Biography
With a “strong yet vulnerable” set of songs drawing mentions to The Sundays, Patty Griffin and Ricky Lee Jones, Brooklyn songwriter Brooke Fox’s effortless vocals and direct lyrics draw a decidedly optimistic reality of relationships and human response. Her second self-produced record, “BREATHE THE SAME AIR” released July 2005, was a best seller on CDBaby and recently took home third place for Female Singer/Songwriter Album at the 2006 Just Plain Folks Music Awards.
On first glance, the strikingly pale Fox, glowing under the stage lights, is simply fair-skinned but her lilywhite features are actually albinism, a rare genetic trait that also causes legal blindness and sensitivity to light. Brooke has spoken to schools and community groups about albinism and made major press appearances (Fox News, CNN, KROQ) on behalf of NOAH (The National Organization of Albinism and Hypopigmentation) to raise awareness in the face of the motion picture release of The Da Vinci Code which marks the 68th “Evil Albino” character to appear in cinema since 1960.
Remarkably, little 5-year-old Brooke seemed to thrive in the bright flood of the spotlight, performing through her childhood years in Northern California. Fox’s obsession with song craft was founded early. She began creating her own music in front of the Fox family piano at the age of eight and went on to earn her Bachelor’s Degree in Songwriting at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. She then relocated to Nashville after graduation and recorded her first album “NightLight” in 1999 before heading to New York in 2000.
NYC VENUES PLAYED:
Knitting Factory, Cutting Room, Living Room, Bitter End, BMI Acoustic Roundup, NY Songwriters Circle ASCAP Pop Song workshop
“A bell-like voice and powerful arrangements. Contemporary Folk at its best!” – Tom May, River City Folk (NPR)
MAJOR CITIES PLAYED:
NY, LA, Boston, San Francisco, Nashville, Chicago, Sacramento, Atlanta, Seattle, Toronto, Philadelphia, Madison.
24 States & 4 Countries so far.
COLLEGE SHOWS:
UConn, Boston University, Franklin & Marshall, Goucher, Simon’s Rock, St. Cloud State, College of NJ, Stevens Inst. of Technology.
CONFERENCES / FESTIVALS:
2NMC, MMC, ROCKRGRL, MECA, NXNE, Dewey Beach Fest.
“A Crystal clear voice, poetic grace and a maturity that runs deep in talent”.
-Richard Cuccaro, Acoustic Live
RADIO / TV APPEARANCES:
FoxNews, CNN, Fox5-NY, Entertainment Tonight: The Insider, NY1, NPR, XM, KROQ, River City Folk with Tom May, RadioCrystalBlue, WRPS, Buzz/102.9: Nashville, WMTS, The Medium
AWARDS:
06' Just Plain Folks Award: #3 "Female Singer / Songwriter Album", CDBABY #53 Best Seller: 8/05, ‘04-‘05-'06 ASCAPlus Award, ‘04 Great American Song Contest: Honor Award, ‘04 Just Plain Folks Award: “Best Vocal Jazz Song”, ‘03 Billboard Song Contest: Honorable Mention (two songs), Lilith Fair Acoustic Talent Search: Nashville Finalist, Berklee Songwriting Achievement Award.
"This young woman is a poet on fire" - Laurel Boland of Sensored Magazine.
SHARED THE STAGE WITH:
Vienna Teng, Mindy Smith, Richard Julian, Regina Spektor.
DISABILITY ADVOCACY:
UN Disability Convention at NYC City Hall, US Dept. of the Treasury: Disability Day, Enable America: Community Meeting, Nat’l Fed of the Blind: Nat'l Convention, Nat’l Org of Albinism (NOAH), CA Youth Leadership Forum, ADA: 10th, 15th Anniversary.
Instrumentation
SOLO SHOW:
BROOKE FOX: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Piano
DUO SHOW:
BROOKE FOX: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Piano
KURT GELLERSTED: Electric Guitar and BGVocals
FULL BAND SHOW:
BROOKE FOX: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Piano
KURT GELLERSTED: Electric Guitar and BGVocals
JEREMY BLETTERMAN: Bass
ANDREW POTENZA: Drums
Discography
"BREATHE THE SAME AIR", 10-song CD. Released July 2005. Available at www.CDBaby.com/BrookeFox2 and itunes.
'NIGHTLIGHT", 11-song CD, Releaed June 1999. Second pressing 2002. Available at www.CDBaby.com/brookefox and itunes.
Links
| http://www.BrookeFox.com |