Imani Coppola

Wordplay and hooks have been constant in the otherwise dynamic, stylistically varied career of Imani Coppola. The singer, rapper, violinist, songwriter, and producer scored a Top 40 pop hit with her debut single for Columbia, "Legend of a Cowgirl" (1997), but within three years she was pushed to the margins of the industry. She bounced back as an independent artist with a flurry of colorful and adventurous solo albums including Post-Traumatic Pop Syndrome (2002), The Black & White Album (2007), and Hypocrites (2017), plus a trilogy of streetwise pop-soul albums with Adam Palli...