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Clarence Greenwood, better known as Citizen Cope, is a multi-talented
sonic auteur that, in addition to providing lead vocals and production,
plays a variety of instruments including guitar, keyboard and drum machines;
Greenwood was born in Memphis, Tennessee USA; relocating to Washington,
D.C. for high school, in 1992 he became a member of the arty Hip-Hop crew
Basehead.
Citizen Cope got its start in the second half of the '90s by recording
an indie-disc and some compositions for a series of compilation albums
and a couple of movie soundtracks; he caught the ear of Capitol Records,
signed with them in 1997 and made an album, "Shotguns", which
was never released.
Cope then moved to New York and was signed to DreamWorks who issued "Citizen
Cope" in early 2002. About that time, a demo of a new Cope song,
"Sideways", was passed to Carlos
Santana, who was enchanted with it and asked Cope to produce and sing
it for his multi-platinum "Shaman" album.
Booking time at New York City's famed Electric Lady Studios and Central
East Studios in Washington, D.C. Cope assembled a crew of musicians to
record the band's second album, the RCA debut "The Clarence Greenwood
Recordings", an eclectic collection of modern-Rock, Blues and Hip-Hop
tunes; the CD included the single "Bullet And A Target", although
never embraced by mainstream commercial radio, in 2004, he was seemingly
everywhere.
Citizen Cope are back with his new album, "Every Waking Moment";
by far his most personal recording yet, the album shows Cope continuing
his deep exploration of the world that confronts all of us everday. The
set includes the radio-single "Back Together".
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