
Who Is Davy Brown?
"Failure is the path to success"
Born and raised in Southern California, Davy Brown is an internationally acclaimed multi-genre record producer, recording artist, singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer, mixing engineer, mastering engineer, graphic designer, film editor, and music educator. He plays drums, percussion, auxiliary percussion, bass, piano, guitar, and is a classically trained pianist.
Initially a natural born drummer and vocalist (most of which taught by his father, a professional multi-instrumentalist himself), Davy began playing piano and composing original music at age 5. Soon after, he began private lessons until the age of 14. While studying piano, he also took up playing bass, guitar, and other miscellaneous brass and wind instruments. With a deep yearning to apply his advanced theoretical knowledge of rhythm, composition, and extended harmony; Davy joined a top competitive level Jazz orchestra that fiercely competed to become 1st place champions at the world renowned annual Reno Jazz Festival in Nevada. Feeling accomplished as a seasoned Jazz musician, Davy searched to further expand his sonic adventures by quickly joining a Latin Jazz orchestra as well. However, due to his father’s music, Davy was no stranger to the world of Latin Jazz.
Davy grew up in a family of musicians with access to a full array of instruments lying around the house. The opportunity to express himself was a never ending journey conveniently placed at his fingertips. His father, a world class Latin jazz musician and vocalist, played drums, congas, timbales, auxiliary percussion, harmonica, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass, guitar, and piano, just to name a few. Davy also grew up with his older brother, publicly known as “Triple Tree”, also a multi-instrumentalist, open format DJ, producer, singer, songwriter, recording artist, and political scientist. The house was well known within the community as being the “jam house”, where musicians all throughout Southern California would come together and play various forms of music spanning across the sonic spectrum.
Davy used this opportunity to quickly grow as a musician at a very early age by learning how to play with many professional adult musicians of all styles, as him and his older brother were generally the only kids participating. From this experience, grew the inspiration to not only start and join bands of his own, but also the motivation to learn how to record the music he was playing. Enter, the studio years…
It wasn’t long before Davy not only began recording and producing original music of his own, but started working as a session musician and songwriter at local studios for other artists, and producers as well. Through his studio sessions, he eventually met and collaborated with many different people, most notably, ZupaNova. His music with ZupaNova as a band and production team, was eventually heard by top industry executives, A-list artists, and a handful of celebrities in the entertainment industry. This recognition catapulted Davy’s reputation which lead to many other opportunities and gave him the keys to an unlimited future.
Eventually, through various sources and years of jamming with a plethora of fellow studio musicians; Davy meticulously began to construct a weekend all-star studio musician jam band who ultimately became the official backing members for Davy Brown Sound. Forming a group with such a significant amount of raw talent, all coming from a multitude of different genres, finally gave him a setting where he could take advantage of his versatility and combine a plethora of styles into a hybrid collection of sound. Thus, the birth and rise of Davy Brown Sound, though originated in the studio, had finally hit the stage!