Dee D. Jackson (born Deirdre Elaine Cozier, 15 July 1954, Oxford, England) is an English singer and musician who was primarily associated with the space disco genre.
Deirdre Elaine Cozier was born on 15 July 1954[1] in Oxford, England, and lived there with her father Roy (a pianist), her mother Gloria (a former chorus girl, dancer and singer) and five younger siblings until her early 20s.
[3] Cozier took classical dance lessons and learned from an early age to play the violin and piano;[2] she noted that "music lived in [her] house" as a child.
[4] After she "began [her] search for him", Cozier left the United Kingdom for Germany with only the clothes on her back and the little money in her pocket; she never saw the man again.
[2][3][4] It was at this time that she began work on the space disco concept album Cosmic Curves (1978) in the recording studio; the launch of the album was preceded by the release of its lead single, "Automatic Lover" (1977), which became her greatest critical and commercial success[4][5][6] and sold an estimated six to eight million copies across Europe,[2][7] including peaking at No.