Music is My Life, Politics My Mistress. Distributed by Galloping Films

Poet, jazz singer, composer (1000 songs), trade union activist, radio host and senatorial candidate, Oscar Brown Jr., was a self-educated polymath whose voice, both musical and political, reached the empowered and disempowered alike. A playful and charismatic performer, Brown was also an acclaimed jazz lyricist who worked closely with Abbey Lincoln and Nina Simone and collaborated with Max Roach, Miles Davis and Bobby Timmons on some of the most memorable compositions of the hard bop era.

Beyond his musical achievements, Brown also engaged in a parallel career as a lifelong political activist of tireless strength and unceasing moral stamina, and his entire life can be read as a parable of the civil rights and Black Power eras in the United States. His lyrics touching on every subject from human dignity and childhood wonder to marijuana and cockroaches, Brown emerges as a kind of Black Everyman.

Winner 2005 Chicago Black Excellence Awards at Black Harvest Film Festival
Winner 2005 Best Documentary Feature at St. Louis International
Winner 2005 Audience Choice Best Documentary at St. Louis International
Winner 2005 Best Documentary at Starz Denver International
Winner 2005 People's Choice Best Documentary at Starz Denver International
Winner 2006 Circle Audience Award at DC Fest Washington
Winner 2006 Honourable Mention Impact of Music Award at Nashville Film Festival

For further information contact carlos@gallopingfilms.com or visit www.gallopingfilms.com

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• Galloping Films
• Music is my Life
• Politics my Mistress
• Oscar Brown Jr
• Black Power
• Donnie L. Betts

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I just discovered him, just an hour ago, but he's been dead five years.

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