Sam Brown is a famous singer, whose most famous hit is the song Stop. A stunningly beautiful woman who always preferred self-expression to writing hits. Let us learn more about her, her work and dramatic fate.
Biography: The Beginning
Sam Brown was born on October 7, 1964 in the UK in a creative family. My father was a famous guitarist and concurrently the owner of a recording studio, and his mother was a popular backing vocalist. From childhood, Sam Brown was surrounded by talented and popular people. Even vocalist Pink Floyd was in their house. At age 14, Sam Brown's first song, Window People, appeared. The young girl did not even imagine that in the future this composition would become known to millions of people around the world. The future star did not have a clear idea of her possible career, but nevertheless, her first stage experience was as a backing vocalist of the famous group Small Faces.
First steps and popularity
At 17, Sam Brown decides to move to London. According to the singer, she did not want her parents to help her. Despite the fact that the family had its own studio, the girl recorded the first album with the money that she managed to accumulate as a backing vocalist. Among those who helped her record her first album were Robbie Mackintosh, Pretenders guitarist, and Wicks, who played keyboards for Paul McCartney. Future famous singer Sam Brown asked the family to nominate her brother Pete as the album producer. And, despite the fact that the girl was never very close with her brother, the work went to "excellent".
In 1988, her first album, Stop! He won first places in the charts of the Netherlands and Germany. A year later, the song of the same name gained extraordinary popularity in England. In the national hit parade, the song and album Stop! climbed to fourth place. The total number of copies sold was two million.
It’s not easy to be yourself
Sam Brown's second album, April Moon, was released in 1990. With A Little Love and Kissing Gate hits showed how much Sam has grown as a singer. Unlike her colleagues, the singer did not like herself in music, but the music in herself - she did not like to maintain the status of a star. At first, this helped her in her work, and subsequently created certain difficulties with producers and record companies.
The next album was called 43 Minutes. This is a rather gloomy work, which the singer wrote during her mother’s severe illness. The A&M Records label, under which the artist released albums at that time, was not happy with the singer’s mood and insisted on writing several potential hits, but Sam bought the master discs and recorded the album as she wanted through her own label. In 2004, the album was reissued, but still it is quite difficult to find.
Life goes on
In 1997, the singer released the album Box under her own label. The recording was attended by Maria Mackey. In 2000, Sam again delights fans with the ReBoot album. Brown managed not only to record her own albums, but also to make a career as a backing vocalist. She managed to work with such teams as Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and many others. In 2002, at a memorable concert by George Harrison, she performed his last song Horse on the water. This performance can only be seen in the Concert for George biography. A year later, she began working with the Homespun team, which was organized by Dave Rover from the band The Beautiful South. In December 2006, the singer went on a UK tour as a special guest on a program that her father produced. In 2007, the light saw her new album Of The Moment. In the fall of the same year, she managed to return to the top of the British chart with the single Valentine Moon. He entered one of Jules Holland's albums. Brown patronizes the London School of Music Tech Music School. The singer visited Russia in 1997 and 2008, during her world tour.
Unfortunately, in 2008, the singer lost her voice and ended her singing career.