BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper
Description: Vocalist , USA
Known For: Album – “Scorpion” (2001)
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Hip hop, East Coast Hip Hop,Hardcore Hip Hop, Pop Rap, R&B
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 10th November 1978
Location Born: East Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper (born November 10, 1978) is an American hip hop recording artist and actress from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also the inaugural winner of the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2002, for the song “Let Me Blow Ya Mind”, with American singer Gwen Stefani. Eve was number 48 on VH1’s “50 Greatest Women of the Video Era” list.
As an actress, Eve is known for her roles as Terri Jones in the films Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business, and as Shelley Williams on the UPN television sitcom Eve. She has also achieved success in fashion, with her clothing line, Fetish.
Eve was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Julie Wilch-Jeffers, a publishing company supervisor, and Jerry Jeffers, a chemical plant supervisor. She adopted the name Gangsta in high school as part of an all-female group called EDGP (pronounced “Egypt”). The rapper Eve is multiracial as well. She is of African American & Native American decent.
During her early years in Philadelphia, she was educated at Martin Luther King High School. Eve’s first musical interest was singing. She sang in many choirs and even formed an all-female singing group (Dope Girl Posse or D.G.P.) with a manager. This group covered songs from En Vogue and Color Me Badd. The group’s manager suggested that the group should rap after seeing ABC, and Eve stuck with it. She then went on to form a rapping group. After the group split, Eve began working on a solo career under the name “Eve of Destruction.” Eve has lived in Los Angeles, California, New York City, and most recently has resided in London.
In 1999, she was featured on Prince’s album Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, and she was to co-star on the eventually cancelled Hot Wit’ U single from that same album. Eve is featured (along with Erykah Badu) on the song “You Got Me” by The Roots, from their 1999 album Things Fall Apart. The song won a Grammy Award in 2000, which should have been Eve’s first. She stated on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in 2009 that she did not receive a Grammy for the track. Questlove, from The Roots, had brought his Grammy to the show that night and showed she’s not even credited on the award plaque. She also provided background vocals on the song “Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’ New” from the same album. In the album’s liner notes, she is referred to as Eve of Destruction. Eve would win her own in 2002.
1998–2001: Beginnings and breakthrough
Eve first appeared on the Bulworth soundtrack as Eve of Destruction while signed to Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment. She did not receive much promotion with big releases soon coming from Dr. Dre, so she collaborated with DMX and the Ruff Ryders on her first single as a Ruff Ryder DJ Clue?’s The Professional, along with other Ruff Ryders’ compilations. Her next single, “What Ya Want”, featuring Nokio the N-Tity of Dru Hill, became a top 40 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peaking at 29. Her 1999 debut, Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, was an unprecedented success, making it the third album by a female rap artist to top the Billboard 200, behind Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) and Foxy Brown’s Chyna Doll (1999). Two singles were released from the album: “Gotta Man” and “Love Is Blind” featuring Faith Evans. The first one peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100, the second one at number 34. In November 1999, Eve featured on Missy Elliott’s single “Hot Boyz (Remix)” along with Nas, Lil Mo and Q-Tip. The song became a hit, spending 18 weeks at number one on the Hot Rap Singles from November 16, 1999 to March 7, 2000, and reaching number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
The follow-up to Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, Scorpion, was released in 2001. Its first single, “Who’s That Girl” guaranteed the rapper first international success. The second single, “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” (with Gwen Stefani of No Doubt and produced by Dr. Dre co-written by then-boyfriend Stevie J.), became a pop success, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, and Eve eventually went platinum. One of the record’s strengths, cited in several reviews, was Eve’s exploration of her singing voice in addition to her rapping skills. “I was a singer before I started rapping,” Eve said in a Ruff Ryders press release, “so on this album I wanted my audience to hear more of my vocal skills”.
Acting career
Eve appeared in xXx with Vin Diesel, both Barbershop and Barbershop 2: Back in Business with Ice Cube, The Cookout with Queen Latifah and Meagan Good, and The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon in mid 2004. She voiced Major Jones in the video game XIII, as well as one of the villains of the short-lived show Spider-Man Animated Series on MTV. She also featured in the 2008 British movie Flashbacks of a Fool alongside Daniel Craig.
In 2003, Eve starred in the UPN television sitcom, Eve, as a fashion designer named Shelly. The show lasted three seasons until it was cancelled in May 2006. Eve guest starred as Yvette Powell on an episode of Third Watch. She also was a guest star on an episode of Numb3rs in 2009.
In 2009, she had a role in the film Whip It as Rosa Sparks, opposite Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore.
Eve guest starred on two episodes of Glee, appearing as rival glee club coach Grace Hitchens.
In 2010, Eve appeared as Latisha, a supporting role, in Noel Clarke’s film 4.3.2.1.
Eve appears as Mocha Sujata the Gypsy Queen in the 2013 film Bounty Killer (film), starring Matthew Marsden and Christian Pitre. The film was directed by Henry Saine.
Eve will be in the horror film Animal, which was filmed in Manchester, Connecticut and is currently in post-production. Produced by Drew Barrymore, the film co-stars Elizabeth Gilles and Keke Palmer, and is scheduled for a limited release in 2014.
In July 2014, it was announced that Eve would be starring alongside fellow entertainer Jill Scott as well as actress Regina Hall in a Lifetime movie about three women who become determined to get married in a year’s time after the group’s fourth member ties the knot.
Personal life
In 2012, Eve, Dr. Dre, Mike Lynn and Ruff Ryders Entertainment, Interscope Records, and Truth Hurts were accused of stealing songs from Gregory Hutchinson p/k/a Cold 187um of Above The Law. The plaintiffs claim the 1999 song “Love is Blind” was stripped of some of its original components and presented as their own work.
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