Imani Coppola

Maintaining parallel careers as both a soloist and the frontwoman for indie pop duo Little Jackie, New York singer-songwriter Imani Coppola (born April 6th, 1978) has tasted fleeting chart success at numerous points in a career spanning multiple decades. Raised on Long Island by an African-American mother and an Italian father, both of whom were musically inclined, she dabbled in piano and violin as a child before briefly attending a music composition course at university. Working on original songs alongside her studies, she soon amassed a collection of demos, which subsequently resulted in a record deal with Sony subsidiary Columbia. In 1997, Coppola shared her first single, “Legends of a Cowgirl”, which proved popular internationally, reaching #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and entering the top 40 in the UK and several other European countries. Her debut album, Chupacabra, arrived later the same year, peaking at #138 in the UK but failing to reach the Billboard Hot 200. Subsequently dropped by the label, she nonetheless managed to find herself back in the spotlight in 2001 with the Baha Men collaboration “You All Dat”, a ragga-tinged big beat anthem which reached #8 in Australia and #14 in the UK. After self-releasing a string of non-charting LPs, she struck gold once more as one half of the group Little Jackie, which saw her team up with producer Adam Pallin to create quirky off-pop, inspired by the R&B-tinged efforts of contemporaries like Gnarls Barkley. The group scored a minor hit in 2008 with “The World Should Revolve Around Me”, a UK #14 single, and enjoyed a degree of success with their first album, The Stoop, before fading into obscurity once more. Coppola has since continued to prolifically release music, with a vast discography totalling more than ten solo albums.

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