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Samantha Brown (born 7 October 1964) is an English female singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of musician Joe Brown and session singer Vicki Brown.
Brown's first work in the music industry was in 1978 at age 14, when she sang backing vocals on the album 78 in the Shade by the Small Faces. She soon had worked as vocalist with several other groups, including Spandau Ballet, and with her mother on the 1982 solo album Before I Forget with former Deep Purple keyboarder Jon Lord.
She signed a contract with A&M Records in 1986. Brown's most successful song was "Stop!", released as a single in 1988. She issued an album of the same name that year. Other singles taken from the album included "Walking Back To Me", "This Feeling" and her cover version of "Can I Get a Witness". The album Stop! sold over two and a half million copies worldwide, doing particularly well in the UK and Australia. Brown's second album, April Moon (1990), includes two hit singles, "Kissing Gate" and "With A Little Love". Three further singles were released from the album: "Mindworks", "Once in Your Life", and "As One".
Brown's third album, 43 Minutes, was a dark recording made around the time that her mother was dying from cancer. A&M, Brown's record label at the time was not happy with the album, and wanted some potential hit singles recorded and added to the track list. Brown, not willing to compromise and after a protracted legal battle, bought back the masters of the album and released it on her own label, Pod Music. Few copies were initially released, although it was re-issued in 2004.
As well as her solo career, she has had a successful career as a backing vocalist and collaborating with other artists. She has worked with Barclay James Harvest (1984), David Gilmour (David Gilmour in Concert in 2002), Pink Floyd on their 1994 album, The Division Bell, and accompanied them on tour to promote the release., Deep Purple (Live at the Royal Albert Hall), Jon Lord, The Firm, Gary Moore, George Harrison and Nick Cave. She has often appeared as a member of Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, and achieved further prominence with her 2002 performance at the Concert for George, singing "Horse to the Water", but this song is only included in the film of the concert, not in the CD. In 2002, she was a backing vocalist at Buckingham Palace at the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II's concert, Party at the Palace.
Brown is an accomplished ukulele player and runs the International Ukulele Club of Sonning Common, the North London Ukulele Collective and the People's Ukulele Brigade (PUB). Brown is also a patron of Tech Music Schools in London, made up of Vocaltech, Guitar-X, Keyboardtech and Drumtech. Brown is also currently teaching backing vocals classes at the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Guildford, Surrey, a school for rock and pop musicians. Brown has two children, Vicki (1993), and Mohan (1995), with her ex-husband, producer and musician Robin Evans.
Brown's first work in the music industry was in 1978 at age 14, when she sang backing vocals on the album 78 in the Shade by the Small Faces. She soon had worked as vocalist with several other groups, including Spandau Ballet, and with her mother on the 1982 solo album Before I Forget with former Deep Purple keyboarder Jon Lord.
She signed a contract with A&M Records in 1986. Brown's most successful song was "Stop!", released as a single in 1988. She issued an album of the same name that year. Other singles taken from the album included "Walking Back To Me", "This Feeling" and her cover version of "Can I Get a Witness". The album Stop! sold over two and a half million copies worldwide, doing particularly well in the UK and Australia. Brown's second album, April Moon (1990), includes two hit singles, "Kissing Gate" and "With A Little Love". Three further singles were released from the album: "Mindworks", "Once in Your Life", and "As One".
Brown's third album, 43 Minutes, was a dark recording made around the time that her mother was dying from cancer. A&M, Brown's record label at the time was not happy with the album, and wanted some potential hit singles recorded and added to the track list. Brown, not willing to compromise and after a protracted legal battle, bought back the masters of the album and released it on her own label, Pod Music. Few copies were initially released, although it was re-issued in 2004.
As well as her solo career, she has had a successful career as a backing vocalist and collaborating with other artists. She has worked with Barclay James Harvest (1984), David Gilmour (David Gilmour in Concert in 2002), Pink Floyd on their 1994 album, The Division Bell, and accompanied them on tour to promote the release., Deep Purple (Live at the Royal Albert Hall), Jon Lord, The Firm, Gary Moore, George Harrison and Nick Cave. She has often appeared as a member of Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, and achieved further prominence with her 2002 performance at the Concert for George, singing "Horse to the Water", but this song is only included in the film of the concert, not in the CD. In 2002, she was a backing vocalist at Buckingham Palace at the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II's concert, Party at the Palace.
Brown is an accomplished ukulele player and runs the International Ukulele Club of Sonning Common, the North London Ukulele Collective and the People's Ukulele Brigade (PUB). Brown is also a patron of Tech Music Schools in London, made up of Vocaltech, Guitar-X, Keyboardtech and Drumtech. Brown is also currently teaching backing vocals classes at the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Guildford, Surrey, a school for rock and pop musicians. Brown has two children, Vicki (1993), and Mohan (1995), with her ex-husband, producer and musician Robin Evans.