Brown
Real Name:
Jocelyn Lorette Brown
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Born on November 25, 1950, North Carolina, U.S.A. She was a very versatile vocalist over the years, singing on many R&B, Disco, Pop, and House productions.
She is sometimes credited as Jocelyn Shaw.
Her aunt Barbara Roy inspired Jocelyn Brown to spread her musical wings. She began her career in the 1970's as a studio singer for many groups and artists like Musique, Inner Life, Bad Girls, Salsoul Orchestra, The, Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes, Van McCoy, Dazzle, Cerrone, Chic and Change.
In 1984, she started her solo career with a couple of singles including including "Somebody Else's Guy," which reached #2 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart (#75 on the Hot 100). In 1985-87 she worked with Culture Club and toured with them.
In 1990, some of her records started to be sampled by House and Rap producers. Among them: Snap! (who sampled her vocals from "Love's Gonna Get You").
Since then, her contribution to the world of dance music has been largely recognized. She worked with countless artists of the genre, such as Todd Terry, Martha Wash, Kym Mazelle, Jamestown, Cassius, Right Said Fred, DJ BoBo and many, many others.
She is sometimes credited as Jocelyn Shaw.
Her aunt Barbara Roy inspired Jocelyn Brown to spread her musical wings. She began her career in the 1970's as a studio singer for many groups and artists like Musique, Inner Life, Bad Girls, Salsoul Orchestra, The, Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes, Van McCoy, Dazzle, Cerrone, Chic and Change.
In 1984, she started her solo career with a couple of singles including including "Somebody Else's Guy," which reached #2 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart (#75 on the Hot 100). In 1985-87 she worked with Culture Club and toured with them.
In 1990, some of her records started to be sampled by House and Rap producers. Among them: Snap! (who sampled her vocals from "Love's Gonna Get You").
Since then, her contribution to the world of dance music has been largely recognized. She worked with countless artists of the genre, such as Todd Terry, Martha Wash, Kym Mazelle, Jamestown, Cassius, Right Said Fred, DJ BoBo and many, many others.
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| Releases: | ||||
| Gimme All Your Lovin' (CD, Maxi, CD2) | Ding Dong, Bell Records, Arista | 1994 | ||
| The Hits (CD, Comp) | INCredible | 1998 | ||
| I'm A Woman (2x12") | Astralwerks, Virgin France S.A. | 2002 | ||
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| Keep Me In Mind (12", Maxi) | Virgin Schallplatten GmbH | 1987 | ||
| Sold (Album) ◄ (2 versions) | Virgin Records America ... | 1987 | ||
| Dance Classics - The Remixes Volume 2 (2xLP) | Somebody Else's Guy (R... | Arcade | 1990 | |
| Dance Classics - The Remixes Volume 4 (CD, Comp) | Somebody Else's Guy (R... | Arcade | 1990 | |
| Dance Classics - The Remixes Volume 4 (Cass, Album) | Somebody Else's Guy (R... | Arcade | 1990 | |
| Nightfever (2xCD, Comp) | Somebody Else's Guy | Global Television | 1995 | |
| Ohio (CD, Single) | FFRR | 1995 | ||
| Dance Box 3 (3xCD, Comp) | Take Me Up, Take Me Up | EVA | 1996 | |
| Au Rêve (Album) ◄ (4 versions) | I'm A Woman | Astralwerks ... | 2002 | |
| Tracks Appear On: | ||||
| Nightfever (2xCD, Comp) | Somebody Else's Guy | Global Television | 1995 | |
| Dance Box 3 (3xCD, Comp) | Take Me Up | EVA | 1996 | |
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Well, that's exactly how I would define Jocelyn Brown's songs. If we think about how many generations were touched by "Love Is Gonna Get You" acapella, how many producers sampled it, how many tunes perpetuated it...
Up to the point that, if she spent your whole life with only that single tune on her discography, she'd still be an essential singer of the history of the Dance Music of the last thirty years.
But her overpowering, inspiring voice, granted us even more. Only Jocelyn could record an old hit such as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and still make it sound unique...
Inner Life's "Caught Up (In One Night Love Affair)" is another eternal anthem of the dance music culture, for everytime we listen to Brown's vocals , it makes us reason about the so-called human reality...
Perhaps that's what is so special about the ensemble of Jocelyn's artistic work, about The Power of her voice - The signature of it, the human aspect of it, the sensibility of it, the absurdity, the sensuality of it, the feeling of it, the inevitability of it...