Dave Brown (broadcaster)
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Dave Brown, better known as "Brownie", is an RnB
soul
and funk
disc jockey
on Solar Radio Mon - Fri between 1 and 4 p.m. BST (8 to 11 a.m. EST) on Sky 0129 www.solarradio.com, who started his broadcasting career in the early 1980s for BBC
Radio
Medway
(which later became BBC Radio Kent
) presenting the Mid-Morning Talk & Music Show 9 -11am Monday to Friday, with an audience bigger than Radio 1 in its transmission area. During this period he earned a reputation for having one of the most listened to Soul Shows in the UK on Friday nights across the South East of the UK. Playing soul sounds including Donald Byrd
, Patrice Rushen
, George Duke
, Teddy Pendergrass
Aretha Franklin
and many more.
He worked for Radio Orwell & Saxon (now known as Heart FM
) in East Anglia presenting Saturday's 6-9pm 'Boogie Down' with Dave Brown & Sunday Lunchtimes. He left the BBC
in October 1987 joining Invicta Radio, the commercial Radio Station for Kent, leaving in 1991 to pursue business interests.
Dave returned to Radio in 1996 as a programming consultant for Essex Radio during their application for a new dance station 'Vibe FM', which went on air November 1998 covering the East of England, now known as Total Kiss. He presented the popular R'n'B show 'Brown Beats' until 2001.
Dave joined Solar Radio in April 2004, with his daily show Monday to Friday 1pm till 4pm. He is also a regular contributor to "The Juke Joint" on Kiss 98.7 Birmigham, Alabama.
RNB
RNB is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:* Nankai Broadcasting – , a broadcasting station in Ehime Prefecture, Japan* Rhythm and blues* Contemporary R&B* Russian National Library...
soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
and funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
disc jockey
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
on Solar Radio Mon - Fri between 1 and 4 p.m. BST (8 to 11 a.m. EST) on Sky 0129 www.solarradio.com, who started his broadcasting career in the early 1980s for BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
Medway
Medway
Medway is a conurbation and unitary authority in South East England. The Unitary Authority was formed in 1998 when the City of Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with Gillingham Borough Council and part of Kent County Council to form Medway Council, a unitary authority independent of Kent County...
(which later became BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Kent.It broadcasts on FM on 96.7 , 97.6 and 104.2 also 774 and 1602 MW and DAB.- History :The radio station was launched in 1970 under the name of BBC Radio Medway, originally only serving the...
) presenting the Mid-Morning Talk & Music Show 9 -11am Monday to Friday, with an audience bigger than Radio 1 in its transmission area. During this period he earned a reputation for having one of the most listened to Soul Shows in the UK on Friday nights across the South East of the UK. Playing soul sounds including Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd is best known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a...
, Patrice Rushen
Patrice Rushen
Patrice Rushen is a Grammy Award-winning African American R&B and jazz vocalist, composer and pianist.-Biography:...
, George Duke
George Duke
George Duke is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music...
, Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Pendergrass
Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade...
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
and many more.
He worked for Radio Orwell & Saxon (now known as Heart FM
Heart Network
Heart is a radio network of 17 adult contemporary independent local radio stations in central & southern England and north Wales. Each station broadcasts local breakfast and drive time shows and simulcasts network programming at all other times...
) in East Anglia presenting Saturday's 6-9pm 'Boogie Down' with Dave Brown & Sunday Lunchtimes. He left the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
in October 1987 joining Invicta Radio, the commercial Radio Station for Kent, leaving in 1991 to pursue business interests.
Dave returned to Radio in 1996 as a programming consultant for Essex Radio during their application for a new dance station 'Vibe FM', which went on air November 1998 covering the East of England, now known as Total Kiss. He presented the popular R'n'B show 'Brown Beats' until 2001.
Dave joined Solar Radio in April 2004, with his daily show Monday to Friday 1pm till 4pm. He is also a regular contributor to "The Juke Joint" on Kiss 98.7 Birmigham, Alabama.