“THE LAST OF THE TRULY GREAT SONG AND DANCE MEN” Singer, Dancer, Tap-Dancer, Comedy, Characters, Mime, Robotics, Great Story teller, and Song Stylist.
Movin’ Melvin Brown was born in Cincinnati Ohio USA, he started to steal the hearts of people who watched him dance at the age of five, from a church and gospel background. He had his own doo-wop group as a teenager, where as Cincinnati was the hub of Black music during this time he opened and appeared with such greats as James Brown, BB King, The Isley Brothers, Little Stevie Wonder etc., later forming the group Movin’ Soothin and Stone Funk Band, who toured extensively throughout the US and Canada, and recorded the hit song ‘Send Me Some Love’, at which time they appeared with the likes of Lionel Ritchie and The Commodores, and The Ohio Players, this was only one of the many songs that Melvin wrote and sang on with the group, and appeared in the movie ‘The Minstrel Man’.
Melvin later began to write and tour with James Matthews as a duet, and where he wrote and produced the Album which contained the hit song Love Stormy Weather, which was charted as a Jazz hit recently and top soul single internationally, in London too. Then for about three years Melvin toured with a successful comedy team Pigmeat Jr and Co., and later he went on to tour with a distinct dance show that was known as Flash. They worked most of the US and Canada, and were distinct as one of the first show of its kind, so they were invited to appear on many TV and radio stations throughout the US and Canada.
In the late seventies and eighties Melvin started a project called “The Change This World” Project, (in support of homeless, the elderly and children, after great success in his now Home town of Austin Texas, where he wrote the title song for this project and CD, Change This World, during this time he appeared in several movies, three with Willie Nelson (A Pair of Aces, Another Pair of Aces, and The Red Headed Stranger). Then Melvin took to the stage as Solo Performer worldwide where he made grand appearance at the Oprah Winfrey birthday party for Maya Angelou, and after recording two more CDs he toured throughout places like Australia, China, Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the UK, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, and more…
In the meantime Melvin wrote and appeared in his first musical A MAN, A MAGIC, A MUSIC, (originally a one man show) which is a tour through black music history 50’s through 90’s, with songs of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, The Platters, James Brown, Louis Armstrong and more, to include songs written by Melvin himself, and encompasses the total of his background skills on stage, and opened to five star rating reviews in Edinburgh, Adelaide, Avignon etc. He went on to script another successful Musical ME RAY CHARLES AND SAMMY DAVIS JR, that encompasses the life and times and skills of two of the greatest black singers and entertainers of the decade, the voice of Ray Charles and the versatility of Sammy Davis Jr, an unbeatable match for stage. This show has filled houses from Avignon, Paris, to New York, Vancouver, to Edinburgh etc.
Melvin’s newest submission to the musical stage is SOUL TO SOUL (I Have A Dream), a show that sketches the trip from Africa to America through the term soul music, its meaning and origins, a story told through great song, dance, tap, and other skills.
Through these shows Melvin has produced seven other CDs and was picked as the ‘Best Blues Artist’ by LA radios.
