Cooper (Deborah)   (USA)

EuroDance member
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Deborah Cooper singles

	Your Love Is All I Need	1986	BUY X
	Real Love	2002	BUY X

Deborah Cooper remixes

Real Love (Edson Pride remix)

9th Nov 2018

BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	C+C Music Factory - Things That Make You Go Hmmmm...	1991	BUY X
	Clivillés & Cole - Pride (In The Name Of Love)	1991	BUY X
	Clivillés & Cole - A Deeper Love	1991	BUY X
	2 Examples - Just Can't Help Me	1992	BUY X
	C+C Music Factory - Keep It Comin' (Dance Till You Can't Dance No More!)	1992	BUY X
	U-4-Ya - He's Not Dancing	1993	BUY X
	2 Examples - Comin' Now	1993	BUY X
	Sampling Girls - Just Can't Help Me	1993	BUY X
	London Steppers - Thru the Vibe	1993	BUY X
	Chase - Music Is My Life	Jan 1993	BUY X
	Absolution - Dance To The Beat	1994	BUY X
	ADAM (2) - Get Into The Music	1994	BUY X
	HYPE (2) - Pump This Party	1994	BUY X
	Illusive - Take Me Higher	1994	BUY X
	Loose Hard - Magic Land	1994	BUY X
	Anima Latina - Music Is My Life	1994	BUY X
	Systematic - I Got The Music	15th Apr 1994	BUY X
	Volta - To The Beat	5th Jul 1994	BUY X
	Rapture - Music Is My Life	29th Mar 1995	BUY X
	Nice Price - Rock My Body	10th Jul 1995	BUY X
	Robi Rob's Clubworld - Reach	1996	BUY X
	Music Nation - Music Is My Life	1996	BUY X
	Ray Roc - Whisper	1997	BUY X
	Mind to Mind - Music Is My Life	1997	BUY X
	Victor Calderone - Are You Satisfied	2001	BUY X
	High Contrast - Music Is Everything	2002	BUY X
	Tony Moran - Live You All Over	2005	BUY X
	Erick Morillo - I Get Lifted	2009	BUY X
	Tony Moran - Heartbeat	2013	BUY X
	Zero J - Keep it Comin	18th Jan 2019	BUY X

Deborah Cooper biography

Deborah Jean Cooper is an American professional dance music, singer, award-winning composer and entertainer, who contributed to several #1 and top charting dance music and house music hits. Her voice was also sampled on many Italian eurodance songs.

Cooper started her carreer as female vocalist for the Fatback Band, with the first song with them being Double Dutch and the last one being Wild Sugar. After she left she gotten replaced with Linda Blakely. In 1981, she became lead female vocalist and member of disco/R&B band Change till 1985, where she took part to several hits. Then she went solo and released single Your Love Is All I Need. In 1991 she did backing vocals on DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's single Ring My Bell. Then she met producers Clivillés and Cole and featured as guest vocalist on their hit single A Deeper Love.

Subsequently, in the 1990s, she became part of their project C+C Music Factory as back up singer. As official vocalist Zelma Davis was still waiting for her green card, she also became the project's main vocalist. This resulted with several # 1 hits including Deeper Love, Pride, Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... and Keep It Comin (Dance Till You Can't Dance No More). Keep It Comin was chosen as the theme from the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (one version with rapper Q-Unique, while the Dance club version was solely based on Deborah's vocals). Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... was used in TV ad campaign for Budget Gourmet frozen meals.

Her vocals on Keep It Comin' (Dance Till You Can't Dance No More!) were sampled and used on many eurodance songs, such as 2 Examples Just Can't Help Me, Volta To The Beat, Sampling Girls ‎- Just Can't Help Me, H.Y.P.E. - Pump This Party, Chase - Music Is My Life, Anima Latina - Music Is My Life...

In 1996, after his former partner from C+C Music Factory, David Cole, passed away, Robert Clivilles hired Deborah Cooper to vocalize Reach for his new project RobiRob's Clubworld. Afterwards, she continued to lend her vocals to house music tracks by other record producers

As a backup and session singer she has worked with Jessica Simpson, Lisa Lisa and Natalie Cole. She worked as a featured singer for Mariah Carey in both recording sessions as well as live appearances internationally. She could be seen in Mariah Carey's "Behind the scene" documentary for her contribution to song Butterfly.

2000 : she teamed with Victor Calderone and Peter Rauhofer (aka the Collaboration) and did backing vocals on the song Do It Properly, a cover of a song by 2 Puerto Ricans, A Blackman And A Dominican (another Clivilles & Cole project). The live performance was premiered at the annual Winter Music Conference and she won an ASCAP award for her writing and composition on the project in 2003. DJ Doozer & Palermo partially used a sample of her voice on their single Music (Here We Go Again), even if vocals were credited to vocalist Betty S.

2001 : she recorded Are You Satisfied for Victor Calderone, and the song became a #1 dance hit.

2002 : she wrote and released solo single Real Love under Emerge Records, produced by Tony Moran.

2004 : Deborah re-recorded tag line Everybody Dance Now from C+C Music Factory's hit Gonna Make You Sweat for an American Express TV ad featuring comedian Ellen DeGeneres. The same year introduced a popular remix of her solo song Real Love made by American DJs Ralphi Rosario and Abel aka Rosabel. The new version premiered live when she appeared at 2004 Chicago annual Fireball event to a sold out event.

2005 : with DJ and producer Tony Moran she recorded Live You All Over which quickly rose up the charts to #2. This track was released as a CD single and on Moran's "i>Tour De Beats compilation.

2007 : in January she began a world tour with longtime friend and personal appearance manager Scott Sherman. She was also working on a book project, memoirs from her life in the music industry, and on a new single and compilation track. Tour ended in 2010.

2009 : Deborah did vocals on Erick Morillo's I Get Lifted.

2012 : Deborah vocalized Tony Moran's single Heartbeat

2018 : she contributed to Change's album Love 4 Love, performing vocals on songs Oh What A Feeling and You'll Always Be A Part Of Me. Edson Pride remixed her single Real Love.

2019 : her vocals sampled from Keep It Comin' were used on Zero J feat. Deborah Cooper - Keep it Comin.

Thanks to Andrew-FK

Deborah Cooper biography was last updated Thu, October 15th 2020

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