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Cheryl L. Cook a.k.a. Cheryl "The Pearl? of ?The Sequence?. Born November 19, 1960. For as long as she can remember, she has had a love for music. She started listening to a variety of women whom she achieved a lot of her styles from such as Aretha Franklin, Millie Jackson, Gladys Knight, The Emotions, Natalie Cole, Chaka Khan, and especially the late Billie Holiday. Cheryl began entering talent shows in school and found out that she had a special talent. Such artists as, Parliament, The Gap Band, Confunshun, LTD, Kool & The Gang, Sam Cook, Otis Redding, James Brown, Ohio Players, and Luther Vandross were very instrumental in her process of becoming an entertainer. In high school, Cheryl joined forces with 2 of her best friends; Gwendolyn Chisolm and Angie Brown. They decided to put a group together and later became ?The Sequence?. On their journey to becoming the best female rap group of that era, they met Sylvia Robinson at the Township Auditorium in 1979. The girl group was asked to sing at one of the Sugar Hill Gang's shows, where they performed an original piece written by Cheryl Cook called ?Funk You UP?. Immediately Mrs. Robinson took them under her wings. The Sequence became the first female rappers to sell over 500,000 units of a 12' 12-inch single in the history of Hip Hop. Cheryl also wrote for the Sugar Hill Gang, such songs as 8th Wonder, Apache, & In the Fast Lane. For the West Street Mob, she wrote, Let's Dance & Break Dance. Her writing abilities didn't stop there because she wrote a lot of the songs for The Sequence, such as Funk You Up, Tear the Roof Off, and Monster Jam. A lot of music icons that Cheryl respects have sampled her work Such artists as Envoge, Dr. Dre', Buster Rhythms, Master P. Eddie Murphy in the movie Doctor Dolittle, Ice Cube in the movie Friday, Missy Elliot, Trina, Da La Sol, Jennifer Lopez and many more.