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Infobox musical artist | name = Cheryl Clemons| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Cheryl Elizabeth Gamble| alias = "Coko",
Cheryl Clemons| birth_date = birth date and age|mf=yes|1970|06|13| death_date =| origin = Bronx, New York , United States | instrument = Vocals | genre = Gospel music|Gospel , urban contemporary gospel|urban Gospel , Contemporary R& B|R& B , hip hop soul , dance music|dance , new jack swing , house music|house | occupation = singer | years_active = 1990 - present| label = RCA Records|RCA , Light Records|Light / Artemis Records|Artemis | associated_acts = SWV|Sisters With Voices | website = http://www.cokosplace.com CokosPlace.com Cheryl Elizabeth "Coko" Clemons (born June 13, 1970) is an United States|American Gospel music|gospel and Rhythm and blues|R& B singer, and lead singer of R& B group SWV|Sisters With Voices (SWV) .

Musical career


Clemons began her recording career as a choir member in Hezekiah Walker 's Love Fellowship Tabernacle Choir.cite web|url= http://www.gospelcity.com/dynamic/industry-articles/industry_news/345|title=Coko Debuts At #5 On Billboard Chart|date=2006-11-08|publisher=GospelCity.com

Sisters With Voices


From 1990 to 1998, Coko sang with the platinum recording group, SWV|Sisters With Voices (SWV) . Altogether the group issued 6 albums. After their 1998 Christmas album SWV disbanded. Two compilation albums were released after the disbanding; Greatest Hits (1999) and the Best of SWV (2001). Though many stories circulated as to why SWV disbanded, it was Coko herself who made the final decision.cite web|url= http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12058363|title= Coko Talks About SWV Breakup|date=1999-07-21|author=Rosen, Craig|accessdate=2006-12-18|work=Yahoo Music In an interview, she said it was not a mutual decision and that many people tried to convince her to stay. She states that her reason for leaving was that the group was not communicating well and that she felt she would do better with a solo career.

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, 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 once 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, she has 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, Jaylon. She currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.citation needed|date=March 2010
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".

Coko's full gospel solo debut, Grateful , was released in the United States on October 31, 2006cite web|url= http://www.gospelflava.com/articles/cokointerview2006.html|title=Interview with Coko: A New Beginning|publisher=GospelFlava.com and debuted at #5 on Billboard's Top Independent albums chart. Grateful includes an all-star cover of The Clark Sisters ' "Endow Me" which features R& B singers Faith Evans , Fantasia Barrino and Lil Mo .cite web|url= http://www.gospelflava.com/reviews/coko.html|title=Grateful Album Review|author=Bonner, Gerald|publisher=GospelFlava.com 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.

Coko was reported to have joined an all-black touring cast performing the critically acclaimed play The Vagina Monologues , along with Sherri Shepherd , Star Jones , Vanessa L. Williams , and others.cite web|url= http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur39840.cfm|title=STAR JONES, SHERRI SHEPHERD IN 'MONOLOGUES': New black version of 'Vagina Monologues' to begin tour next month.|date=2008-01-09|publisher=EURweb In June 2008, Coko performed in Japan for the Billboard Live Tour. She sang some of her solo hits "Sunshine", "Clap Your Hands", and the SWV song " Right Here/Human Nature ".

Reuniting with SWV


main|SWV|l1=Sisters With VoicesCoko reunited with SWV and performed during their first live performance in eight years in Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles for urban radio station KRBV|KKBT 100.3 "The Beat" 's Summerjam concert on August 20, 2005. They also appeared on the 2006 New Jack Reunion Tour. SWV was featured in the XXL (magazine)|XXL 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, Canada|Toronto in late June 2007.cite web|url= http://www.gospelcity.com/dynamic/news-articles/featured_news/76|publisher=GospelCity.com|title=The Black Shakespeare Chronicles — The Rebirth of Coko|date=2007-01-23

