account afloat by doing session work throughout the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s.
In 1981, Jocelyn released ‘If I Can’t Have Your Love’ on the Spring based Posse Records. The track has become highly collectable amongst soul fans. Around 1982 she worked in the movie ‘Divine Madness’, starring Bette Midler. Returning east, she recorded ‘Caught Up in a One Night Love Affair,’ a very popular number in New York’s disco clubs like Studio 54, Paradise Garage, The Fever, Harlem World and Bond’s International. In the autumn of 1983, Brown teamed with her sister Annette and wrote ‘Somebody Else’s Guy,’ her most popular recording to date.
The track reached the number two position of Billboard’s Black singles chart and number 13 in the U.K.
In 1985, an acappella version of her tune ‘Love Is Gonna Get You’, was utilised by the U.K. band Snap with her vocals pitching in with the line ‘I Got The Power’.
In 1991, Jocelyn recorded with the UK band Incognito singing a version of Side Effects ‘Always There’.
She has appeared on Manu Dibango’s ‘Soul Makossa’ LP, cut ‘Ego Maniac’ and ‘Whatever Satisfies You’ (produced by Hubert Eaves III), recorded sides as a duet with Kym Mazelle in ‘No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)’ and ‘Love Me the Right Way,’
recorded ‘Riding on the Wings’ with Motiv 8 and
appeared in concert with Roy Ayers and Ray Gaskins (her cousin) overseas.
Another cousin, La Rita Gaskins, is a singer and musician in New York.
Ray resides in London and is a noted saxophonist, songwriter and producer.
Brown continues to write songs with her sister Annette, who also helps manage her family members’ creative activities. Like her brother, Brown lives in London (since 1990) and continues to be an in demand vocalist.
RECOMMENDED ALBUM FOR
DECEMBER 2010 Sunshine Anderson The Sun Shines Again
In spite of her optimistic moniker, it’s been anything but a bright and happy time
these last few years for Sunshine Anderson. Poised for stardom thanks to her 2001 smash, the inescapable “Heard It All Before,” Ms. Anderson’s soaring career momentum crashed and burned when her first label, Soullife, unexpect- edly folded. Left to the mercy of a Warner Bros. and Atlantic Records merger, the Winston- Salem, NC native learned that her sophomore effort, Sunshine at Midnight, was dead last on their priority list and scrambled to find another deal only to have it under-promoted by her new label, Matthew Knowles’ Music World Entertainment, in 2007.
The resulting turmoil affected her both personally and professionally, straining her marriage (to football player Christopher Terry) and sending
her life on a drug and alcohol-induced downward spiral. But luckily, like many other artists before her, the 36-year-old found solace in motherhood and by spilling the contents of her broken heart in the studio, making her third release, The Sun Shines Again, an authentic and essential listen.
It’s been a hectic and heart-wrenching decade for Ms. Anderson, but with music like this, the past shouldn’t have the power to eclipse her future as one of her generation’s most soulful conveyors of
contemporary R&B. Catchy, yet cathartic, this third time is the charm and proves that even in the midst of darkness, true talent can prevail and eventually, The Sun Shines Again
It’s been a hectic month as al- ways, firstly, thanks to those who came to the launch of DÉJÀ VU. It was a huge success, not a massive amount of punters BUT those that attended were really
disappointed when we had to stop proceedings at 2.15am, 15 minutes after the official
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