![]() ![]() Dobson played a showcase for Island/Def Jam about 30 seconds into the first song -a punk thrash track about longing, titled "Stupid Little Love Song"-the executives contracted her. Universal Music Canada president Randy Lennox showed interest in her, and coaxed Island Def Jam CEO Lyor Cohen and his manager of A&R, Jeff Fenster, to fly to Toronto for another showcase. Smith arranged showcases with several recording companies. After that experience, Dobson met Jay Levine and contracted with Nelly Furtado’s manager Chris Smith. Then I found out I wasn't Michael Jackson and it broke my heart." At the same time, she went to "every 'N Sync concert there was."īefore Dobson was signed, she claimed she had been stereotyped as a contemporary R&B or popular music singer instead of a rock musician due to her race, often being compared to Brandy Norwood and Britney Spears.ĭobson started writing music at the age of 13 years, and the company Jive Records attempted to develop her as a popular musician, which she eventually refused. Dobson has said that John Lennon and Judy Garland are her primary musical influences, and that her biggest musical inspiration growing up was Michael Jackson: "I swore I was Michael Jackson. Then at the age of 13 years, she started playing the piano. To this day, her teacher, Lucia, still teaches there and has a magazine clipping of her successful student posted on her window.ĭobson began sending demo tapes – recorded on a home karaoke machine – to many recording companies in North America when she was 11 years old. During her childhood, she took singing lessons at the New Conservatory of Music in Agincourt, Scarborough to improve her singing. ![]() She went to high school at Wexford Collegiate Institute. ![]() ![]() Dobson's mother is of English, Aboriginal, and French ancestry and her father is of Jamaican heritage. Early lifeDobson was born on February 28, 1985, in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. ![]()
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