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About Me

Brian was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. to musician parents. His love affair with the drums began at age 3 and at that time his parents knew they had a child prodigy on their hands. Brian came up in the strong Pittsburgh tradition of jazz. He decided to follow in the foot steps of great Pittsburgh drummers like Kenny Clark, Art Blakey, Joe Harris, Greg Humphries, and Roger Humphries. In his teens, he started to expand his abilities by diving into Drum and Bugle Corps drumming. Later, he went on to play with Pittsburgh greats Kenny Blake, Dwayne Dolphin, Eric Kloss, Jimmy Ponder, Gene Ludwig, Dakota Staton, David Budway, Maureen Budway and Kenny Rankin. Brian's touring and recording credits includes: DeBarge, Bunny DeBarge,El DeBarge,Alexander O' Neal, Cherrelle, Libby Goines, Tom Schuman, Joe McBride, Jeffrey Osborne, Bobby Mcferrin, The Real Silk Band, Kenny Blake, Jenny Jones, Paisley Park Records, CBS/Tabu Records,Ingrid Chavez, and Jesse Johnson just to name a few. His international recording debut was on Johnson's CD, Bare My Naked Soul. Brian has toured Japan and Europe numerous times and has played almost every major European venue , including Wembley Arena and Royal Albert Hall in performances for the Royal family with Alexander O'Neal. He also has American and European television appearences under his belt some of which include: MTV Europe and BET on jazz. Besides being an in demand drummer,Brian is a solo artist,producer,composer,and author with three books to his credit. The European release of Edwards' debut CD, The Theorical Journey is set for 2007. Edwards' is already at work on the follow up CD to also be released in 2007 on Theorical Music, his own indie label. Brian is a visionary and music powerhouse that has to be experienced to be believed.

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My Interests

Family and music 1st , everything else...secondary.

I'd like to meet:

Josef Zawinul,Jesus,The Dali Lama...oh yeah musicians and cool people.

Music:

Weather Report , Zawinul Syndicate , Jaco Pastorius , Funkadelic ,Motown , Led Zepplin , Hendrix , Marley , Peter Tosh , Stone Temple Pilots , Mozart , Sublime , Thomas Dolby, Coltrane, Miles , Bird , Art Blakey , John Scofield , Living Color , Mahavishnu Orchestra , Joe Jackson , Super Tramp , James Brown, Bootsy Collins , The Clash , Fun Loving Criminals , Monk , George Benson , Marcus Miller , Billy Cobham

Movies:

Good Fellas , Anything Bruce Lee , Kill Bill (1-2), the God Father, House Of The Woo Tang Clan, Deep Cover,The Warriors

Television:

Law & Order (all of them) , Travel Channel , Globe Trekker ,Public Television ,The discovery channel,Food Channel

Books:

The Prophet , As a Man Thinketh , The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success , You Can If You Think You Can , Basquiat , The Bible

Heroes:

My Mom and Dad and anyone who believes in peace!

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