Stephanie Lecor, known professionally as Steph Lecor () is a Haitian-American cast member of ''
Love & Hip Hop: Miami'' and singer.
Early years
Lecor was born and raised in
Miami
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...
,
Florida
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to
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
an parents. Her father was in a Haitian band, where she would watch him record at an early age. Her parents put her in choir practice and was given vocal lessons as a child.
Career
2009–present: Kulture Shock
In 2009, after touring nationwide as a backup singer for
Ky-Mani Marley
Ky-Mani Ronald Marley (born 26 February 1976) is a Jamaican reggae musician. In 2001, he received a Grammy nomination for his album '' Many More Roads''. He is the only child of the late reggae musician Bob Marley and Anita Belnavis, a Jamaica ...
, Lecor started a solo career. Then, she discovered Jase and City Boi,
who had collaborated on songwriting with various artists for
Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label based in Santa Monica, California, owned by Universal Music Group through its Interscope Geffen A&M imprint. Founded in late 1990 by Jimmy Iovine and Ted Field as a $20 million joint venture ...
and
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recor ...
, were looking for a female singer to create a group called Kulture Shock. Together, the group was signed by
Poe Boy Entertainment
Poe Boy Music Group (formerly Poe Boy Entertainment) is an American record label, founded in 1999 by Elric "E-Class" Prince, the label's founder and CEO. President of Poe Boy Music Group Elvin "Big Chuck" Prince, CEO of Hiram Music Group & CEO of ...
in a joint venture deal with France-based record label Artop/Universal.
Solo singles
References
Living people
American musicians of Haitian descent
American women pop singers
American women hip-hop musicians
American hip-hop singers
Singers from Miami
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women singers
21st-century American singers
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