Angie Brown (born 13 June 1963) is a British singer and songwriter from

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. She is a co-artist on the hit single " I'm Gonna Get You" (1992) by

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and performed on a number of recordings with them as lead vocalist including the single "

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" (1993) released by the record label

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. Brown performed in the bridge and chorus of the hit "

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" by UK artist

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and sang the role of the girlfriend. Model Susana Agrippa mimes to Brown's vocals in the music video. As of August 2020, it has attracted in excess of 110,000,000 streams on YouTube. Brown co-wrote and performed the single "

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" with

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. She performed vocals on the album ''

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'' by

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in 1999. Brown has also performed backing vocals for

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, The Dirty Strangers,

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, Mola Mola,

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and

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. In 2014, she appeared on an episode of the third series of ''

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'', singing a live cover version of " I'm Gonna Get You".

Career

1980s

By 1992, Brown had already made her mark in the recording world of Rock/Post Punk with some excellent work in several bands of the time. She joined The Dirty Strangers (with

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and

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) performing on their albums "Dirty Strangers" and "Diamonds". She was a brief member of the group

Thrashing Doves The Thrashing Doves were a London-based rock band. Their line-up consisted of Ken Foreman (vocals/guitar) with Brian Foreman (keyboards), Ian Button (guitar) and Kevin Sargent (drums). The original bass player was Hari Sajjan. Subsequent ba ...

(known at that stage of their career as The Doves), and performed lead vocals on their single "Beaten Up in Love Again".

1990s

She is a co-artist on the

BPI Certified Silver hit single " I'm Gonna Get You" (1992) and performed on a number of recordings with Bizarre Inc as lead vocalist including "

" (1993). She is the featured vocalist on UK top twenty UK track " Rockin' for Myself" by Motiv8. Brown performs in the bridge and chorus of the BPI 2 x Platinum Certified hit "

" by UK artist

and features as a performer playing the role of the girlfriend in both the official single release and official music video in which model Susana Agrippa mimed to Brown's lead vocal section of the recording – As of August 2020 it has attracted in excess of 110,000,000 streams on YouTube. She also performed on other tracks from the album ''

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'' including the UK top 20 hit "Crazy".

2000s

She performed backing vocals for

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on two tracks; "Beneath A Spielberg Sky" and "Somebody" taken from the album Move Me, released 25 September 2000. In 2001 she recorded backing vocals on Danish Pop Musician

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on the

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/ BMG (Denmark) released Album "IsityouIsitme". In 2003 Brown was to come in as a session vocalist on Welsh rock band

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' album '' You Gotta Go There to Come Back'', singing on three tracks: "Jealousy", "High as the Ceiling", and the hit record and BPI Gold Certified " Maybe Tomorrow". She is credited as backing vocalist on Dutch Singer

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's album by the same title released on BMG (The Netherlands) in 2003.

2010s

In 2014 Brown was approached by British/Canadian DJ

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, co-writing and singing on the San City Record/

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and

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release called "Deeper In Love". Brown's vocals are featured throughout "

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" by Swedish DJ Nevada,

and

Fetty Wap Willie Junior Maxwell II (born June 7, 1991), better known by his stage names Fetty Wap or Harlem Fetty, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence after his debut single "Trap Queen" reached number two on the U.S. ''B ...

. Nevada's version features the original vocals of

and Angie Brown, and additional vocals from American rapper

. The song was written by Morrison, William Maxwell, Pyramids in Paris, and Jonathan White. It was released to digital download through Straightforward Music, Nourishing Music, and

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on 23 September 2016. This song has since received commercial successful reaching 2 x Platinum Certified in Australia, Gold Certified in the US and New Zealand, and Silver in the United Kingdom, while making chart appearances in many other countries.

2020s

Angie Brown collaborated with

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and Ollie Jacobs on a track released on London based record label Champion Records.

References

External links

Official site

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