During this time, Cole collaborated with artists from her native Bay Area, among them D'Wayne Wiggings of Tony Toni Tone and Messy Marv. Cole moved to Los Angeles at 18 to pursue a music career. At age 16, Cole became a participant at the East Oakland Youth Development Center (EOYDC), a local youth organization. She later formed a friendship with Tupac Shakur, who promised to help her start her singing career asking her to write a hook on his upcoming project the night he died unexpectedly. At age 12, Cole was introduced into the music industry, along with her brother Sean (also known as Nutt-So), where she met and recorded with MC Hammer. She was adopted at age two by family friends Leon and Yvonne Cole, changing her last name to Cole. Cole and Hunter met for the first time in 2016 after a paternity test confirmed their connection. Keyshia Cole was born on Octoin Oakland, California, and is the biological daughter of Francine 'Frankie' Lons and boxing trainer Virgil Hunter. Her third reality show Keyshia Cole: All In premiered on February 24, 2015. Her second reality show, Family First premiered on October 9, 2012.
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She signed to a reality/documentary series Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is which aired on BET from 2006 until 2008, giving viewers a closer look into Cole's career and family life with her biological mother and sister. After Geffen folded, Cole's sixth album Point of No Return (2014) was released on Octothrough Interscope Records, and had unsuccessful sales, selling less than 45,000 copies and being Cole's lowest-selling album to date.Īlong with her music, Cole has ventured into reality television. The album has sold 329,000 copies in the US as of September 2013. The album has sold 400,000 copies in the US as of November 2012.Cole's fifth album Woman to Woman (2012) debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of 96,000, lower than her last effort. The album debuted and peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of 129,000.
Ĭalling All Hearts is Cole's fourth album, released on Decemin the United States. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 322,000, the highest of Cole's career. A Different Me is Cole's third album, released in 2008. The album has been certified platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America, and has sold 1.7 million copies in the US. It was nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 50th Grammy Awards. The album stayed on the charts for over a year, selling over 1.6 million copies.Īfter A&M folded, Cole released her second album Just like You (2007) under Geffen Records, and the album debuted and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200. It was certified gold within 17 weeks, and then platinum just eight weeks later. She released her debut album, The Way It Is (2005), which spawned five singles: 'Never', 'I Changed My Mind', '(I Just Want It) To Be Over', 'I Should Have Cheated', and 'Love'. At the age of 18, she moved to Los Angeles and was later introduced to A&M Records. Her career began when she met MC Hammer at the age of 12, and later met rapper Tupac Shakur. Cole (born October 15, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, producer, and television personality. One back-up singer sported a faux-hawk, and the haircut seemed appropriate given the music’s unvarnished punkiness.Keyshia M. Fortunately, “The Way It Is” contains plenty of gems.Ĭole opened with "(I Just Want It) to Be Over,” and it was obvious right away that she was in a typically feisty mood: While her six-piece band transformed her album’s plush R&B productions into hard-angled soul-rock rave-ups, Cole emphasized the grain in her voice, pushing it to raw emotional extremes that sometimes required a sacrifice in pitch. She knew that her fans came to make their private pain public, and that required familiar material. But Cole sang only a couple of tracks from the new album, including “Let It Go,” the ‘80s-tinged lead single. This show came a few weeks before the release of Cole’s highly anticipated sophomore CD, “Just Like You,” whose title seems to promise another batch of anthems dedicated to women with grievances. “No, you listen to me now!” she ordered one fellow, nailing the vocabulary of domestic drama. Blige, Cole imagines R&B as music for the battlefield, not the boudoir, which means her language tends to take the imperative form. “Can’t y’all help me sing this one?” Keyshia Cole wondered aloud Sunday at the House of Blues during her performance of “Love.” “I asked you nicely.”Īsking nicely isn’t really Cole’s style: On “The Way It Is,” her platinum-selling debut from 2005, Oakland-based Cole channeled the fury and recrimination of the wronged woman unable to tolerate being abused for one second more.