Her music stays grounded in soul, with a frankness about relationships and personal struggles.
For a good sense of her style, 'Thought You Should Know' and 'Playa Cardz Right' frame that direct, no-frills approach pretty well.
Cole's songs have a plainspoken quality that cuts through. 'Thought You Should Know' and 'Heaven Sent' deal with real-life relationship dynamics without much sugarcoating. She's worked with Missy Elliott and Lil' Wayne, but the music always feels like it's coming from her Oakland church choir background.
She came up in Oakland, singing in a church choir as a kid. Her 2007 album 'Just Like You' had the single 'Let It Go,' and she's released six studio albums through 2014, from 'The Way It Is' to 'Point of No Return.'
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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