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  James Brown (Senator) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Brown (11 September 1766 – 7 April 1835) was a United States Senator from Louisiana for the years 1813-1817 and 1819-1823.
He was the brother of John Brown of Virginia and Kentucky (1757-1837), cousin of John Breckinridge, James Breckinridge, and Francis Preston, uncle of James Brown Clay, a Senator from Louisiana.
Brown was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate on December 1, 1812, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John N. Destrehan, and served from February 5, 1813, to March 3, 1817.
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 James Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brown began his professional music career in 1953, and skyrocketed to fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s on the strength of his thrilling live performances and a string of smash hits.
Brown's vocals, not quite sung but not quite spoken, would be a major influence on the technique of rapping, which would come to maturity along with hip hop culture and hip hop music during the following decade.
Brown was a recipient of Kennedy Center Honors for 2003, and a scheduled 2004 unveiling of a statue of Brown in Augusta was delayed because of James Brown's ongoing legal problems.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/James Brown (musician)
James Brown (born May 3, 1928 or 1933), is one of the most important figures in 20th century music and a prime influence in the evolution of gospel and rhythm and blues into soul and funk.
Brown's early hits, such as "Please Please Please," recorded 1956, and "I'll Go Crazy," recorded 1959, were fairly straightforward gospel and R&B compositions marked by a rhythmic acuity and sharpness of vocal and instrumental attack that would later become even more pronounced and would lead to the style called "funk".
James Brown had an appearance in the Jackie Chan movie, The Tuxedo, in which he is flipped and knocked unconscious, forcing Chan to do his routine.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/James_Brown_(musician)   (1466 words)

