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Angela Carole Brown

Vocalist and songwriter Angela Carole Brown has been on the music scene for two decades with her folk and jazz projects.

About Me

Los Angeles native Angela Carole Brown has been a veteran of the L.A. music scene for two decades as a vocalist, recording artist, and songwriter. She has recorded voice-overs, movie cues, jingles, and CDs for herself and other artists, her most recent being Josh Groban's hit single “You Raise Me Up” on his Closer CD for Warner Bros. Records; for the independent film Funny Money, starring Chevy Chase; and for the political documentary Running with Arnold. She has worked theatre, clubs, concert halls, television, and radio, in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She is also a writer and an award-winning poet (Heritage Magazine Award), who last year brought us her debut novel, TRADING FOURS, on Infinity Publishing, and about which she was interviewed on KPFK's Arts in Review with Julio Martinez, and given an honorable mention in Music Connection Magazine. Four years ago, Angela released two very different albums of original music on her own Rue de la Harpe Records label: A modern folk experimentation, utilizing instruments from around the world, entitled Resting on the Rock; and her acclaimed jazz recording, The Slow Club. This year she releases the folk MUSIC FOR THE WEEPING WOMAN with guitarist Ken Rosser and the jazz EXPRESSIONISM with The Slow Club Quartet. Angela began her career, however, as an actress, after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and landing work with various Los Angeles theatre companies, performing the repertoires of Shakespeare, Williams, Brecht, Shaw, and Puccini, to name a few. Her singing career began by joining various bar bands; and in 1984, won the grand prize in the first-ever (to become annual) Stardom Pursuit singing contest sponsored by the old legendary Rose Tattoo Cabaret. In 1989, her debut CD, Angela, on Teichiku Records, Japan, rose to #2 on Japan’s pop charts. In 1994, she authored, composed, and starred Off-Broadway in her critically lauded one-woman show, The Purple Sleep Café, at Primary Stages' 45th Street Theatre in New York City. In 1995, she released a CD of jazz standards, Standard Procedure, on Sand Canyon Records, with pianist Dana Bronson and bassist Jim DeJulio, longtime collaborators with her from the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. And in 1996, she created the role of larger-than-life vixen The Fabulous Miss Thing for the exquisitely radical Elvis Schoenberg's Orchestre Surréal, a wild, genre-bending orchestral show. Her involvement with the orchestra included work as performer, contributing writer, and art designer. For seven years, Angela was “Miss Thing” to select Los Angeles audiences, through the release of two CDs, Air Surréal, and It's Alive!, for which she created the artwork that serves as their covers; a slot on Music Connection's Best Unsigned Acts List, and as L.A. Weekly's “Music Pick of the Week” in 2000. Her final performance with the orchestra, in 2003, was their John Anson Ford Amphitheatre debut, a show that ended up winning the L.A. Music Award for “Best Rock Opera of the Year.” Angela has had the honor to sing with/for Linda Hopkins, Ricky Martin, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., David Foster, Billy Childs, Keb Mo, Freda Payne, Rita Coolidge, Trini Lopez, Roy Clark, Heatwave, Al Wilson, and Peter Yarrow. Today, however, Angela speaks to us most uniquely through her newest canon of original songs, and as a woman of letters.