Paula Cole

Paula Cole is an American singer-songwriter whose single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Cole got her first big professional break when she was invited to perform on Peter Gabriel's 1993-1994 Secret World Live tour. She released her first album Harbinger in 1994 and a single, "I Am So Ordinary", was released with a black and white video that reflected the album's artwork. She appeared with Melissa Etheridge to sing a duet on VH1 though she was not well known at the time.

In late 1996, Cole released her second album, This Fire, which was entirely self-produced. The albums' debut single, "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone", became an instant smash radio and MTV hit. The follow-up single, "I Don't Want to Wait", was a #11 pop hit single, its popularity in part due to its usage as the theme song for the hit teen drama series Dawson's Creek. The single "Me" was also released. The title "Hush, Hush, Hush," a duet with Peter Gabriel, talks about AIDS and about a young man dying in his father's comforting arms. "Feelin' Love" was a single that was included on the soundtrack to City of Angels.

Cole toured with Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair and was nominated for several Grammy awards in 1997 including "Producer of the Year" and "Best New Artist" which see won.

In 1999, Cole released Amen with the newly formed "Paula Cole Band". The album's debut single "I Believe In Love" was remixed into a successful dance song. A fourth album was recorded but the label refused to release it. In 2005, Cole uploaded one of the tracks, "Singing Out My Life," to her own website. She also recorded a song called "It's My Life" during these sessions, which can be heard in Mercury automobile commercials.

Cole returned in June 2007 with her fourth studio album Courage, and her fifth studio album, Ithaca, was released in September 2010.