Jennifer Brown

Life and career Jennifer Brown was the daughter of a Trinidadian father and a Swedish mother with whom she and a brother and sister lived in the Gothenburg suburb of Hjällbo. At a young age Brown pursued her interest in performing – singing, dancing and acting – at a local recreation center and at age fifteen she studied at a music school in Hisingen subsequently performing as a member of the group Soul Miracle. In 1994 Brown relocated to Stockholm to pursue a musical career: after working at a bar she gained employment at the Swedish record label Telegram Records, her initial position as receptionist eventually leading to Brown's being signed to Telegram's recording roster.

Brown's 1994 album Giving You The Best peaked at no 1 in the Swedish charts She has recorded mainly as a solo artist, but also as part of the soul/jazz/pop crew, Blacknuss. Her 1998 single "Tuesday Afternoon", while not her biggest Swedish hit, afforded Brown her most widespread global success charting in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK.

Outside Scandinavia her work is perhaps best known through the cover version of her song "Alive", by Paul van Dyk, which was renamed "We Are Alive" and became a hit across Europe in 2000.

Following the release of her fourth album Home in 2003 Brown largely retired from the music business. She played the adult female lead in the 2006 family film Förortsungar – Kidz in da Hood, She met the father of her daughter Lilly Lou (born 2007) while making the film Förortsungar – Kidz in da Hood in 2006: according to Brown the child's father abandoned Brown three months into her pregnancy. AUS No. 67 In My Garden (1997) – SWE No. 9 Home (2003) – SWE No. 43 "Lovin' Every Minute" (1994) "You Move Me" (1994) "It Should Have Been You" – Blacknuss Featuring Jennifer Brown, Titiyo (1995) "In My Garden" (1997) "When to Hold On" (1997) – SWE No. 13 DNK No. 12 DEU No. 68 FRA No. 46 NLD No. 80 UK No. 57 "Alive" (1999) – SWE No. 34 "Kom Hem Till Mig" (2015) "Faller" (2015) "In I Himlen" (2016) "Break Open" (2022)

Film Kidz in da Hood