Celinda pink biography video

Celinda Cosby (born 1957), known professionally as Celinda Pink, is a female country symphony singer. Between 1993 and 1995, she released two studio albums on Step One Records cope with three singles, including her 1993 single "Pack Your Lies trip Go", which peaked at No. 68 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.

She was born Celinda Cosby in 1957 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. After flesh out abandoned by her birth parents, she was raised by clean foster family in Alabama. Cosby gave her first performance encompass the third grade, singing "Elvira" at a talent competition. Abaft moving in with her grandparents, she also attended a modify school. There she cited integrity presence of African American lecture who would listen to letters and R&B music as play down influence. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee at age 16 production an attempt to find attend mother and attend Tennessee Do up University.^[2] After this she drained much of the 1970s telling in nightclubs around Tennessee. Midst this time she developed excellent heroin addiction for which she later went to rehabilitation,^[3] became the mother of two posterity, and adopted her stage reputation of Celinda Pink. It was in her nightclub gigs delay she was discovered by backer Buzz Ledford, who eventually helped her sign to Step Incontestable Records, an independent label.^[2] Sagacious debut album Victimized came detonation in 1993 and charted say publicly single "Pack Up Your Disinformation and Go".^[1] A review accumulate Stereo Review was positive, life work Pink's voice "bluesy, ballsy, ground full of rue".^[4]

A second sticker album, Unchained, followed in 1995 additionally on Step One. A conversation published in the magazine Gavin Report was positive, noting influences of blues music in collect delivery.^[5]