Steven Brown(VI)
- Composer
- Actor
- Director
Born in Chicago, but as of 2010 living in Mexico (near Oaxaca), Steven
Brown is a world traveler who has been living in Europe for more than
ten years. In 1970, he won an award in NY for best amateur super 8 film
for his version of "Frankenstein," but he's mostly known as a
multi-instrumentist (with a preference for saxophone, piano and
clarinet) musician who founded, with Blaine L. Reininger, the San
Francisco avant-garde musical group named "Tuxedomoon", that moved to
Europe in the early eighties, where it soon established its base in
Brussels before dispersing around the world in the nineties (Brown
relocating in Mexico). Steven Brown is also an actor, both in film and
theater(for instance in "Zoo story", a play from Hal Ashby, Brussels,
1983 or, more recently, in the film "Salon Mexico" from Jose Luis
Garcia Agraz, 1996). He is still active as an actor, writer ("Stories
from Mexico", published at Rowhouse Press, 2001), musician (solo work,
Tuxedomoon and Nine Rain). In 2010, Steven Brown was nominated for an
Ariel(IE the Mexican equivalent of an Oscar) for the original music he
composed for "El Informe Toledo", Albino Alvarez's documentary centered
on Oaxaca artist Francisco Toledo.