On April 4, 2008, Coko returned with SWV to perform some of their hits for the local DJ Kid Kutts' birthday.cite web|url= http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=YU4tzQas2xc|title=SWV returns to Toronto 2008 DJ Skimpy and Kid Kutts birthday|date=2008-04-04

As SWV was in the midst of new shows for early 2011, Coko posed for a shoot in Jackson, Mississippi with photographer Will Sterling. The photos show off the singer's curvaceous figure in fashionable gowns, set against the natural beauty of the Mississippi Delta.cite web|url= http://www.urblife.com/the-look/coko-clemons-glam-photo-shoot|title=Coko Clemons of SWV is Curvy and Fab in Glam Photo Shoot!|work=UrbLife.com|date=February 17, 2011

Discography


Albums


YearAlbumurl=http:/ / www.billboard.com/ #/ artist/ coko/ chart-history/ 324113Release notes
U.S. U.S. R& B U.S. Gospel
1999 Hot Coko
  • 1st studio album
  • Released: 1999
    		• 6814& mdash;align="left"
  • Label: RCA Records
  • Producers: Rodney Jerkins, Brian Alexander Morgan, etc.
    • 2006 Grateful (Coko album)
  • 2nd studio album
  • Released: October 31, 2006
    		• & mdash;405align="left"
  • Label: Light/Artemis
  • Additional Chart positions: Indie #21
  • Producers: Warryn Campbell , Donald Lawrence ,
    Asaph Ward|Alexander "Asaph" Ward , "Big Mike" Clemons, Tony Homer
    • 2008 A Coko Christmas
  • 1st Christmas studio album
  • Released: October 14, 2008
    		• & mdash;& mdash;& mdash;align="left"
  • Label: Light
    • 2009 The Winner In Me
  • 3rd studio album
  • Released: July 14, 2009
    		• & mdash;554align="left"
  • Label: Light/Intersound


    • Singles


    YearSingleChart positionsAlbum
    U.S.
    Hot     		U.S.
    R& B     		U.S.
    Gospel     		UK
    1997" Men in Black (song)& mdash;1& mdash;1 Men in Black: The Album
    1999"Sunshine"7019& mdash;& mdash; Hot Coko
    "Triflin'"(with Eve (rapper)& mdash;69& mdash;& mdash;
    2006"I Get Joy" (with Kirk Franklin )& mdash;& mdash;20& mdash; Grateful
    "Clap Your Hands"& mdash;& mdash;& mdash;& mdash;
    "Endow Me" (with Fantasia Barrino& mdash;& mdash;& mdash;& mdash;
    2009"Wait" (featuring Youthful Praise )& mdash;& mdash;& mdash;& mdash; The Winner In Me
    2010"The Winner In Me"& mdash;& mdash;& mdash;& mdash;


    1U.S. Airplay charts

    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)

  • Johnny Gill & Coko: "Fire and Desire" Booty Call Soundtrack (Jive, 1997)

  • Coko: "He Be Back" Why Do Fools Fall In Love Soundtrack (Elektra, 1999)

  • Tevin Campbell : "Everything You Are (featuring Coko)" (Qwest, 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)

  • Onitsha: "My Life" (featuring Mary Mary and Deborah Cox ) (Stillwaters Records, 2007)

  • Case & Coko: "Face To Face" '' Meet the Browns (film)|Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns soundtrack (Atlanta Records, 2008)


    • References


    reflist

    External links


  • http://www.cokosplace.com CokosPlace.com

  • Allmusic|class=artist|id=p355640|label=Coko


    • SWV

    Persondata|NAME= Coko
    |ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Gamble, Cheryl; Clemons, Cheryl
    |SHORT DESCRIPTION= singer
    |DATE OF BIRTH=June 13, 1970
    |PLACE OF BIRTH= Charlotte, North Carolina , United States
    |DATE OF DEATH=
    |PLACE OF DEATH=
    DEFAULTSORT:Coko Category:American female singers
    Category:American Christians
    Category:American gospel singers
    Category:American rhythm and blues singers
    Category:African American singers
    Category:Living people
    Category:American sopranos
    Category:1970 births

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