Brant O. Miller
songwriter, screenwriter, producer, actor, musician
Home base: Hollywood Park, Texas
Music with passion, hope, humor, and a great beat: an Adult Contemporary marriage of pop, rock, country, and jazz. In the U.S. & Globally, Brant has received numerous awards and abundant airplay. HIS RECENT HIT, "MEDICINE WHEEL" is tracking at NUMBER ONE on Backstage Entertainment's Nat'l AC/Hot AC Main Chart.
BIO
The rich cultural mix of my home, SAN ANTONIO, has nourished me for years, as have the influences of motion picture scores, American folk, R&B and Top 40 of the 60s and 70s, the British invasion, the jazz of Parker, Coltrane and Miles, and the eternal musical strains of my Irish and Jewish bloodlines. At crucial times, I've had great mentors who have nurtured my hopeful spirit:
Composer, producer, engineer, performer Mitchell Markham worked with me over the course of 2 years, producing a collection of my originals, entitled "Critical Mass."
When Nancy Jo Glasgow and I met, what unfolded was a collaboration of hearts, minds, and united intent: a friendship and creative partnership focused on the desire to create value in the world. (To a tune that makes your body want to move, whenever possible.) This partnership, which led to the production of 4 CDs of original music, and various singles, some of which the two of us wrote together, continues stronger today than ever before. It also led me to..
Col. Buster Marvin Doss, Nashville legend and country music titan, long-time friend and associate of Nancy's. Buster took me in for a series of Nashville recording sessions & the professional training of a lifetime. I am deeply indebted to Col. Buster Marvin Doss.
Their devotion, and that of other true friends and family, keeps calling me out from my comfort zones to continue to stretch myself as a person and artist, and to share with the world the music that comes forth.
I believe music has an important function to bring people together, helping us to overcome all differences. It stimulates, like little else, the deep bond of kinship between all human beings.
DISCOGRAPHY
CRITICAL MASS, a collection of rich, pop-rock-adult contemporary adventures in sound
4 CDs on WIZARD/STARDUST RECORDS, NASHVILLE: SONGS FROM PARADISE; THE HEART; THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM; THIS TRAIN
as well as a continual slew of Hit Songs on the National & International Indie Charts (since 1991) including:
"Impeachment Blues," "Country Jazz", "Land of Eternal Light","What it is is what it Aint", "A Child's Christmas Prayer", "The Fly and I", "World without Guns", "The Heart", "Carry On", "Bullets and Beer", "Replaced", "Rebellion Road", "Shame", "Cowboy Christmas" and "Every Life is Sacred".
AWARDS
A variety of International music awards through the years, including 3 Airplay International King Eagle Awards and a
Germany Country Music Association Award
My production studio in San Antonio is suited for music production of various kinds, including film and television