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Jocelyn Brown
real name Jocelyn Lorette Brown
Kinston, United States · b. 1950-11-25
Jocelyn Brown is credited on 1,933 releases across 608 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1977–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,933
Credits
608
Albums
6
Decades active
309
In collections
Biography
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American vocalist, lyricist, and artist.
Born: 25 November 1950 in Kinston, North Carolina, USA.
Brown has been a versatile vocalist to this day, singing on many R&B, Disco, Pop, and House productions.
Her aunt Barbara Roy inspired Jocelyn to spread her musical wings. She began her career in the 1970s as a studio singer for many groups and artists like Musique, Inner Life, Bad Girls, The Salsoul Orchestra, Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes, Van McCoy, Evelyn King, Gloria Gaynor, Phyllis Hyman, Vicki Sue Robinson, Dazzle, Revanche, Melba Moore, Roberta Flack, Cerrone, Chic and Change.
In 1984, she started her solo career gaining great success with the single "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 well recognised, working 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.
Niece of singer Barbara Roy.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,933 releases · 608 albums · active 1977–2025
- Performance · 2,733
- Production · 135
- Other credits · 41
Studios: Blank Tape Studios · Red Bus Studios · Power Station · Swanyard Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Back In The High Life
1986

Mind Games
1973

Give Me The Night
1980

Whiplash Smile
1986

New Sensations
1984

Idol Songs - 11 Of The Best
1988

The Lost Christmas Eve
2004

Edutainment
1990

Primitive Cool
1987

Illumination
2002

Soul Provider
1989

The Power
1989

PopArt (The Hits)
2003

Cover Me
1984

Nuyorican Soul
1997

Hercules (An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack)
1997

Rockbird
1986

From Luxury To Heartache
1986

Mange Tout
1984

A Retrospective
2000

It's Alright, I Feel It!
1997

Up
1992

Bulletproof Heart
1989

The Glow Of Love
1980
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