- Simon Wilcox
Infobox Musical artist
Name = Simon Wilcox
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Background = solo_singer
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Origin = Hamilton,Ontario ,Canada
Occupation =Singer-songwriter
Genre = Rock
Years_active = 1996–present
Label =Universal Music Group
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URL = [http://www.simonwilcox.com www.simonwilcox.com]
Notable_instruments =Simon Wilcox 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 producerSadia Sadia . She is also the great niece of Canadian academicJohn Meisel . At the age of three, she was placed with a female friend of the family inOttawa ,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 toToronto .In 1996 while attending the
Ontario College of Art and Design , Wilcox played a prominent role in thegothic 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 theUniversity of Toronto 's FM stationCIUT-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), "Smart Function" (2003) and "The Charm and the Strange" (2007) 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" (an album produced by Michael Brook, and featuring Daniel Lanois)."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 ) (BillBoard #1 Active Rock) (#1 on the MuchMusic Countdown) and "Tell All Your Friends" (recorded byProjet Orange ) (#1 on the MuchMusic Countdown). Most recently Wilcox has been working with producer Mike Green (Paramore, the Matches) writing songs with Paris Hilton, The Higher (Epitaph) and Ten Second Epic (Sony ATV)(the latter produced by Garth Richardson).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.
An alumni of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Wilcox graduated in 1999, but upgraded her AOCAD accreditation to a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2007.
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 London, Toronto and Los Angeles.
External links
* [http://www.simonwilcox.com Simon Wilcox's home page]
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