Photo: Javier Díaz Barrera · CC BY-SA 2.0 · credits
Timeline
11 events▣ Album 8◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1
1950s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Takin' A Stand
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2000s
2010s
Biography
English biography112 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1346550873
Biography
Deborah Coleman (October 3, 1956 – April 12, 2018) was an American blues musician. Coleman won the Orville Gibson Award for "Best Blues Guitarist, Female" in 2001, and was nominated for a W.C. Handy Blues Music Award nine times.
Biography
Coleman was born in Portsmouth, Virginia She graduated in 1974 from Deep Creek High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. She worked in various professions, including as a master electrician, before pursuing a career in the music business.
Her album Time Bomb
Time BombSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Time Bomb3:182Hitting on Nothing2:573So Far4:524Talking Loud3:455Strong Enough to Hold You4:036Show Me3:407Motor City3:598Get Up3:309Two Moons Gone3:3610Don't Start the Car3:3711In the Basement3:27 (2007) featured three women blues musicians: Coleman, Sue Foley and Roxanne Potvin.
Coleman died unexpectedly on April 12, 2018, in a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, from complications brought on by bronchitis and pneumonia.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 11 | 82.8th |
| Studio albums | 8 | 88.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 11 | 87.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 20 | 45.6th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (11 release groups · 8 studio albums)
Albums · 8
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 45:08
1Evil Gal's Daughter3:342Missin' You5:033Don't Talk About Love4:154Takin' a Stand4:595I Believe3:136Moanin' the Blues4:207I Cry3:498What Should I Do?4:179Can't Leave the Blues4:4310Them Changes4:0911Changes Revisited2:461997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 42:20
1I Can't Lose4:382My Heart Bleeds Blue4:283Roll With Me4:144The Man Is Mine4:145Brick3:456Fine & Mellow4:507Feelin' Alright5:008Something's Wrong3:249I Found You3:3410My Love Belongs to You4:131998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 42:03
1Love Moves Me3:272Goodbye Misery3:203Hain't It Funny4:174Travellin' South4:055The Dream4:026Walk Your Walk4:207They Raided the Joint3:358Do You Want My Love3:469On the Hunt3:4910Beside Myself3:3111Nobody to Blame3:512000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 43:47
1Look What You Do to Me3:402Confused3:293Soft Place to Fall4:234Don't Lie to Me3:415If You Love Me Like You Say3:386Another Hoping Fool4:157I'm a Woman4:518So Damn Easy4:099Nothin' to Do With Love3:3410What Goes Around4:1411The Day It Comes3:532001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 43:00
1Livin’ on Love3:492You’re With Me3:333Light of Day3:424Memory Lane4:095Crazy3:546Bending Like a Willow Tree3:517Happy When You’re Unhappy4:338Don’t Talk in My Sleep4:019Heaven’s Got the Blues3:3310Torn in Two3:3311Deserted Highway4:222004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 50:41
1Bad Boy3:462Lie No Better3:443Undeniable4:114Can You Hear Me?5:155When Will I Be Loved?4:196Healing Ground5:147The River Wild5:368What About Love?3:489Loves Like Rain4:1610Lookin' For A Real Love5:1511A Woman In Love5:172007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 48:39
1I Got to Know5:232Stop the Game5:453Motor City II3:374Everlastin' Tears4:325Greezy6:346Changes6:377Long Time3:358Seven Days3:409Zero3:5110Wagon Wheel5:052007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 40:44
1Time Bomb3:182Hitting on Nothing2:573So Far4:524Talking Loud3:455Strong Enough to Hold You4:036Show Me3:407Motor City3:598Get Up3:309Two Moons Gone3:3610Don't Start the Car3:3711In the Basement3:27
Album · 3
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Soul Be ItSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 8 tracks · 55:321Brick4:38 2My Heart Bleeds Blue6:26 3Don't Lie to Me7:42 4I'm a Woman10:36 5You're With Me3:33 6I Believe3:37 7The Dream6:49 8Goodbye Misery12:11 | Live | 2002 | |
| 2008 | Blues Caravan: Guitars & FeathersSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks · 1:13:041Won’t Leave3:06 2Bring Your Loving Home3:47 3Heal My Blues2:45 4Come Undone3:26 5I Love You More Than I Hate Myself5:44 6You Need a Great Big Woman4:14 7My Country Man2:49 8I’m Lucky3:26 9Crazy Little Thing2:50 10Toughest Girl Alive2:41 11Bad Boy4:02 12I Got to Know4:19 13Fight4:45 14Jesus Just Left Chicago4:40 15Something’s Got a Hold on Me4:46 16Whole Lotta Love10:59 17Rocking on the Blues Caravan4:45 | Live | 2008 | |
| 2015 | The Essential Deborah ColemanSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 56:021I'm a Woman4:51 2Roll With Me4:14 3My Heart Bleeds Blue4:28 4Don't Lie to Me3:41 5Look What You Do to Me3:40 6I Can't Lose4:38 7Travelin' South4:05 8Goodbye Misery3:20 9Livin' on Love3:49 10Crazy3:54 11Deserted Highway4:22 12I Believe (live)3:37 13You're With Me (live)3:33 14Nobody to Blame3:50 | Compilation | 4 September 2015 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Deborah Coleman head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 11 | 82.8th |
| Studio albums | 8 | 88.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 11 | 87.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 20 | 45.6th |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deborah_Coleman.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c617335d-9183-42e1-88a2-3fdbc42bc7a6discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c617335d-9183-42e1-88a2-3fdbc42bc7a6core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1181553genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1181553seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Colemanbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Coleman
Why this artist is in the database
- List of blues musicians — rank #23
| 1956 | 2018 | Virginia | Electric blues |
Tier rule: genre canon: blues
Image: Javier Díaz Barrera · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q1181553 · MusicBrainz: c617335d-9183-42e1-88a2-3fdbc42bc7a6
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