Citizen Cope is the stage name of singer-songwriter Clarence Greenwood and also
the name of his band featuring Jim Gaines and Vladimir Meller. Citizen Cope play
a kind of urban folk, merging blues, folk, hip-hop and rock influences.
Greenwood was born in Memphis but raised mainly in Washington and first appeared
on the albums of Maryland rapper Basehead in the early 1990s. He then released
his first Citizen Cope album, 'Cope Citizen' in 1992. For the rest of the 1990s
he contributed to independent compilations and performing on the soundtracks of
films such as 'Eat Me' and 'Cl...