Velma Jean Terrell (born November 26, 1944 in Belzoni, Mississippi) is an American R&B and jazz singer. She replaced Diana Ross as the lead singer of The Supremes in January 1970.\n', '

She is the sister of the former WBA heavyweight boxing champion, Ernie Terrell, who fought Muhammad Ali.\n', '

Moving from Belzoni, Mississippi to Chicago for a better life at an early age, Jean Terrell was guided by her family to sing, and it was in the late 1960s that she and her brother formed a group called Ernie Terrell and the Heavyweights.[citation needed]\n', '

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