Monday, 23 June 2008
Imani Coppola
Artist: Imani Coppola
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
The Black and White Album
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
While scarcely a sophomore at the State University of New York (poring over orchestra and later on studio composition), Imani Coppola gained a record compress for her phantasmagorical, sample-laden pop vision of rap music, linked to Digable Planets as well as Neneh Cherry. While maturation up, her entire folk was musical, and Coppola began playing violin at the age of six. She began writing songs and skilful her vocals (although her recording life history has featured her rapping more than telling). Her debut album, Chupacabra, featured the MTV hit "Legend of a Cowgirl." Coppola exhausted the future decade out of the limelight -- her label dropped her before she could acquittance her followup, so she gear up about making music in relation obscureness in New York, starting her own label so as to expiration her have material, including 2004's Afrodite. In 2007, all the same, she was picked up by Ipecac Records, world Health Organization issued The Black & White Album late that year.