Dee D Jackson, real name Deirdre Elaine Cozier, Born in Oxford, England in 1954. Her Father Roy was a Jazz Pianist and her mother Gloria a chorus girl, dancer and singer, Dee is the the eldest of six children. She was very young when she started playing musical instruments, like the violin and piano, and taking classical dance lessons, but it wasn't until she began middle school that her real talent came to light. It was her music teacher that started to nurture her talent