Jennifer Brown

Jennifer Brown, 2016

Jennifer Vera Brown (born February 18, 1972 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish soul and pop singer .

biography

In the mid-1990s, Brown moved from Gothenburg to Stockholm to begin her career as a singer. At the beginning of 1994 her debut album Giving You the Best was released by BMG. The sound was typical of the early 1990s. This album achieved gold status in Sweden and includes a duet with Lenny Kravitz . In the spring of 1997, In My Garden , the second album, was released. The songs In My Garden and Adore were extracted from this.

At the end of 1998 the album Vera followed , which was able to place in Austria in the charts. The record is named after Brown's middle name and offers a sound that is geared towards an acoustic guitar and is therefore very different from its predecessors. Brown co-wrote all of the songs on the record. Produced by the successful producer Billy Mann , Vera sold so often in Sweden that she received gold status there and Jennifer Brown was nominated for the Swedish Grammy for best artist of the year. With the single Tuesday Afternoon , she gained international attention. The second single, Alive , was best known in Germany through a remix by DJ Paul van Dyk under the name We Are Alive . Tuesday Afternoon and Naked , both from the Vera album , were used in the television series G String Divas .

In the spring of 2003, Brown published her fourth album Home , from which the single Weak was decoupled. The record did not go on sale in Germany. In 2009 Brown took part in the Melodifestivalen , the Swedish pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest . However, she was eliminated in the second preliminary round and finished seventh with her title Never Been Here Before .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	UK	SE
1994	Giving you the best	-	-	-	SE1 gold (22 weeks)SE	First published: January 1994
1997	In My Garden	-	-	-	SE9 (18 weeks) SE	First published: April 1997
1998	Vera	-	AT31 (6 weeks) AT	-	SE8th gold (21 weeks)SE	First published: October 1998
2003	Home	-	-	-	SE43 (3 weeks) SE	First published: April 2003

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	UK	SE	Dance
1993	Heaven Come Down Giving You the Best	-	-	-	SE21 (8 weeks) SE	-	First published: November 1993
1995	It Should Have Been You Made in Sweden	DE80 (10 weeks) DE	-	UK83 (1 week) UK	-	-	First release: May 1995 Blacknuss feat. Titiyo and Jennifer Brown
1997	When to Hold On In My Garden	-	-	-	SE13 (14 weeks) SE	-	First published: March 1997
1998	Tuesday Afternoon Vera	DE68 (9 weeks) DE	AT17 (8 weeks) AT	UK57 (2 weeks) UK	SE27 (9 weeks) SE	-	First published: September 1998
1999	Alive Vera	-	-	-	SE34 (5 weeks) SE	Dance47 (4 weeks) Dance	First published: January 1999
2003	Weak Home	-	-	-	SE44 (5 weeks) SE	-	First published: April 9, 2003
2009	Bloom in November (EP)	-	-	-	SE39 (1 week) SE	-	First published: November 4, 2009

More singles

• 1988: To Be Where You Are
• 1990: Run from Me (OP feat. Jennifer)
• 1994: My Everything (released January)
• 1994: Take a Piece of My Heart (release: April)
• 1994: You Move Me (released May)
• 1994: Lovin 'Every Minute
• 1997: In My Garden
• 1999: Two in the Morning (release: April)
• 1999: Paper Crown
• 2003: Go Your Own Way (release: July)
• 2009: Never Been Here Before (release: February)
• 2009: Mr. Running Man (release: October)

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Singles Albums DE UK1 UK2 SE US
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gold / Platinum Database SE1 ( Memento from May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) SE2 ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• official homepage
• Jennifer Brown at Allmusic (English)
• Jennifer Brown at Discogs (English)