Imani Coppola

Imani Coppola came out of New York in 1997 armed with a violin and a voice, and her debut single, "Legend of a Cowgirl", strutted into the top 40 on both sides of the Atlantic while she was still a teenager. The album behind it, Chupacabra, arrived on Columbia: a loose, playful pop record that the critics took to right away, and one that found its way onto the Heatseekers chart.

The major-label spotlight didn't stick around, but she did. In 2001 she turned up as the guest voice on the Baha Men's "You All Dat", a top-10 hit in Australia that put her name back on the Hot 100. Then she went her own way, cutting a run of self-made albums in the early 2000s and writing the music for The Singing Biologist, a musical film she also starred in. Ipecac signed her in 2007, and The Black & White Album that year won warm notices and played as a comeback.

In 2008 she teamed up with programmer Adam Pallin as the pop and R&B duo Little Jackie, whose "The World Should Revolve Around Me" went top 40 in the UK and Ireland and doubled as the theme for VH1's New York Goes to Hollywood. Their album The Stoop, on S-Curve, stalled and the label cut them loose, but the pair kept going with Made4TV and Queen of Prospect Park, while Coppola's solo line carried on with The Glass Wall in 2012 and Hypocrites in 2017.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.