Jocelyn is a surname and first name. It is a unisex (male/female) name. Variants include Jocilyn'", '"Joscelyn, Joscelin, Josceline, Jocelin, Jocelyne, Jocelynne, Jocelynn, Joslin, Joslyn, Joclyn, Joselyn, Joselyne and Josslyn; people that have this name may find it is often misspelled by others. The name may derive from Josselin in Brittany, France and was introduced to England after the Norman Conquest. It may also derive from the Germanic name Gauzlin, also spelled Goslin.

In French, the spelling "Jocelyn" is exclusively male. The female counterpart is spelled "Jocelyne".

The Irish name Oisdealbh was originally a translation of Jocelyn, to gaelicize Jocelyn de Angulo's given name. His Ireland-based descendants bore the surname Mac Oisdealbhaigh (son of Oisdealbh), which is better known in its anglicized form Costello.

Given name[link]

Jocelyn[link]

• Jocelyn Angloma, French-Guadeloupean soccer player
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, UK astronomer
• Jocelyn Brown, American singer
• Goscelin, 11th century hagiographer, also known as Jocelyn
• Jocelyn de Brakelond, 12th century chronicler
• Jocelyn Enriquez, American singer
• Jocelyn Jee Esien, British comedian
• Jocelyn McCallum, Australian softball player
• Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australian film director
• Jocelyn Pook, English violist
• Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian hockey player
• Joss Stone, whose birth name is Jocelyn Eve Stoker

Joscelin[link]

• Joscelin, Bishop of Paris, 9th century French cleric
• Joscelin I, Count of Edessa, Crusader lord
• Joscelin II, Count of Edessa, Crusader lord
• Joscelin III of Edessa, Crusader lord
• Joscelin of Louvain, Brabantian/English nobleman

Josceline[link]

• Josceline Percy, officer in the British Royal Navy
• Josceline Percy, English politician

Jocelin[link]

• Jocelin (d. 1199), abbot of Melrose, and Bishop of Glasgow
• Jocelin of Soissons (d. 1152)
• Jocelin of Wells, a 13th century bishop of Bath and Wells
• Jocelin de Dijon (fl. 1200–25), trouvère

Joceline[link]

• Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, English nobleman

Jocelyne[link]

• Jocelyne Lanois, French-Canadian singer
• Jocelyne Villeton, French long-distance runner

Surname[link]

• John Joscelyn, an English antiquarian
• For the Jocelyns of Hyde Hall near Sawbridgeworth, see the Earl of Roden

Opera[link]

• Jocelyn composed by Benjamin Godard

See also[link]

• Joslin

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Jocelyn Pook (born 14 February 1960, Birmingham, England) is a British composer, pianist and viola player.

Biography[link]

Jocelyn Pook’s distinctive style is a product of her diverse experiences in classical, commercial, and so-called world music. After graduating from London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she performed with many pop artists including The Communards and Massive Attack, and formed Electra Strings for whom she wrote original material. She has worked extensively with eminent dance companies such as DV8 and Shobana Jeyasingh, and in 2002 she was commissioned by the BBC Proms to write a work for The King’s Singers in collaboration with Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.

As one of the Leytonstone Contingent, Pook recorded on two occasions with pianist Jeremy Peyton Jones for Rough Trade and later for Century XXI. About a year later, she joined Anne Stephenson and Audrey Riley to accompany Virginia Astley both on stage and record. Session work followed and alternated with her co-founding of the Electra Strings with Australian violinist Sonia Slany and an album on the Village Life label. This neoclassical chamber quartet later transformed into the Brilliant Strings after she and Slany had gone their separate ways.

As a solo recording artist, Pook released several albums for the Virgin // Realworld labels. These included Deluge (1997), Flood (1999) and Untold Things (2003). Her career as a film composer took flight when cuts from her album Flood were used in Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut. The piece Masked Ball, which incorporates a fragment of an Orthodox Liturgy played backwards and lyrics sung (or chanted) in Romanian, underscored the infamous masked ball sequence.

Further scores have subsequently been contributed to several European films, notably the 2004 film version of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Peter Kosminsky's film on David Kelly, The Government Inspector, "Brick Lane" and 2007's Chaotic Ana. Pook was commissioned to write a short opera, Ingerland, for ROH2 (the contemporary producing arm of London's Royal Opera House) which was performed in the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theatre in June 2010.^[1]

Miscellaneous[link]

In 1983 she appeared in the ABC movie Mantrap as one of many string players for the album The Lexicon of Love. Most of her sessions were for Indie bands throughout the 1980s.

Pook frequently works with vocalist Melanie Pappenheim, whom she describes as her long-time musical collaborator, and who does the majority of vocal work on Pook's music.

