Capone-N-Noreaga

Their debut album, The War Report, was released in 1997 while Noreaga was serving another prison sentence. Odia Coates passed away in 1991 at the age of forty-nine of breast cancer. The two grew up in bad neighborhoods in Queensbridge and LeFrak City, and met each other in jail in 1992. They recorded several more duets that produced Top 10 & Top 20 hits such as 1974's "One Man Woman/One Woman Man" plus in 1975 "I Don't Like To Sleep Alone" and "There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love." Coates went on to record on her own, meeting with modest success. Capone-N-Noreaga is a rap act that consists of Capone (Kiam Holley) and Noreaga (Victor Santiago). 1 on the Billboard charts in 1974. MTV biography (http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/capone_noreaga/bio.jhtml). Coates is best remembered for her duet with Paul Anka called " (You're) Having My Baby" that went to No.

From an early age, she sang in her church choir and eventually became a member of the Southern California State Youth Choir. The daughter of an evangelical minister, she was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi but as a young girl her family moved to Watts, California. Odia Coates (1942 - May 19, 1991) was an American singer.