Miquel Brown

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Miquel Brown (born Michael Brown on February 8, 1945 in Montreal , Québec , Canada ) is an American singer and actress .

biography

Michael Brown changed her first name to Miquel in order not to be mistaken for a man. However, this only worked to a limited extent because she looked very masculine with her short haircut at the time . On later albums, the singer wore a more feminine hairstyle to leave no doubt about her gender.

Brown's parents wanted their daughter to become a doctor, but couldn't get her way because Miquel was drawn into the entertainment industry. Unbeknownst to her mother and father, she went to nightclubs, dropped out of medical school at the University of Washington , and never continued.

After an audition in Detroit, Miquel Brown got the role of Sheila in the musical Hair . A tour of the United States followed. In the early 1970s she moved to Great Britain, where Brown worked as a singer and took on minor roles in films ( Rollerball ) and musicals ( The Best Little Whorehouse , Starlight Express ). Her first album, Symphony of Love , got her attention in the late 1970s.

Together with producer Ian Levine ( Evelyn Thomas - High Energy ), the single So Many Men, So Little Time was created , which made it into the charts. The titles He's a Saint, He's a Sinner , Black Leather and Close to Perfection also achieved placements in various hit parades. Other singles, such as I Was Strong (My Moment) (1990), could not build on the old successes.

Miquel Brown has a daughter, Sinitta , who enjoyed success as a pop singer in the 1980s.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1978: Symphony of Love (Polydor)
  • 1983: Manpower (Carrere / Record Shack)
  • 1985: Close to Perfection (Record Shack)

Compilations

  • 1991: The Best of Miquel Brown: So Many Men, So Little Time
  • 1991: The Best of Miquel Brown
  • 1996: The Best Of
  • 2006: Orgànic
  • 2006: One Hundred Percent Miquel Brown
  • 2006: Simply Miquel Brown
  • 2006: So Many Men
  • 2006: The Very Best of Miquel Brown
  • 2014: Manpower / Close to Perfection (Special Edition) (UK) / Disco Recharge: Miquel Brown (US)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK Dance Dance
1979 Symphony of Love /
Dancing with the Lights Down Low
Symphony of Love 		- - Dance28 (7 weeks)
Dance
First published: December 1978
Authors: Alan Hawkshaw , Barry Mason
1983 So Many Men, So Little Time
Manpower 		DE28 (16 weeks)
DE 		UK88 (4 weeks)
UK 		Dance2 (19 weeks)
Dance
First published: May 1983
Authors: Ian Levine, Fiachra Trench
1984 He's a Saint, He's a Sinner
Manpower 		- UK68 (4 weeks)
UK 		Dance29 (10 weeks)
Dance
First published: January 1984
Authors: Ian Levine, Fiachra Trench
So Many Men, So Little Time (Remix)
Manpower 		- UK78 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: May 1984
Authors: Ian Levine, Fiachra Trench
Beeline
manpower 		- - Dance44 (6 weeks)
Dance
1985 Close to Perfection
Close to Perfection 		- UK63 (7 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: August 1985
Authors: Ian Levine, Fiachra Trench

More singles

  • 1973: Something to Do with Love
  • 1977: First Time Around
  • 1979: The Day That They Got Disco in Brazil
  • 1984: manpower
  • 1985: On the Radio
  • 1985: One Hundred Percent
  • 1986: One Way Street / Love Reputation
  • 1986: Footprints in the Sand
  • 1986: You're the Love of My Life (with Joe Bourne)
  • 1986: Medley Mix (Miquel Brown / BB & Q. Band / Barbara Pennington / Fatback )
  • 1989: This Time It's Real
  • 1990: I Was Strong (My Moment)
  • 1991: So Many Men, So Little Time (Remixes)
  • 1993: The Mega Mix
  • 1997: It's a Sin

Soundtracks

Filmography

  • 1974: Armchair Cinema - (episode: "Regan" - as 'Miriam')
  • 1975: Rollerball
  • 1978: Superman - (8th reporter)
  • 1983: Philip Marlowe, Private Eye - (1 episode: "Smart Aleck Kill" - as stripper 'Lurleen')
  • 1989: Casualty - (1 episode: "Accidents Happen" - as Jill)
  • 1995: Solomon & Sheba - (TV, as House Keeper)
  • 1995: French Kiss - (as Sgt. Patton)
  • 2001: Wit - (TV, as Techniker 2)
  • 2005: The Curse of Betsy Bell - (OT: "An American Haunting" - as Chloe)
  • 2006: 9/11 - The last minutes in the World Trade Center - (OT: "9/11: The Twin Towers" - as Diane Defontes)
  • 2008: New York for Beginners - (OT: "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" - as Clayton's assistant)
  • 2010: Locked In - (as sister Maya)

swell

  1. ↑ Biography at imdb.com
  2. ^ Billboard Dance / Club Charts
  3. ↑ Chart discography Nederlandse Top 40
  4. ↑ Chart sources: DE UK
  5. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Brown, Miquel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Canada