clark Cole, and Karen Clark Sheard. ... Faith Renée Evans (born June 10, 1973) is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer, songwriter and producer. ... Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30, 1984), or simply Fantasia, is an American pop, R&B, soul singer and Broadway / television actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series American Idol in 2004. ... Lil Mo (born Cynthia Loving in Long Island, New York) is an African American R&B singer. ... Bet may refer to: Look up bet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ...

Most recently, Coko was reported to have joined an all-black touring cast performing the critically-acclaimed play The Vagina Monologues along with black actresses like Sherri Shepard, Star Jones, Vanessa Williams, and others. ^[5]. Also it's been rumored that Coko is releasing her first R&B song in 8 years titled Face to Face with fellow R&B crooner Case which is going to be a song on Tyler Perry Meet The Browns. The Vagina Monologues is an Obie Award-winning episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at HERE Arts Center in 1996. ... Star Jones Reynolds (born March 24, 1962) is an American lawyer, best known for her stint as a co-host of the ABC weekday morning talk show The View. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... Case Woodard was born in New York City and was signed to Def Soul records. ... Tyler Perrys Meet the Browns is an upcoming 2008 comedy-drama from Lionsgate based on the play Meet the Browns by Tyler Perry. ...

Reuniting with SWV

Main Article: Sisters With Voices

Coko reunited with SWV and performed during their first live performance in eight years in Los Angeles for urban radio station KKBT 100.3 "The Beat"'s Summerjam concert on August 20, 2005. They also appeared on the 2006 New Jack Reunion Tour. SWV was recently featured in the "XXL Hip-Hop Soul Magazine" where they discussed single releases from their debut album It's About Time. In the interview, Clemons mentioned that the group would no longer perform sexually-explicit songs such as "Downtown" and "Can We" anymore out of a new respect for her beliefs as a Christian. The group's final performance took place in Toronto in late June 2007. ^[6] SWV, also known as Sisters With Voices, is an American female R&B trio from New York that formed as three school friends in 1990: Cheryl Coko Gamble-Clemons (born June 13, 1973), Tamara Taj Johnson-George (born April 1973), and Leanne Lelee Lyons (born July 17, 1974). ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... KRBV (V-100) is a Radio One-owned radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA, with a Urban Adult Contemporary format. ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... Motto: Diversity Our Strength Map of Ontario Counties, Toronto being red Area: 641 sq. ...

Discography

Albums

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Other performances

• Will Smith: "Men In Black (featuring Coko)" Men In Black Soundtrack (Columbia, 1997)
• LSG: "All The Times (featuring Faith Evans, Coko, & Missy Elliott)" (Elektra, 1997)
• Coko: "He Be Back" Why Do Fools Fall In Love Soundtrack (Elektra, 1999)
• Brent Jones & TP Mobb: "Midnite (featuring Coko)" (EMI Gospel, 2002)
• Coko: "Easy Lover" Urban Renewal: The Songs of Phil Collins (Atlantic, 2003)
• Youthful Praise: "Up There (featuring Coko)" (Evidence Gospel, 2003)
• Johnny Gill & Coko: "Fire and Desire" Booty Call Soundtrack (Jive, 1997)
• Onitsha: "My Life" (featuring Mary Mary and Deborah Cox) (Stillwaters Records, 2007)
• Case & Coko: "Face To Face" Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns soundtrack (Atlanta Records, 2008)

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References

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External links

• CokosPlace.com
• Coko at MySpace - (official site)
• Coko at Allmusic