Pieta Brown

Pieta Brown, photograph by Sandy Dyas

Pieta Brown (born in Iowa City, Iowa) is a singer and songwriter, the oldest daughter of folk singer and record producer Greg Brown and his wife Melanie.

Her early childhood was spent in a series of bohemian households with plenty of music, but no running water or electricity. When she was seven years old she came to Birmingham with her mother, a medical resident. She attended Vestavia City Schools and wrote poetry. At thirteen she moved back to Iowa to live with her father and finish high school.

Brown left home as a teenager and traveled around the country. She managed enough college to earn a linguistics degree at the University of Iowa in 1996. She also picked up the guitar and began working her poems into songs. Her travels took her to New York City and a string of Mexican border towns before she landed in Tucson in the late 1990s.

She built a local following for her music and put together two independent releases in beginning in 2002. Guitarist Bo Ramsey produced her first major label album "In the Cool", released in 2005. She led the production of her fourth album herself, releasing "Remember the Sun" in 2007.

Brown returned to Birmingham to perform at City Stages 2008.

References

• Richardson, Derk (September 19, 2002) "The New Bohemian: Pieta Brown is the contemporary folk newcomer to watch out for" San Francisco Gate
• Van Vleck, Philip (April/May 2003) "Doing Her Own Thing". Dirty Linen. No. 105

External links

• Pieta Brown website
• Pieta Brown on MySpace.com