Inga Fung Marchand , born September 6, 1979 (a 2006 police report cited her birth year as 1978 ), better known as Foxy Brown, is an American rapper known for her solo work as well and numerous collaborations with other artists, and her brief stint as part of hip-hop music group The Firm. Born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York of mixed Afro-Trinidadian and Asian descent She has released three solo albums, Ill Na Na in 1996, followed by Chyna Doll in 1999, and Broken Silence in 2001. She performed also in the 1997 self-titled album by the Firm, the only album to be released by that group to date.
After 2002, she continued recording verses for herself and other artists but did not release any albums. In April 2003, she announced on the Wendy Williams radio program on radio station WBLS that she would leave Def Jam Recordings, thus leaving her album Ill Na Na 2 unreleased; it was initially to be released in May 2003. However, she returned to the label in January 2005 after Jay-Z signed her back to begin work on her new album Black Roses. In December 2005, she began suffering from hearing loss, which put her career on hiatus until the next summer, a few months after surgery.
In August 2007, she was signed to Koch Records.
Vocalist Foxy Brown was born in Jamaica as Jenniffer Esmerelda Hylton. Her first introduction to the reggae charts were via the Steely & Clevie-produced versions of 'Fast Car' and '(Sorry) Baby Can I Hold You Tonight', the latter even entering Billboard's Black Singles Chart. She has also made a hit together with Johnny P called 'If you Love Me'. As reported in the Magazine "Entretainment" of November 2007, now she is in jail after attacking a shop employee and striking a police officier in Miami.
