Rox (singer)

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Rox at the Dot to Dot Festival, Manchester, 2010.
Background information
Birth name	Roxanne Tataei
Born	Norbury, London
Genres	Soul, R&B, reggae
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals acoustic guitar Keyboard
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Rough Trade
Website	thisisrox.com

Rox is the stage name of English soul singer-songwriter Roxanne Tataei.

Born in Norbury, Croydon, Rox is half-Jamaican (Mother) and half-Iranian (Father). She cites living with her grandparents and being a regular churchgoer as her introduction to singing.

By age 10, Rox was a part of the National Youth Music Theatre and travelled across Britain appearing in various productions with them. By her 14th birthday she had her first guitar and was experimenting with several musical genres. She rehearsed her music at Scream Studios in Croydon.

Rox's musical influences include Lauryn Hill, Joni Mitchell, Sade, Mary J. Blige and Alanis Morissette.

After forming her first band in 2007, Rox attracted interest from a variety of labels before signing with Rough Trade in November 2008. Since signing, she has appeared on tours with the likes of Mark Ronson and Daniel Merriweather and on such television shows as Later... with Jools Holland (Series 35). She has also appeared at the Reading and Leeds Festivals with Wiley and BBC Electric Proms with Nitin Sawhney, whose London Undersound album she was one of the guest collaborators.

Rox's debut single, "No Going Back", was released on seven-inch vinyl on 15 December 2009. She told Steve Lamacq on his Radio 2 show that the song is about "leaving a relationship and not wanting to go back to that situation."