Simon Wilcox
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Simon Wilcox (b. 1976 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian musician and artist.
Wilcox is the daughter of Canadian rock musician David Wilcox and British artist/record producer Sadia Sadia. She is also the great niece of Canadian academic John Meisel. At the age of three, she was placed with a female friend of the family in Ottawa, Ontario while her parents went on tour. She grew up in Ottawa, seeing her parents on a sporadic basis until she turned 17, when she moved to Toronto.
In 1996 while attending the Ontario College of Art and Design, Wilcox played a prominent role in the gothic rock group Exovedate’s second CD. The album was very well received by college, university, and underground radio, notably charting in the top 10 on the University of Toronto's FM station CIUT-FM for three months in 1997. While Wilcox is cited as a remaining and important influence on this band, it was her unfettered solo albums Mongrel of Love (2000) and Smart Function (2003), which firmly established her as an important Canadian musician.
Wilcox has also had significant success as a songwriter, as outlined by the following quote: "SOCAN was proud to present a No. 1 Song Award to Simon Wilcox for "Stay," which reached the peak of Canadian Music Network's Bravo! chart on Oct. 18, 2005. "Stay," which Wilcox co-wrote with distinctive Quebec-based star Jorane, is published by EMI April Music Canada Ltd., Hypnotizing Boogie Publishing and Les Éditions Avalanche Sound. The song appears on Jorane's 2004 album, The You and the Now.
The presentation marked Wilcox's third co-written No. 1 song in little more than a year, each recorded by remarkably different performers: the first two are "Home" (recorded by Three Days Grace) and "Tell All Your Friends" (recorded by Projet Orange.)"
Simon currently divides her time between the UK and Toronto.
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