The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

On February 17 2004 Deborah Cox made her Broadway debut in the Elton John-Tim Rice musical Aida returning to recording only to release a dance remix of "Easy As Life" as a single. Won: Soul Train Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Female ("Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"). 1998–2001: One Wish
The first single from that album "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" spent fourteen weeks at #1 on the Hot R&B charts in the USA as well as eight consecutive weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Deborah Cox (born July 13 1974) is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1998 song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart (14 weeks) a record held for nearly eight years. She has achieved eleven number-one hits on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart.