Imani Coppola is an R&B/pop singer from New York. She’s best known for “Legend of a Cowgirl,” her transatlantic Top 40 hit, released in 1997. The song’s parent album, Chupacabra, was released the same year and spawned the follow-up single “I’m a Tree,” which was comparatively unsuccessful – it peaked at number 201 in Australia and failed to chart anywhere else. However, she continues to release albums, including Hypocrites, released in 2017, whose lead single, “Just Feels Good,” enjoyed a second round of popularity in 2019 after its use in the Netflix film Juanita. In 2019, she released her thirteenth solo album, The Protagonist.

Though “Cowgirl” remains Coppola’s biggest solo hit, she achieved success as one-half of pop duo Little Jackie, who achieved a UK Top 20 hit in 2009 with “The World Should Revolve Around Me.” After three albums, the duo disbanded, with Coppola saying in a 2017 interview that her bandmate, Adam Pallin, “has moved on to other projects and I need to focus on my own music. Plus, that sound is kind of over now (at least for me it is).”