Career highlights[link]

• 1991 - Viola on "Chaostrophy" on the Coil album Love's Secret Domain.
• 1997 - Blow the Wind: Pie Jesu, used by Orange in TV advertising campaign.
• 1999 - score for the Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut nominated for Golden Globe Award.
• 2001 - wrote score for Laurent Cantet’s film L'Emploi du temps.
• 2002 - Phantasmaton premiered by the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company.
• 2003 - Multimedia Award for Speaking in Tunes at the first British Composer Awards.
• 2004 - wrote score for Michael Radford’s film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.
• 2007 - score for Caótica Ana.
• 2008 - score for Saint Joan at The National Theatre won Olivier Award.
• 2008 - score for PBS Frontline episode Storm Over Everest.
• 2010 - score for Julio Medem's film Habitación en Roma (Room in Rome).

Key works[link]

• Blow the Wind: Pie Jesu (1994; mezzo-soprano, string quartet, tape)
• Portraits in Absentia (1999; answerphonemessage samples, orchestra)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999; film score)
• Saints and Sinners (2000; Persian singer (Parvin Cox), chorus, ensemble)
• L’emploi du temps (2001; film score)
• Speaking in Tunes (2002; string quartet, tape)
• The Merchant of Venice (2004; film score)

Selected recordings[link]

• Deluge - Venture/Virgin/EMI CDVE 933
• Flood - Virgin/EMI 7243 8 48150 2 8/V2-48150
• Untold Things - Real World CDRW93

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Jocelyn Pook's homepage at Chester Music
• Jocelyn Pook at the Internet Movie Database

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Jocelyn Lorette Brown (born November 25, 1950, Kinston, North Carolina, sometimes credited as Jocelyn Shaw) is an American R&B and dance music singer. Although she has only one Billboard Hot 100 chart entry in her name, she has an extensive background in the music industry and is well known in the world of dance music.

Career[link]

Brown started out in the late 1970s singing on records by studio-created bands like Revanche, Musique, Inner Life, Disco Tex and His Sex-O-Lettes, Cerrone, Bad Girls, Chic, and Change^[1], later singing with Salsoul Orchestra, Soiree or Dazzle in 1979.

In 1980, she appeared in Bette Midler's concert movie Divine Madness singing backup as a "Harlette" along with Ula Hedwig and Diva Gray.

In 1984, Brown released a number of singles in her own name, including "Somebody Else's Guy" (later rerecorded in 1997 by CeCe Peniston), which made it #2 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart (#75 on the Hot 100) and became the title track of her first album (a compilation of tracks from her career to date), released that same year.^[1] Although she scored another big Dance (and minor R&B) hit two years later with "Love's Gonna Get You," her solo career never really took off and she continued to sing on other people's records.

She has more than twenty hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, four of which have hit number one (not including two #1 dance hits she had in the late 1970s as a guest vocalist with Patrick Adams' studio band, Musique). She continues to record house music and have chart hits in the 21st century. She toured with Boy George, as a backing vocalist, worldwide with Culture Club in 1985 and appeared on their 1986 album, From Luxury to Heartache. In 1987, she co-wrote with Boy George his top 30 UK hit, "Keep Me In Mind".

Since 1990, she has lived in London. In 1990, the line "I've got the power" was sampled from her 1986 dance hit, Love's Gonna Get You by electronica group Snap! for their worldwide hit, The Power as well as hip hop group Boogie Down Productions on their single "Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love)".

Brown appeared on both seasons of BBC One's celebrity singing talent show Just the Two of Us; first with TV presenter Matt Allwright (placing sixth), then with actor John Bardon from EastEnders (placing fourth). In 2006, Brown released a CD entitled Unreleased. Her cousin, Shaun Gaskins, says "she took it back to what she knows best, real singing. A lot people should take note and watch how a real diva gets down".

In 2007, Brown collaborated with The AllStars both live, at a series of music festivals in the UK, and in the studio recording of their new album, All About the Music. She also sang the United States national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, at Wembley Stadium, for the first ever regular season American football game played on foreign soil. The game was between the New York Giants and the winless Miami Dolphins.

In 2011, she returned to British reality television, appearing in the second series of Pop star to Opera star, but was voted out in week two of the show in the second of two heats after being sent home by the judging panel after being in the bottom two of the public phone vote. Jocelyn sang a 'gypsy song' from the musical 'Carmen', well known for its accomplished arias and performances.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 1984: Somebody Else's Guy
• 1987: One from the Heart
• 1995: Jocelyn's Classic R&B Mastercuts (Japan only, as "Serious featuring Jocelyn Brown")
• 1995: Jocelyn's Classic Reggae Mastercuts (Japan only, as "Serious featuring Jocelyn Brown")
• 2006: Unreleased
• 2006: Circles (Japan only)
• 2010: True Praise

Singles[link]

Below are songs with Jocelyn Brown as featured vocalist (including her solo hits).

See also[link]

• List of Number 1 Dance Hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
• List of disco artists (F-K)
• List of house music artists
• One-hit wonders in the UK

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jocelyn Brown discography at Discogs
• Artist page at Digisoul Records
• MySpace page
• Allmusic entry