Paige Brown
Music/Composition
Chicago, IL
Vocalist, pianist and composer Paige Brown believes in the use of voice as a channel, and the use of the instrument/body as a voice.
Having inherited a version of the deep, resonant vocals of her father and her late grandfather, she rejoices in the ability to play inside that resonance, bringing this sound to bear in songs that speak of joy, love, grief, and hope. She draws from a broad spectrum of influences that range from high school madrigal singers to college gospel choir, Debussy to Dr. Watts, Porgy and Bess to Patrice Rushen, skipping from soul to funk to folk and weaving through sounds somewhere in between. Although a lover of the forms she has trained in, she believes that her greatest artistic growth currently lies in experimentation with the Chicago interdisciplinary improvisational artist community, learning from and alongside those who confound categorization and genre. In 2023, she was accepted as a member of the 7th cohort of the M3 (Musical Mentorship for Musicians) Residency in New York.
Emerging from her compositional chrysalis, she strives to develop the inner mechanisms and connections to deepen and externalize her own practice more fully, reacquainting herself with the simple, playful practices that attracted her to Music, her first love.