  
 James Brown (TV personality) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Brown (born February 25, 1951) is a TV personality known for being the host of the Fox network's NFL pre-game show FOX NFL Sunday.
Brown went into sports broadcasting in 1984 when he was offered a job doing Washington Bullets TV games.
Brown was one a handful of investors in the group lead by Washington D.C. real estate developer Ted Lerner.
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 James Brown
James Brown was able to buy a private jet, a villa, four radio stations, a restaurant chain, a moated castle and a music publishing house.
James Brown, the "Godfather of Soul", has never had a voice that could compete with soul stars such as William "Smokey" Robinson or Marvin Gaye and, in the last two decades, his singing abilities have continuously declined.
But James Brown has always been more a funk than a soul man. Despite important weaknesses and the fact, that most of the time his band was entertaining the public, James Brown can, as bandleader, still claim the title "Godfather of Funk", as the act in Basel demonstrated.
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 Brown, (James) Gordon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Brown, (James) Gordon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in 1951 and educated at Edinburgh University, Scottish Labour politician Gordon Brown became chancellor of the Exchequer in Tony Blair's New Labour government, which came to power after the 1997 election.
After the 2001 general election, Brown released more funds for health and other government spending, but there were criticisms that expected benefits were not being achieved and the total tax burden was rising.
Brown was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the son of a Church of Scotland minister.
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 Rock On The Net: James Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Brown's agent has stated that an addiction to painkillers probably initiated the family's actions and the family stepped in after Brown reportedly became distressed while watching television.
Brown was on pain killers for his back which was hurt doing splits at a recent Florida concert.
Brown was reportedly accused by a utility worker of attacking him with a knife.
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 James Brown Pleads To Domestic Violence - June 14, 2004
JANUARY 28--James Brown was arrested today on a domestic violence charge after allegedly pushing his wife to the floor during an argument at the couple's South Carolina home.
Brown, who has a well-known history of arrests and bizarre behavior, was booked into the local lockup, where the below mug shots were taken.
Last July, Brown took out an ad in "Variety" to announce that he and his wife had made a "mutual show business decision" to "go their separate ways." It is unclear whether that anticipated separation and/or divorce has occurred.
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 VH1.com : James Brown : Biography
Brown's style of R&B got harder as the '60s began, as he added more complex, Latin- and jazz-influenced rhythms on hits like "Good Good Lovin'," "I'll Go Crazy," "Think," and "Night Train," alternating these with torturous ballads that featured some of the most frayed screaming to be heard outside of the church.
For some time, Brown had been moving toward more elemental lyrics which threw in as many chants and screams as words, and more intricate beats and horn charts that took some of their cues from the ensemble work of jazz outfits.
Brown was both a brilliant bandleader and a stern taskmaster, leading his band to walk out on him in late 1969.
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 James Brown St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - FindArticles
Brown is also a charter member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and has won numerous awards for his recordings.
Despite these professional successes, Brown is notorious for his "bad-boy" reputation stemming from several run-ins with the law over the years; he served prison time as a youth for theft and later for resisting arrest and traffic violations.
Brown's parents separated when he was four and he continued to live with his father.
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 James Brown's Wife Strife - Jan 29, 2004 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Brown, 70, and wife Tomi Rae, 33, were arguing in their bedroom when Brown reportedly pushed his missus to the floor, scratching and bruising her right arm and hip, police said.
Brown, honored last month at the Kennedy Center Honors as "one of the most influential musicians of the past 50 years," now faces a maximum sentence of 30 days in jail and a $500 fine.
In 2000, Brown was sued by a former employee for sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
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 James BROWN: 'The Godfather Of Soul'
Brown claims he was born in 1933 in Macon, Georgia.
However, Brown returned with a vengeance in 1986 (the year he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame) with 'Livin' In America', the theme song from the Rocky IV film soundtrack.
The Brown resurrection was abruptly curtailed that same year when the singer was arrested after a high-speed car chase.
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 James Brown - Book James Brown for Corporate Events, Fund Raisers
Brown's rise from juvenile delinquent to Soul Brother Number One is among the great modern day American success stories.
Brown scored his first Top 10 pop single in 1965 with "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag", and the hits kept coming for the next decade, one after another at an unheard-of rate.
James Brown's status as "The Godfather Of Soul" remains undiminished.
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 James Brown, 70, arrested on domestic violence charge - www.theage.com.au
Soul singer James Brown was arrested after allegedly pushing his wife to the floor during an argument, police said yesterday.
Brown, 70, was charged with criminal domestic violence on Wednesday and jailed until a bond hearing early today Melbourne time, Aiken County sheriff's spokesman Lieutenant Michael Frank said.
Tomi Rae Brown, 33, was taken to hospital with scratches and bruises to her right arm and hip, Lieutenant Frank said.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/01/29/1075340780399.html   (239 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Biographical information for James Brown
Brown is the recipient of the American Music Awards Award of Merit, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters.
James Brown's life is a classic show business rags-to-riches fairy tale, with the prerequisite hard times in between.
Though his formal education ended in seventh grade, Brown learned about gospel, and by the time he was twenty he had joined a gospel group with singer Bobby Byrd, originally knows as the Avons and then as the Flames.
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 CNN.com - James Brown charged with domestic violence - Jan. 28, 2004
Brown, 70, was charged with criminal domestic violence and was to remain jailed until a bond hearing Thursday morning, Aiken County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Michael Frank said.
Tomi Rae Brown, 33, had scratches and bruises to her right arm and hip and was taken to a hospital, Frank said.
Brown served a 2 1/2-year prison term after a 1988 arrest on drug and assault charges and was convicted of a drug-related offense in 1998.
www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/01/28/james.brown.arrested.ap   (290 words)

  
 American Masters . James Brown | PBS
James Brown is undoubtedly a complex, sometimes misunderstood, but always absorbing figure.
James Brown was due to perform in Boston, Massachusetts.
James Brown is undoubtedly a soul survivor: "Where I grew up there was no way out, no avenue of escape, so you had to make a way.
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 James Brown (1923-2004) British Composer: MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Clifford Brown was born on 18 August 1923 at 49 St. Matthew’s Street, Ipswich to Henry John Brown, an electrical engineer and later professional cellist, and his wife Lois (née Smith) who was a junior school teacher.
In 1948 James became the third member of staff at Leeds University teaching the syllabuses for B Mus and BA in music.
James sold his house in Kirkstall, Leeds and moved into a warden-assisted residence in Bridlington where he was very happy.
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 James Brown
James Brown was perhaps the best known and clearly the most successful fl entertainer of the Sixties and the early Seventies
In the meantime, Brown and Byrd put together a gospel group, that performed under a number of names at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Tocca, Georgia and at auditoriums in the area.
The show was precisely choreographed, with Brown pumping his hips, twisting on one foot, and doing the splits as the troupe would execute their own intricate steps.
www.history-of-rock.com /james_brown.htm   (576 words)

