Joan was born in Savanna-la-mar, Westmoreland.  After completing her education at Mannings High School, she went from working with the Cultural Office in her parish into the Banking industry where she excelled for four years. Another four years was spent with the Sandals group. It was during this period, she took time out to further improve her vocal talent at the Clarice Crawford School of Music.

Like most of our great singers, Joan started singing on the church choir; from there she decided to venture out onto bigger stages. Her big break came when she won the Miss Westmoreland title in 1985, she was surely a crowd favourite --and was second runner up in the finals of the prestigious Miss Jamaica Festival Queen contest.  It was during that period that her talent was seen by a wider national audience This gave her the adage to grace the stage with some of the names in the Jamaican music industry, like Marcia Griffiths, Judy Mowatt, Richie Stephens, Ken Boothe, Leroy Sibbles, Wayne Hammond, Beres Hammond, Fab Five and a whole lot more (too many to mention).
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