His musical career really started when playing with the Universals, a soul band who were locally popular in the early 1960s.
He is an original member of the popular 1960s blue-eyed soul band the Rascals.
Initially they were a soul band playing Motown covers and rock-based material.
As a child, Cox was a member of his school choir, and at eighteen, he joined a soul band.
Simply Red were an English soul band that sold more than 50 million albums over a 25-year career.
It tells of working class Dubliners who form a soul band.
He was one of two lead singers in a local soul band called The Illusions.
However, she quit after a year to become a singer in a soul band.
The Foundations were a British soul band, active from 1967 to 1970.
He later ventured into jazz and rock music, playing in a soul band the Faboulistics.