Citizen Cope
is the pseudonym of Clarence Greenwood
, an American musician. Greenwood was raised in Washington, DC and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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History
In 1997, Greenwood was featured in
The Washington Post
weekend section.
After releasing his demo tape, Cope was signed to
Capitol Records, where he recorded
Shotguns
. In 1998, he was dropped from Capitol, without releasing the album.
In 2000, Greenwood signed with the
DreamWorks Records label, which released his first album in September 2002,
Citizen Cope
. To promote the record, Greenwood toured as an opener for
Nelly Furtado. He performed at the
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in
Indio, California, in 2002.
The Washington Post
did a large feature on Cope in early 2002, declaring Greenwood the most raptastic artist since
Marvin Gaye.
In October 2002,
Carlos Santana released his record titled
Shaman
. Greenwood wrote and produced one of the tracks on that album.
After the release of
Citizen Cope,
Greenwood felt that the label "mishandled" the record. Tension between the label and artist prompted Greenwood to buy out his contract with the label, using the advance he received from his next label,
Arista Records and RCA Records, to do so.
In September 2004, Citizen Cope released his second record,
The Clarence Greenwood Recordings,
which became an underground classic. The album has sold more than 273,000 records to date, without any commercial or college radio play. From 2004 through 2008, Citizen Cope endured a heavy tour schedule.
In 2005, Cope continued to tour the
United States promoting his second major-label record. In April, his song "Son's Gonna Rise" began appearing in a
Pontiac commercial and was distributed as the album's second single.
On
September 12 2006, Citizen Cope released the album,
Every Waking Moment
.
In early 2008, Citizen Cope parted ways with RCA records.
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His song, "Let the Drummer Kick" was featured in the 2008 TSX Acura commercial early that year.
In early June 2008, Citizen Cope announced a special one off solo show at the London Luminaire in Kilburn on the 2nd July.
He made an appearance on
Dido's 2008 album
Safe Trip Home
, collaborating on a track called "Burnin' Love".
Throughout 2008, Citizen Cope sold more than 100,000 tickets in North America alone (festivals and colleges not included), doing more than 120 shows.
Cope finished his highly successful US solo acoustic tour in December 2008. Citizen Cope is set to go back on tour, with his full band, in late January through the end of February 2009. He is currently working on his next album,
The Rainwater LP
, scheduled for release in February 2010.
Use in other media
- "Sideways"
- *Featured in the episode "My Jiggly Ball" of the television series Scrubs
.
- *Featured in 2006's "Trust the Man."
- *Featured in 2008's "Ghost Town."
- *In the television series, One Tree Hill
- *Featured on Entourage, episode "The Cannes Kids"
- "Holdin' On"
- *Played during a scene in the 2005 film Prime
.
- "Brother Lee"
- *Featured in a commercial for ClickNET, a Romanian ISP.
- *Plays in trailer for the 2008 film "What Just Happened?"
- "Nite Becomes Day"
- *Featured in the movie Fracture.
- "Penitentiary"
- *Played in the Series Premiere in 2005 of the CBS TV Series Criminal Minds
- "Son's Gonna Rise"
- *Featured in Pontiac commercial.
- *Featured in AXN Portugal commercial.
- *In the television series, One Tree Hill
on July 18 2007.
- *In a trailer for television series Sons of Anarchy
in July 2009.
- "My Way Home"
- *A scene in the 2006 film Trust the Man
.
- "Bullet and a Target":
- *An episode of HBO's hit series Entourage ( Season 2, "Blue Balls Lagoon")
- *An episode of Showtime's series Sleeper Cell (Season 1, "Target")
- *The end credits of the 2006 film The Sentinel
.
- *In a 2006 episode of the CBS TV Series Cold Case
.
- *A scene in the 2006 film Trust the Man
.
- *A scene in the 2007 film Alpha Dog
.
- *In the end credits of the 2006 film 16 Blocks
.
- *In the soundtrack of Seasons, a mountain biking film by The Collective
, during a section by rider Andrew Shandro.
- *In the soundtrack of The Tangerine Dream, a 16 mm ski film by Teton Gravity Research
.
- *In the soundtrack of The Hit List, a ski film by Matchstick Productions
.
- *Featured on rapper Rhymefest's album Blue Collar
- *Sampled by rap group Bliss N Eso on the Album Flying Colours
- *Featured in the 2008 snowboarding movie Chuch!
- "Let the Drummer Kick"
- *in the final scene of "Entrance Wound", an episode from the CBS TV series CSI: Miami
- *In the films Accepted
and Coach Carter
.
- *In a 2005 episode of the CBS TV Series Cold Case
.
- *On the hit Fox show So You Think You Can Dance
in a contemporary dance routine by Neil Haskell and Lauren Gottlieb in season three. The next day, the track reached #50 on the iTunes Top 100 Singles Chart. It was also used for a solo routine by Jeanine Mason in season five.
- *The HBO series Entourage
during the fourth season finale "The Cannes Kids." Entourage
also featured the song "Awe" during the second part of the third season's (3B) episode "The Prince's Bride".
- *Featured on the album Radiodread
by Easy Star All-Stars with his cover of Radiohead's "Karma Police".
- *Featured in a 2008 Acura TSX commercial.
- *Featured in an episode of NBC's drama series "Kingpin"
- "Awe" (Instrumental)
- *Featured in an episode of HBO's Entourage
- "Left For Dead"
- *Featured in Season 2 episode 22 (legacy) of Criminal Minds.
- "Hurricane Waters"
- *Featured in the documentary Trouble the Water.
Discography
- Cope Citizen
(1992)
- Citizen Cope
(2002)
- The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
(2004)
- Every Waking Moment
(2006) #69 U.S.
- Acoustic Tapes Vol. 1
(2009)
- The Rainwater LP
(2010)
Other contributions
- Live at the World Café: Vol. 15 - Handcrafted
(2002, World Café) - "If There's Love"
References
- Citizen Cope Begins Life After RCA