Darrell Brown | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Darrell Brown |
Genres | Pop Music, Country music |
Occupation(s) | Songwriter, Producer, Arranger |
Instruments | piano |
Associated acts |
Keith Urban LeAnn Rimes Bon Jovi Faith Hill Radney Foster Neil Young |
Darrell Brown is an American songwriter, arranger, manager and record producer who has collaborated with recording artists and contributed music to the film and television industries. Brown maintains residences in both Los Angeles, United States (US), and Nashville, US.
Brown has been credited with worldwide music sales of over seventy two million units, as both a songwriter and producer, and, as of June 2012,
Brown co-wrote the number 1 hit "You'll Think of Me” by Keith Urban, which won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2006. Brown also co-wrote Urban's smash hit "Raining on Sunday".
Brown's co-written the hit single for Josh Turner, "Why Don't We Just Dance", was Number #1 on the Billboard Country Charts for four weeks in a row. The longest running number 1 single of Josh Turner's career and Turner's first Number 1 single on the Canadian Country Charts. "Why Don't We Just Dance" was the Most Played Country Single of The Year in 2010 according to Mediabase.
John Mayer and Keith Urban recently performed one of Darrell's songs "If Ever I Could Love” on a newly filmed Country Music Television (CMT) Crossroads Television Special for CMT and Brown's songs "Good Friend and a Glass of Wine” and "Nothin' Better to Do” were performed by Joss Stone and LeAnn Rimes on last Year's Crossroad's CMT Special.
Brown co-arranged and worked on Neil Young latest release "Earth". As well as on Neil Young and Crazy Horse 2012 release, Americana, and arranged and conducted a one hundred-voice choir on Neil Young's Living with War; Brown also worked on Young's Chrome Dreams 2 album.