Jocelyn Brown

Jocelyn Brown is an American R&B and dance singer born in Kinston, South Carolina on November 25, 1950. She started singing in gospel choirs in Brooklyn. She went on to sing with a local band named the Machine and the disco group Kleeer. In the late 1970s she was singing on records by studio-created bands like Chic, Bad Girls, Cerrone, Change, Inner Life, Revanche and more. In 1980 she made an appearance in the movie Divine Madness as a backup singer. In 1984 she released her debut studio album titled Somebody Else’s Guy and has since released the albums One from the Heart, Jocelyn’s Classic R&B Mastercuts, Jocelyn’s Classic Reggae Mastercuts, Unreleased, Circles, and True Praise. Brown has over 20 hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, four reaching number one. In 2006 and 2007 she appeared on both seasons of BBC One’s celebrity singing competition show Just the Two of Us coming in sixth in the first season and fourth in the second. In 2011 she appeared in the British reality television show Pop Star to Opera Star.