Justina Lee Brown

Justina Ogunlolu (born 23 July 1984), known professionally as Justina Lee Brown, is a Nigerian Afro, funk, soul, blues, rock and jazz singer-songwriter. She was the first runner-up in the Nokia First Chance reality singing competition in 2006. Brown won the Swiss Blues Challenge in 2019, made it to the semi-finals of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee (U.S.) in 2020, and won second place for Switzerland at the European Blues Challenge in Malmö, Sweden, in 2022. She was nominated for the Swiss Blues Awards 2022 and was the opening act for Zucchero at the Sierre Blues Festival in Sierre, Switzerland, the same year. In 2024, she won the Swiss Blues Awards, making history as the first African to do so. Early life Justina Lee Brown was born in the streets of Ajegunle neighborhood of , Lagos, Nigeria, to a Yoruba father and an Igbo mother. Her mother had Justina at age seventeen and Justina lived with her mother on the streets of Lagos where her mother sold water sachets in the market. She had a tough start to life and discovered music as a result of being bored. She attended Unity primary school in Ajegunla. While growing up, she was heavily influenced by Anita Bake