  
 James Brown
James Brown, one of the most influential singers, songwriters and producers in music history, is finally starting to get his due respect, thanks to a generation of rappers who have propelled him back into the spotlight by sampling his volcanic polyrhythmic grooves.
Brown was very much still figuring out his approach at this point, and the tunes are all standard late 50's rock fare, with undistinguished arrangements (the first appearance of the J.C. Davis-led James Brown Band), routine structures and changes, generic lyrics and short running times.
Brown didn't have much to do with this album; everything was written and produced by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight, and James overdubbed his vocals when everything was finished.
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 James Brown News
When James Brown graces the stage of the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center Sunday night, the staff of the "Z" will have had their hands full making sure the Godfather of Soul feels good.
James Hunter is little more than the sum of his influences, but when those are Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson and James Brown, who could ask for more?
He was feeling good and so was the rest of Augusta as he sang some of his greatest hits at the first annual James Brown Music Festival.
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 HBO: Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - James Brown Bio
Brown first joined CBS Sports in 1984 where his duties included co- hosting the NCAA basketball championships, hosting the weekday program during the 1992 Winter Olympics, hosting the Heisman Trophy Award Show, calling play-by-play action for college basketball and NFL coverage, and serving as a reporter for the network's coverage of the NBA Finals.
Brown also hosted a midday program on all-sports radio WTEM in Washington, D.C. He was an outstanding basketball player at DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Md., and went on to have a standout collegiate career.
Brown was born February 25, 1951, in Washington, D.C. He is married to his wife Dorothy and has one daughter.
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 Songwriters Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At the same moment, a name change to The Famous Flames was adopted, a monumental career was launched and the name, James Brown and the Famous Flames became a byword of across-the-board success in the record charts.
The launch pad for this music explosion came during a concert performance of the Brown song, "Please, Please, Please," when a Cincinnati-based recording executive, Syd Nathan heard what was going on and immediately summoned the group to a studio, where the Famous Flames' very first recording of the same song, became a bona fide hit.
Despite his schedule demands, Brown became an advocate for various causes and associated himself with government figures involved in justice for minorities and the poor.
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 Biography - James Brown (Bio 7)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yet in a sense his music is now more influential than ever, as his voice and rhythms are sampled on innumerable rap and hip-hop recordings, and critics have belatedly hailed his innovations as among the most important in all of rock or soul.
All of Brown's singles over the next two years flopped, as he sought to establish his own style, recording material that was obviously derivative of heroes like Roy Brown, Hank Ballard, Little Richard, and Ray Charles.
Brown's new era had truly begun, however, with "Out of Sight," which topped the R&B charts and made the pop Top 30.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | James Brown has prostate cancer
Brown was arrested in January and accused of pushing Ms Hynie to the floor and threatening her.
But he was granted a state pardon in 2003 by the state of South Carolina, meaning he was fully forgiven in the eyes of the law and no longer has to deal with the consequences of his past crimes.
Brown, known as the godfather of soul, is into his fifth decade as a recording artist.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/4085565.stm   (282 words)

  
 BROWN, James
In 1994 James Brown was awarded the Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary, and a New Zealand Society of Authors / Reader's Digest Stout Research Centre writing fellowship.
James Brown was one of four authors shortlisted for the 2002 inaugural Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters.
James Brown was the 2004 Victoria University/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence.
www.bookcouncil.org.nz /writers/brownjames.html   (1049 words)

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