“Since Brown’s last visit to the area for Steel Bridge Song Fest in 2009, he has been focusing on writing and recording new music. If you ask who he sounds like he will tell you, “I sound like Tony Brown.” For Brown, “music is a healing tool. Lyrics and inspiration delivered through music may not solve the problems of your life but it at least makes you feel good.” Brown’s live performances are packed with the energy of a thousand souls – where singing and dancing are freely encouraged. Through the gift of his music, Brown consistently endeavors to bring forth inspiring and encouraging messages of peace and love to heal this world.Brown has received local, regional and national awards for his music, performances, writing and singing. His album Prisoners In Paradise was selected as one of the 25 albums of the century, and he has already been inducted into two Hall of Fames. ”

“THE TOP 25 MADISON ALBUMS OF ALL TIMES Over the first five decades of Madison-made LPs, cassettes, CDs and now digital albums, these 25 pop recordings made the biggest splash. They helped influence the direction of popular music in Wisconsin and, sometimes, across the country and the world. 3. The Tony Brown Band Prisoners in Paradise (1982) Madison's reggae pioneer spent eight months in Jamaica after finishing this recording at the local Full Compass Sound Studios. By the time he returned, studio owner Rick Murphy had arranged for national distribution through Jem. The album established Brown's credentials well beyond the borders of Mad City.”

"When we see human issues become human issues instead of poor people's issues, fat people's issues (or) black people's issues, then we can make the world a better place again," said Brown, who continues to promote that philosophy onstage. "Until that happens, we'll keep finding fault in racial and economic differences."

“WATERLOO - In the 1960s and '70s, Tony Brown helped put Waterloo on the map as a member of a wildly popular Motown cover band.IBTC, one of the Cedar Valley's first groups to embrace both black and white musicians, entertained integrated crowds across the state.Their job wasn't always easy.Although kids of all colors danced to their beats, IBTC's out-of-town performances often attracted the wrong kind of attention. Groups of white men, dissatisfied with the country's first steps toward racial equality, sometimes threatened the players, necessitating a police escort.But there was no denying the wheels of change were turning, said Brown, now 58. And African-American musicians helped pave the way."For a black person to walk into a Kresge's or a J.C. Penney's and have people singing The Temptations, or The Impressions, or The Supremes - that was something," said Brown.Brown was inducted into the Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame along with the other members of IBTC in 2008.”

“Over the first five decades of Madison-made LPs, cassettes, CDs and now digital albums, these 25 pop recordings made the biggest splash. They helped influence the direction of popular music in Wisconsin and, sometimes, across the country and the world. 3. The Tony Brown Band Prisoners in Paradise (1982) Madison's reggae pioneer spent eight months in Jamaica after finishing this recording at the local Full Compass Sound Studios. By the time he returned, studio owner Rick Murphy had arranged for national distribution through Jem. The album established Brown's credentials well beyond the borders of Mad City.”