Maxine Brown (actor)
Maxine Brown may refer to: *Maxine Brown (country singer) (1931–2019), American country singer * Maxine Brown (soul singer) (born 1939), American soul singer *Maxine D. Brown Maxine D. Brown is an American computer scientist and retired director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Along with Tom DeFanti and Bruce McCormick, she co-edited the 1987 NSF repor ...

Maxine Brown (country Singer)
Ella Maxine Brown (April 27, 1931 – January 21, 2019) was an American country music singer who was originally a member of the successful 1950s trio the Browns, before a brief solo career. Biography Brown was born in Campti, Louisiana, to Floyd Brown and Birdie Lee Tuberville Brown. While she was still a toddler, her family moved to a farm near Sparkman, Arkansas. Encouraged by her parents, she began singing and performing at local venues. Brown signed a recording contract in 1954 with RCA Victor as half of a duo with younger brother Jim Ed Brown. Their humorous song "Looking Back to See" was a #8 hit during the summer of 1954. In 1955, they toured with the then 20-year-old Elvis Presley as their younger sister Bonnie Brown joined Maxine and Jim Ed to create the trio group, the Browns. During this period, the group (both prior to and after Bonnie's joining) performed regularly on the Louisiana Hayride, which was a local option for getting their music and group sound out to ...
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Maxine Brown (soul Singer)
Maxine Ella Brown (born August 18, 1939) is an American soul and R&B singer. Background and career Maxine Brown began singing as a child, performing with two New York City based gospel groups called the Angelairs and the Royaltones when she was a teenager. In 1960, she signed with the small Nomar record label, who released the deep soul ballad "All in My Mind" (which was written by Brown) late in the year. The single became a hit, climbing to number two on the US ''Billboard'' R&B chart (number 19 pop), and it was quickly followed by "Funny",Larkin C, ''Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music'', (Muze UK Ltd, 1997), p. 79 which peaked at number three. Brown was poised to become a star and she moved to the bigger ABC-Paramount in 1962, but left the label after an unsuccessful year and recording several non-chart singles for the label, and signed to the New York-based uptown soul label, Wand Records, a Scepter Records subsidiary, in 1963. Brown recorded a string of sizable hits ...
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