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Time - Found Jun. 21, 2009
He's gonna be a star.' Anyone with a Paula Cole CD collecting dust or an Arrested Development dashiki moldering in the closet has a right to...
Boston Herald - Found Jun. 10, 2009
... flick, ?Valediction,? at Whiskey Park in the Boston Park Plaza . . . North Shore Grammy gal Paula Cole supporting the Farm School and...
EJazzNews.com - Found Apr. 10, 2009
Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, and Liz Withers join some of the best student vocalists currently at the college on the Berklee Performance Center...
Middletown Press - Found May. 11, 2009
Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Paula Cole, known for her single, 'Where Have All The Cowboys Gone,' played at the Infinity Music Hall
Metronews - Found Jun. 24, 2009
Grammy Award winner Paula Cole is headlining, Canadian band MIR is hosting, while both Divine Brown and Sarah Slean are performing.
Rolling Stone - Found Jun. 23, 2009
Grammy Awards Hanson were nominated for Best New Artist in 1998, but lost to Paula Cole.
Comic Book Resources - Found Jun. 22, 2009
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The Detroit Free Press - Found Jun. 21, 2009
'These guys started coming out of the woodwork,' said assistant city attorney Paula Cole, who's representing the police officers and the City...
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| Birth name | Paula Cole |
| Born | April 5, 1968 |
| Origin | Rockport, Massachusetts |
| Genre(s) | Adult contemporary, Pop Rock, experimental music, art rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Songwriter |
| Voice type(s) | Mezzo-soprano |
| Years active | 1992βpresent |
| Label(s) | Imago Records / Warner Bros. (1993β2003) Columbia (2003β2005) Decca (2006β) |
| Website | Paula Cole Official Site |
Paula Cole (born April 5, 1968, Rockport, Massachusetts) is an American singer/songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
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Early life
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Cole was born to Stephanie, a visual artist, and Jim Cole, a polka-playing entomologist. She has a sister named Irene. She lived in Rockport with her parents, where she attended elementary schoolcitation needed. She was an active and popular student in middle school and high school, holding offices as class president and student council member. In addition, she was very active in the school's theatre arts program, starring in many productions, among them Flower Drum Song and Whose Life Is It Anyway?. She was a French Club member and traveled to France as part of a well-established exchange program founded by Foreign Language department head Mary Hayes. Cole entered the Berklee College of Music in Boston when she was 18, where she studied jazz singing and improvisation.
Recording career
Cole got her first big professional break when she was invited to perform on Peter Gabriel's 1993-1994 Secret World Live tour. Shortly after this, she was signed on with her first record company Imago Records. Through this record company, she released her first album Harbinger in 1994. Within that year of Harbinger's release, Imago Records went out of business. In 1995, she was signed on to Warner Bros. Records. The record company reissued Harbinger in the Fall of 1995.
Harbinger
Cole released her debut album, Harbinger, in 1994 with Imago Records. She appeared with Melissa Etheridge to sing a duet on VH1 though she was not well-known at the time.
Harbinger featured songs dwelling on Cole's personal thoughts on discrimination and unhappiness. The songs were musically lush but driven and bleak. The accompanying artwork featured photographs of Cole with a boyishly short haircut, wearing loose fitting black sweatclothes, combat boots and nose ring. Unfortunately the Imago label folded and promotion of Harbinger was limited, affecting its sales. A single, "I Am So Ordinary", was released with a bleak, low-budget black and white video that reflected the album's artwork.
This Fire
In late 1996, Cole released her second album on Warner Bros. Records, This Fire, which was entirely self-produced. The albums' debut single, "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone", became an instant smash radio (reaching #8 on Billboard magazine's pop chart) and MTV hit. The follow-up single, "I Don't Want to Wait", was a #11 pop hit single, thanks in part to the fact that it was made the theme song to the popular teen drama Dawson's Creek. The song was played so much that it was lampooned on various sketch comedy shows. Memorably, a sketch on MTV Movie Awards that spoofed Dawson's Creek had Samuel L. Jackson burst in on a romantic scene and destroy a radio playing the song. The single "Me" (#35) was also released. The title "Hush, hush, hush", a duet with Peter Gabriel talks about AIDS and about a young gay man dying in his father's comforting arms. "Feelin' Love" was included in the City of Angels soundtrack.
Cole toured with the Lilith Fair and garnered even more critical acclaim for her live performances. Cole was nominated for several Grammy awards in 1997. Among them was "Producer of the Year" (Cole was the second woman to ever be nominated in this category); she did not win, but did win "Best New Artist".
Amen
Cole took a hiatus to have and begin raising her daughter Sky. In 1999 Cole released Amen with the newly formed "Paula Cole Band". The album's debut single "I Believe In Love" was initially not a success but was remixed by producer Steven Miller into a successful dance song. The album failed to match the success of This Fire. A fourth album was recorded but the label refused to release it; in 2005 Cole uploaded one of the tracks, "Singing Out My Life," to her own website to get her sound out there. She also recorded a song called "It's My Life" during these sessions, which can be heard in Mercury automobile commercials. Cole also made a home recording of a politically charged song called "My Hero Mr. President".citation needed
Courage
Cole returned in June 2007 with her fourth studio album Courage, which was released on Decca Records.
Instruments
In addition to singing Paula uses numerous different instruments throughout her songs, performing many herself such as her main instrument piano, Juno, Juno bass, tube Wurlitzer, harmonium, beat boxing vocals, toy xylophones, didjeridu, clarinet, Rhodes, Rhodes bass, Moog, and low tuned-electric guitar in different songs.
Current status
Cole performed a two-hour set at Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Massachusetts on February 16, 2007 during which she debuted several songs from her then yet to be released fourth studio album, Courage. The set began with a solo piano version of "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" which was replayed toward the end of the concert by the full band. Her performance was reviewed favorably in The Boston Globe on February 19, 2007.1 In March 2007, her official myspace previewed three new songs from Courage, which include "Comin' Down", "El Greco", and the album's first single entitled "14".
On July 10, 2007 Cole sang "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch of the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.23 In August 2007, Cole toured with Mandy Moore, playing mid-size venues in the western United States.dated info
On June 17, 2008 she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Boston.4 In August 2008, Cole toured to continue promoting her CD Courage, performing small venues like Chicago's Morton Arboretum. She is continuing her tour into 2009 with dates in February at Stone Mountain Center in Maine and the Mayo Center in New Jersey.
Discography
Albums
- Harbinger (1994)
- This Fire (1996) U.S. #20
- Amen (1999) U.S. #97
- Greatest Hits: Postcards from East Oceanside (2006)
- Courage (2007) U.S. #163
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| 1997 | "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" |
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| 1998 | "Me" |
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| 1999 | "I Believe in Love" |
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| 2006 | "The Loves We Lost" (with TiΓ«sto as Allure) |
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| 2007 | "14" |
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| Preceded by LeAnn Rimes |
Grammy Award for Best New Artist 1998 |
Succeeded by Lauryn Hill |
References
- ^ Rodman, Sarah (February 19, 2007). "Returning to the limelight, Cole is as striking as ever". The Boston Globe, Living/Arts [1]
- ^ press release from MLB
- ^ this article from Broadcast News
- ^ http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/gallery/06_17_08_game_six_scene?pg=15
- ^ Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Paula Cole
- ^ australian-charts.com - Australian charts portal
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 115. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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