Angela Carole Brown

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, including Josh Groban's hit single "You Raise Me Up" on his Closer CD for Warner Bros. Records; and demos for Matt Stone & Trey Parker. She has worked theatre, clubs, concert halls, television, and radio, in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

She is also the author of three published books, The Assassination of Gabriel Champion, The Kidney Journals: Memoirs of a Desperate Lifesaver, and Trading Fours, and is a recipient of the Heritage/Soulword Magazine Award in poetry.

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.

Her most recent releases are the folk Music for the Weeping Woman with guitarist Ken Rosser, the jazz Expressionism with The Slow Club Quartet, and her holiday album Winter, also on Rue de la Harpe Records.

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 eighteen years now, Angela has been "Miss Thing" to select Los Angeles audiences, through the release of three CDs, Air Surréal, It's Alive!, and Manic Voodoo Lady, for which she created the artwork that serves as their covers; a slot on Music Connection's Best Unsigned Acts List, as L.A. Weekly's "Music Pick of the Week" in 2000, and as recipient of a Los Angeles Music Award, in 2003, for their John Anson Ford Amphitheatre debut of Symphony of the Absurd, 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. Show less