|
Los Angeles native Angela Carole Brown has
been a veteran of the L.A. music scene for over two decades as a vocalist,
recording artist, and songwriter. She has recorded voice-overs, movie cues,
jingles, and CDs for herself and other artists, among them Josh Groban's hit
single "You Raise Me Up" on his Closer CD for Warner Bros. Records; for South
Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker; and for the independent film Funny
Money, starring Chevy Chase. She has worked theatre, clubs, concert halls,
television, and radio, in the U.S. , Europe, and Asia.
She is also a novelist, who has
thus far brought us her debut novel, TRADING FOURS, on Infinity
Publishing; about which she has been interviewed on KPFK's Arts in
Review and KUCI's Blacklisted; favorably reviewed by Ontario author
and book reviewer Matt St. Amand; given honorable mention in Music
Connection Magazine and by the National League of Women as an
example of Women in Fiction; and featured in an Ejazznews.com
article entitled Jazz Encounters of the Literary Kind, by John
Stevenson.
Angela has released two very
different music projects on the independent label Rue de la Harpe
Records: With her group The Global Folk (and the scaled-down duo
version with guitarist Ken Rosser), she has released the Post-Modern
Folk Experimentation, Resting on the Rock, which utilizes
instruments from around the world, and which held onto #5 on
American Idol Underground for nine weeks; as well as their most
recent Music for the Weeping Woman. And with her group The Slow
Club Quartet, she has released the aforementioned jazz recording,
The Slow Club, which was nominated for a Just Plain Folks Music
Award, and their most recent release Expressionism.
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 Los Angeles.
In 1989, her debut CD, Angela,
produced by David Garfield for Teichiku Records, rose to #2 on Japan
’s pop charts, leading her to be featured on Tokyo 's NHK variety
television show Music Dream Collection.
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.
In 1996, she created the role of
larger-than-life vixen The Fabulous Miss Thing (a cross between
RuPaul and Norma Desmond) for the exquisitely radical, a wild,
genre-bending orchestral show that deconstructs classic rock songs
with the wit of Spike Jones and the complexities of Frank Zappa, and
featuring the wackiest wacky-savant orchestra of twenty-seven
musicians in musical history! Her involvement with the orchestra
has included work as performer, contributing writer, and art
director (*take note Angela's animated original art work, at the
start of the OS site).
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 serve 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 recently
rejoined The Orchestre Surréal, after a six-year hiatus, for the
release of their newest CD, Manic Voodoo Lady - a Tribute to the
music of Hendrix, which she also designed.
Angela has had the honor to
perform with/for David Foster, Keb Mo, Mindi Abair, Ricky Martin,
Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Keith Emerson (of Emerson, Lake & Palmer),
Heatwave, Rita Coolidge, Danny Seraphine, Marilyn McCoo & Billy
Davis Jr., Billy Childs, Linda Hopkins, Freda Payne, Trini Lopez,
Roy Clark, Al Wilson, Linda Taylor of Threshold and Whose Line Is
It, Anyway? and Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul, & Mary).
Check out our band information on your
top right
For booking information and pricing, call Mark Wood Entertainment
in Southern California at
949.748.6850 |
|
