Carl Finch (born November 29, 1951, in

Texarkana, Texas Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States, in the Ark-La-Tex region. Located approximately from Dallas, Texarkana is a twin city with neighboring Texarkana, Arkansas. The Texas city's population was 36,193 at the 2020 census. ...

) is a guitarist, keyboard player,

accordionist Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed i ...

, vocalist, songwriter and record producer who co-founded the

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-winning

polka Polka is a dance and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though associated with Czech culture, polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas. History Etymology The term ...

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band

Brave Combo Brave Combo is a polka/rock/worldbeat band based in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1979 by guitarist/keyboardist/accordionist Carl Finch, they have been a prominent fixture in the Texas music scene for more than thirty-five years. Their music, both o ...

in 1979 in

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Career highlights

He co-produced the albums ''

Equal Scary People ''Equal Scary People'' is the first album by the American singer-songwriter Sara Hickman, released in 1988 on Four Dots. It was rereleased in 1989 on Elektra Records. Production The album was co-produced by Carl Finch. Critical reception ''Tro ...

'' for the singer-songwriter

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and ''

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'' for the ''

conjunto The term ''conjunto'' (, literally 'group', 'ensemble') refers to several types of small musical ensembles present in different Latin American musical traditions, mainly in Mexico and Cuba. While Mexican conjuntos play styles such as '' norteño' ...

'' musician Santiago Jimenez, Jr. He composed music for and appears as an extra in

David Byrne David Byrne (; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, writer, music theorist, visual artist and filmmaker. He was a founding member and the principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of ...

's 1986 movie '' True Stories''. His instrumental "Mall Music" appears on the associated album '' Sounds from True Stories''. He co-wrote the music for the play ''Evelyn and the Polka King''. He produced the opening for ''

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'' and both the opening and ending themes for the

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dub of ''

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'' and ''

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''. He appeared in animated form, along with the rest of Brave Combo, on an episode of ''

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'' in 2004. He produced and, along with Brave Combo, performed all of the music for the 2008 animated PBS television series ''

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''.

Personal life

Finch is a vegetarian.

References

External links

Brave Combo official website
1951 births Living people People from Texarkana, Texas Polka musicians Musicians from Texas Record producers from Texas 21st-century accordionists {{Texas-bio-stub