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*** Please check out the video "Amanda's Message" on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZptRxajL8 ***

"Downtown" Michael Brown originally from Newport Beach in Orange County Ca.
now hails from Pahrump Nevada. The son of Judy Cooke and renowned jazz Pianist, Ronnie
Brown, Michael has played the saxophone since the age of nine. He started
out on a clarinet but quickly moved to saxophone because: 1. Clarinet
players were not allowed in the school jazz band at Heinze Kaiser Middle
School, and 2. His big brother said, girls dug saxophone players a lot more
than clarinet players.

A regular on the Las Vegas and national touring scene he has performed with
the likes of, Buckwheat Zydeco, The Platters, Lil' Elmo and the Cosmos,
Shake Rattle and Roll, Launi Kristopher, Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88's and is currently the Saxophonist for Ivan Kane's Forty Deuce Club inside Mandalay Bay Las Vegas. He also is the Saxophonist for the Legendary group Sha Na Na.


When not rocking, he is a race car driver and the Executive director for the Melanoma Education Foundation of Nevada.


Music:
80's; Berlin; Men at Work; Van Halen; Huey Louis and the News; Duran Duran; The Stray Cats; INXS; Tears for Fears; The Police; Steely Dan; The Smiths; The Cramps; Def leppard; Swing; blues; jump blues and one of my favorite's (thanks to my wife playing it every morning) Crash Test Dummies-(God shuffled his feet).