Hugh Christopher Brown is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Early life

Brown was raised in Canada.

Career

Brown was one of the primary singers and songwriters for the

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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

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in 1998 filling in for Kevin Hearn while Hearn battled

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. Brown released a solo album, ''Burden of Belief'', in 2003. He performs this material both solo and with Tony Scherr,

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, 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 Venetian waltz, jazz, ragtime, blues, folk, and funk. He is also a social justice activist and the founder of the 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 groundbreaking in fields of restorative justice and inmate mentorship, with the support of The David Rockefeller Fund. Brown recorded an album with the prisoners called ''Postcards from the County'' which Exclaim! described as "inescapably honest and sincere". Brown has recently launched Wolfe Island Records as a home for the prison music and the many artists he produces and collaborates with Kate Fenner, Suzanne Jarvie, David Corley, One River, The Mermaids, Hadley McCall Thackston and the Stephen Stanley Band. In 2017 he released a new solo album ''Pacem''. ''PopMatters'' premiered his first single, "Keeper of the Flame", and ''Huffington Post'' raved that "Pacem is one of those albums that works on the listener from the inside out." Brown currently releases music on Wolfe Island where he tours solo and performs with local musicians in the band Open Hearts Society.

Discography

Hugh Christopher Brown ''Pacem'' - 2017

Chris Brown

* ''Burden of Belief'' – 2003

Chris Brown and the Citizens' Band

* ''Oblivion'' – 2007

Chris Brown and Kate Fenner

* ''Other People's Heavens'' – 1997 * ''Geronimo'' – 1999 * ''Great Lakes Bootleg'' – 2000 * ''O Witness'' – 2001 * ''Songs'' – 2003 * ''Go On'' – 2004

Bourbon Tabernacle Choir

* ''First Taste of Bourbon'' – 1987 * ''If Hell Had a Houseband'' – 1989 * ''Sister Anthony'' – 1990 * ''Superior Cackling Hen'' – 1992 * ''Shy Folk'' – 1995 * ''Simply the Best 1985–1995'' – 2000

Contributions to other artists' albums

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– '' Out of Range'' * Ashley MacIsaac – '' Hi™ How Are You Today?'' *

– '' Gordon'', '' Born on a Pirate Ship'' * Big Sugar – '' Five Hundred Pounds'' * Crash Test Dummies – ''

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'', '' Jingle All the Way'', '' Puss 'n' Boots'', '' Songs of the Unforgiven'' * Christian Doscher – ''Go Where You're Loved'' * DJ Logic – ''The Zen of Logic'' * Hadley McCall Thackston - ''Hadley McCall Thackston'' * Hermine Deurloo – ''Crazy Clock'' * Jason Collett – '' Idols of Exile'' * Rosanna Goodman – '' My Old Man'' ("Yellow Coat" and, with Kate Fenner, "The Ballad of Penny Evans") *

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and the Ferdinandos – ''The Secret Sun'' * Kate Fenner – ''Horses and Burning Cars'' * Teddy Kumpel – ''Songs in Tomato Sauce'' * Luther Wright and the Wrongs – '' Rebuild the Wall'', ''Guitar Pickin' Martyrs'' * Natasha Alexandra (NLX) – ''Behind Your Back'' * One River (Michael Quattrone) – ''One River'' (co-producer, musician)Wolfe Island Records, "One River"
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– '' Music @ Work'' * Tom Jones – ''Burning Down The House'' * Tony Scherr – ''Come Around'', ''Twist in the Wind'' * Rod Alonzo – ''Cyclists'' (co-producer, arranger, keyboards)

Compilations

* '' GASCD'' * ''We Want Peace On Earth'' * ''Bridge to Music – Indie Sounds From Brooklyn's Underground'' * ''My Old Man: A Tribute to

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References

External links

Chris Brown
s official website
Wolfe Island Records
official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Chris Living people Canadian male singer-songwriters Canadian rock singers Canadian folk singer-songwriters Singers from Toronto Year of birth missing (living people) Barenaked Ladies members