Darlene Love (née Wright; born July 26, 1938) is an American popular music singer and actress. She gained prominence in the 1960s for the song "He's a Rebel," a No. 1 American single in 1962, and was one of the Phil Spector artists who produced a celebrated Christmas album in 1963.

Darlene Love grew up in a community that was almost numb to the racial divide, at least in her family. Her father always told her to shoot for the stars and have your voice be as loud as possible. Darlene reflects on her childhood: “we didn’t know we were poor”; she adds, “if we didn’t know we were poor, we didn’t ‘know’ we were black either.”