Quincy Taylor Brown is an American actor and singer who performs under the mononym Quincy. He starred in the 2015 film Brotherly Love, and released a song "Friends First". More recently, he is a regular on the television musical drama Star. He is the son of the former model Kim Porter and singer, songwriter and record producer Al B. Sure!.
Early life
Quincy Taylor Brown was born in New York City to late model Kimberly Porter and singer Albert Joseph Brown III. He was named after his godfather, music and entertainment icon Quincy Jones. In 1994, when he was three, his mother began a relationship with Sean "Diddy" Combs and Diddy eventually adopted Quincy and raised him as his own. The couple had three more children together, a son, Christian, and twin daughters D'Lila and Jessie. For his 16th birthday, Diddy and Porter threw Quincy a celebrity studded party in Atlanta that was featured on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16. His family moved around often but he spent most of his youth in Georgia and later moved to Los Angeles, California in his final years of high school and completed his education at Calabasas High School. He is most known for acting in a movie called The Holiday Calendar alongside Kat Graham.
Career
In August 2012, Quincy walked in the Gaborone Fashion Weekend event in Botswana. On February 19, 2015, he walked in Naomi Campbell's Ebola awareness show during New York Fashion Week. In June 2015, Quincy made his directorial debut with the music video for singer and actress Elle Winter's songNo Words. On June 23, 2016, Quincy announced that he had signed a record deal with Bad Boy/Epic Records. Quincy Brown starred in the FOX original show titled Star. He played Derek Jones, Carlotta Brown's neighbor and Alexandra's love interest. In 2018, Quincy Brown starred alongside Kat Graham as Josh in a Netflix original film The Holiday Calendar
Business ventures
He is the founder of the production company FourXample. He also has a watch line called Chalk by Quincy, a jeans collection with Embellish and a start-up technology company.
