Role Singer-songwriter Name Chris Brown | Years active 1985–present Origin Virginia, USA | |
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Occupation(s) musician, singer-songwriter Instruments guitar, keyboard instruments, trombone Website www.chrisbrownmusic.com Albums O Witness, Other People's Heavens, Geronimo Similar People Kate Fenner, Rihanna, Paula DeAnda, Stephen Hague | ||
Birth name Hugh Christopher Brown | ||
Hugh Christopher Brown is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Contents
- Career
- Chris Brown
- Chris Brown and the Citizens Band
- Chris Brown and Kate Fenner
- Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
- Contributions to other artists albums
- Compilations
- References
Career
Brown was one of the primary singers and songwriters for the alternative rock band Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s and 1990s. When that band broke up, he continued performing as a duo with his Bourbon bandmate Kate Fenner. Brown has accompanied dozens of notable musicians on stage, including a six-month stint as a member of Barenaked Ladies in 1998 filling in for Kevin Hearn while Hearn battled leukemia.
Brown released a solo album, Burden of Belief, in 2003. He performs this material both solo and with Tony Scherr, Anton Fier, and Teddy Kumpel as Chris Brown and the Citizens' Band. The group's album Oblivion was released in 2007.
Also in 2007, musical contributions from Brown were included on Salamandre, the soundtrack for architectural designer Eric Clough's Mystery on Fifth Avenue apartment renovation project. Along with Fenner, he composed original music: four melodies of inspiration through four centuries of music, including renaissance, classical, Victorian, a Vetentian waltz, jazz, ragtime, blues, folk, and funk.
He is also the founder of Pros and Cons Program bringing recording arts to prisons and creating musical works for charities. The Pros and Cons Program has become internationally recognized as ground breaking in fields of restorative justice and inmate mentorship, with the support of The David Rockefeller Fund.Brown has recently launched Wolfe Island Records as a home for the prison music and the many artists he produces and collaborates with, including Fenner, Suzanne Jarvie, David Corley, One River, The Mermaids, Hadley McCall Thaxton and The Stephen Stanley Band. He is currently at work on his latest project, PACEM.
Chris currently lives in Wolfe Island where he tours solo and performs with local musicians in a band called Open Hearts Society.