Jocelyn Brown maybe needs no introduction, but take this as a salute to maybe the best female dance music singer. Her career is truly a link between disco, post-disco era and the development of house music to this day. Brown started in the late seventies singing for studio groups for example Chic, Cerrone, Change and Patrick Adams’ projects Musique, Phreek and Inner Life. Her solo career’s breaking point was a 1984 hit “Somebody Else’s Guy”. In 1999 she appeared on Ministers De La Funk’s international house hit “Believe”. In Between she has done so much great music. Post YOUR favourite Jocelyn in the comments!

Late nineties music video version…

It’s Mrs. Brown singing backrounds on this one. She sang on Chic’s albums Tongue In Chic and Take It Off as well. Needless to say what’s sampled from this.

Snap’s “Power” has a sample taken out of this at 5:42.

The 1999 hit.. Check out the great Spen & Karizma version below.

Inner Life – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Mediafire 320k) (The Plauge Dance Classics Ending Theme)

Inner Life – Make It Last Forever (Mediafire 320k)

Cerrone – Hooked On You (Mediafire 320k)

Chic – Stage Fright / Burn Hard (Mediafire 320k)

Musique – Keep On Jumpin’ (Mediafire 320k)

Jocelyn Brown – Somebody Else’s Guy (Mediafire 320k)

Ministers De La Funk feat. Jocelyn Brown – Believe (Spen & Karizma Remix) (Mediafire 320k)

Playing these and some of the less known Jocelyn tracks for sure next Saturday at Yo-Talo:

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