Carleen Anderson is an American soul singer who has had success in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of the singer
Vicki Anderson and step-daughter of
Bobby Byrd, and cousin of Jhelisa and was most well know as the lead singer in the Young Disciples as well as for her own solo career. Anderson was raised by her paternal grandparents in Houston, Texas during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Her mother was Vicki Anderson, a soul singer who was the featured singer with
James Brown during the 1960s and 1970s, and Brown is Anderson's godfather. Anderson briefly married …
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