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J. Brown

Real Name:
Jocelyn Lorette Brown
Profile:
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.
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Discography

Releases:
I Wish You Would (Maxi) (2 versions)   4th & Broadway ... 1984
Somebody Else's Guy (Single, Maxi) (8 versions)   Vinyl Dreams Records ... 1984
Somebody Else's Guy (LP, Album)   Vinyl Dreams Records 1984
Turn Out The Lights (CD, Maxi)   Hot Records (5) 1990
Fake / Give Me Back Your Love (CD, Single, Promo)   Virgin Records (Sweden) 1997
Happiness (2 versions)   S3 ... 1997
The Ultimate Experience (CD, Album)   Virgin Records (Sweden), Virgin Records (Sweden) 1997
Show You Love (12")   Dream Beat 1998
Believe (3 versions)   Subliminal ... 1999
It's All Good (Single) (3 versions)   INCredible ... 1999
I Don't Want You Anymore (Remixes) (12")   Kingdom Kome Cuts 2007
Production:
Disco Nights Volume 2 (CD, Comp) Somebody Else's Guy Unidisc 1998
Party People Present - Boogie Nights (2xCD, Album, Comp) Somebody Else's Guy Party People 2003
12"/80s Grooves (3xCD, Comp) Someone Elses Guy (Vocal) Family Recordings (UK) 2007
Appears On:
Ain't No Mountain High Enough / Pay Girl (12", Maxi) Pay Girl, Pay Girl Flarenasch 1981
Best Of 12 Inch Gold (Volume 18) (CD, Comp) I Wish You Would Old Gold (2) 1991
Extasis Total (2xCD, Comp) Gypsy Rhythm (Single V... Hispavox 1991
Making Waves (2 versions) Take Me Up Fifth World ... 1994
Somebody Else's Guy (CD, Promo, Sin)   A&M Records 1997
The Annual III (Comp) (2 versions) Something Goin' On (Lo... Ministry Of Sound 1997
Disco Nights Volume 2 (CD, Comp) Somebody Else's Guy Unidisc 1998
Kremlin 2 (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) It's All Good (Full In... Enter Records 1999
Club Nation (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) Believe (Richard F's C... Ministry Of Sound (Australia) 2000
Oxford Street Anthems Volume Two (2xCD, Comp) Believe (Original Mix)... Central Station 2000
Subliminal French Edition - Volume 1 (2xCD) It's All Good (The Dro... Independance Records, Virgin Music (France) 2002
Party People Present - Boogie Nights (2xCD, Album, Comp) Somebody Else's Guy Party People 2003
Subliminal French Edition - Volume 2 (2xCD) Believe, Believe, Fun ... Virgin Music (France), Independance Records 2003
Club Fever (4xCD, Comp) Believe, Believe Wagram 2004
Disco Funk (6xCD, Comp) Somebody Else's Guy Wagram 2004
Perfecto Presents... DJ Skribble (CD, Comp, Mixed) Believe (Groove Collec... Thrive Records 2005
12"/80s Grooves (3xCD, Comp) Someone Elses Guy (Vocal) Family Recordings (UK) 2007
Stereo Sushi 11 (Comp) (2 versions) I Don't Want You (Anym... Stereo Sushi 2007
Tracks Appear On:
Best Of 12 Inch Gold (Volume 18) (CD, Comp) I Wish You Would Old Gold (2) 1991
The Annual III (Comp) (2 versions) Happiness (Extended Ve... Ministry Of Sound 1997
Disco Nights Volume 2 (CD, Comp) Somebody Else's Guy Unidisc 1998
Kremlin 2 (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) It's All Good (Full In... Enter Records 1999
Club Nation (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) Believe (Richard F's C... Ministry Of Sound (Australia) 2000
Oxford Street Anthems Volume Two (2xCD, Comp) Believe (Original Mix) Central Station 2000
Subliminal French Edition - Volume 1 (2xCD) It's All Good (The Dro... Independance Records, Virgin Music (France) 2002
Party People Present - Boogie Nights (2xCD, Album, Comp) Somebody Else's Guy Party People 2003
Subliminal French Edition - Volume 2 (2xCD) Believe, Fun (Main Voc... Virgin Music (France), Independance Records 2003
Club Fever (4xCD, Comp) Believe Wagram 2004
Disco Funk (6xCD, Comp) Somebody Else's Guy Wagram 2004
Perfecto Presents... DJ Skribble (CD, Comp, Mixed) Believe (Groove Collec... Thrive Records 2005
12"/80s Grooves (3xCD, Comp) Someone Elses Guy (Vocal) Family Recordings (UK) 2007
Stereo Sushi 11 (Comp) (2 versions) I Don't Want You (Anym... Stereo Sushi 2007
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Incognito (feat Jocelyn Brown) Always There
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by Alain_Patrick Mar 07, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
I remember very well reading a biography of Bessie Smith some time ago and there was a specific passage where it was written that her music, after all, was about "the expression of the human condition", and about the most deep, intense, human feelings.

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...
Review by phraze2amaze Aug 25, 2002
A very famous Female vocal that is widely sampled in electronic music as well as pop music.

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