BROWN, TONY
(*1946)
BROWN, TONY (b. Greensboro, N.C., December 11, 1946) Brown was one of the most influential recording executives in 1980s-1990s Nashville. He was raised in the GOSPEL tradition; his family had their own non-denominational group that performed spiritual songs at churches throughout the South. He began playing piano on stage as a teenager, and after completing high school went professional when he joined The Stamps Gospel Quartet . Next he worked with THE OAK RIDGE BOYS when they were still…