Simon Wilcox
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Simon Wilcox | |
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Born | 1976 |
Origin | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
Genre(s) | Rock |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
Years active | 1996–present |
Label(s) | Universal Music Group |
Website | www.simonwilcox.com |
Simon Wilcox (born 1976) is a Canadian musician and artist.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Wilcox is the daughter of Canadian rock musician David Wilcox and British multi-media artist/record producer Sadia Sadia. She is also the great niece of Canadian academic John Meisel. At the age of three, she was placed with a female friend of the family in Ottawa, Ontario while her parents went on tour. She grew up in Ottawa, seeing her parents on a sporadic basis until she turned 17, when she moved to Toronto.
In 1996 while attending the Ontario College of Art and Design, Wilcox played a prominent role in the gothic rock group Exovedate’s second CD. The album was very well received by college, university, and underground radio, notably charting in the top 10 on the University of Toronto's FM station CIUT-FM for three months in 1997. While Wilcox is cited as a remaining and important influence on this band, it was her unfettered solo albums Mongrel of Love (2000) and Smart Function (2003), which firmly established her as an important Canadian musician.
Wilcox has also had significant success as a songwriter, winning the SOCAN No. 1 Song Award for her song "Stay", which reached the peak of Canadian Music Network's Bravo! chart on October 18, 2005. The song was co-written and recorded by the distinctive Quebec-based star Jorane and appears on Jorane's 2004 album, The You and the Now.
"Stay" was Wilcox's third co-written No. 1 song in little more than a year, each recorded by remarkably different performers. The others were "Home" (recorded by Three Days Grace) and "Tell All Your Friends" (recorded by Projet Orange.)"
Her third album The Charm and The Strange was released on May 22, 2007 and featured the single "Eyes On You".
Simon appears on The Kooks cover version of Peter Bjorn & John's 'Young Folks' where she sings Victoria Bergsman's part of the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9FkQS_UyIY
The song was released on a free cd that accompanied the March 1, 2008 issue of the NME.
On March 9, 2008 her Kenyan video diary was broadcast across Canada on CBC News: Sunday. Wilcox went to Kenya in the summer of 2007, after co-writing the official song for the 2006 International AIDS Conference (held in Toronto).
Simon currently divides her time between the UK, Toronto and Los Angeles.