Biography

Jocelyne Jocya

1209 North Kings Road #6
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Contact: (323) 650-2829

Jocelyne Jocya, Founder and Chairperson of the FOUNDATION FOR THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN (FDRC), is an internationally renowned recording artist and producer.

Her impressive career began at age seventeen when she won a talent contest at the Olympia Theater in Paris. The prize, a car, was presented by Edith Piaf. From this, she went on to receive personal training as Ms. Piaf's protégée.

Ms. Jocya went on to record in five countries for Vogue, Polydor, and CBS Records, as well as many other well known record companies throughout the world. She has recorded and performed live with luminaries such as Paul Anka, Tom Jones, Neil Sedaka, Miles Davis, Joe Cocker, and more. She has appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The David Frost Show, The Sammy Davis Jr. Telethon, and many others.

As producer, she is renown for her Tribute to Josephine Baker at the Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center, New York; Vive le Music-Hall at the Monte Carlo Sporting Club; and French Feelings and French Dressing at the top of the Village Gate and at Shepheard's Drake Hotel in New York. In Los Angeles, she created the cabaret concept at the Rose Tatoo with great success. She has also been an international award winner; she won the "Coq d'Or de la Chanson Francaise" three times, along with the "Musicorama" award at the Olympia Theater in Paris.

In 1988 Ms. Jocya founded the FDRC, inspired by her vision that every child in the world may enjoy certain fundamental rights protected by caring adults united for that purpose.

Through her Foundation for the Declaration of the Rights of Children, Ms Jocya has been active and instrumental in spreading her vision of protecting the rights of children worldwide through such events as:

· Friends of Sheba Medical Center Tribute to Yitzhak Rabin in Los Angeles that raised $2,000,000.00 for the International Wall of Peace in 1996

· First World Forum for Children's Television in Barcelona in 1997

· The Museum of Television and Radio's Eighth International Children's Television Festival, in cooperation with the United Nation's. International Day for Tolerance, November 1999.

· Pierre Cardin's production of Le Manege to benefit the refugee orphans of Kosovo in May 2000.

For You Children, an original composition by Ms. Jocya, is the theme song for the Foundation. Jocelyne Jocya and Paul Anka have recorded and performed this lovely song for the benefit of children's rights worldwide. Ms. Jocya, who collaborated with Angie Dickinson on the English lyrics, composed the music, and Humberto Gatica produced the recording. World Vision's 1992 annual telethon used For You Children as their theme song.

UNICEF chose this song for their 12 December 1999 International Children's Day of Broadcasting theme .

A breast cancer survivor, Jocelyne Jocya has spent the past twelve years furthering the rights of children worldwide through the work of her foundation and her talents, courage and vision for children.