(Sound Engineer, Video Producer) Brian was born in Oklahoma into a life surrounded by music. Growing up he was either listening to the sounds of his Aunt Dorothy singing Gospel, his Grandma playing the organ, or the Golden Oldies his parents would play in the car. He started singing in his middle school show choir and continued in show choir through high school. At the age of 13 his parents had the fore sight to enroll him in private voice with renowned vocal coach Mark Wynn. In 1996 and two years later 1998, his association with Mark allowed Brian to perform in his first two sold out concerts at New York's famed Carnegie Hall. After graduating from Blackwell High School, Brian went on to become a front line soloist and dancer in the prestigious Northern Oklahoma College Roustabouts. In the summer of 1999 while performing with Roustabouts he had his first experience over seas when the group took the show on a European Tour. He graduated NOC with his Associates in Computer Science. While attending NOC Brian found a knack for finding and developing local talent, and went on to manage regional acts like Chad Purser, Center Cede, and American Nobodies and Losers. He also started working with his close friend Dustin Bringham to run sound for long time Southern Gospel singer Jerry Hall of the famous Helmsman Quartet. In the late fall of 2001, Brian left his home for the past 21 years headed to Music City USA, Nashville TN. To pay the bills Brian started working for a downtown marketing firm, and before long was putting his finely tuned marketing skills to use while running the corporation. By the early spring of 2003 destiny and music would call upon Brian again when he left his position at the firm to take the opportunity to work with famed music video producer Sherman Halsey. While working at Halsey Productions, Brian began sharpening his television skills by editing videos and televisions specials for such big name country acts as Tim McGraw and The Oak Ridge Boys. It was late July of 2003 when the call came from Brian's long time friend back home, Dustin Bringham, that The Fox Brothers were in need of someone to run live sound. Using the knowledge gain by working with Jerry Hall, Brian once again headed back out on the road, as the Fox Brother's sound engineer. It wasn't long before Lynn Fox spotted and started taking advantage of Brian's many talents. In November of 2003 Brian joined the group on stage of the famous Ryman Auditorium to play rhythm guitar to an estimated 10 million households live on GAC at the 2003 CCMA Awards. Then in 2004 he once again joined them on stage as the group performed songs from there forth coming Fox Grocery Album on the stage of the Legendary Grand Ole Opry. Later he was called on to help write and produce the group's first major music video "If That Ain't Love." Which went on be voted a Top 5 Music Video in the Inspirational Country Music Awards, and proved to be ground breaking in the Christian Country genre when it received rotation on GAC. In 2005 after the success of "If That Ain't Love" Brian was once again called upon to adapt Ann Hartman's treatment for "Tending To Todd" into a viable music video. Together with director David Chilton he managed to create another instant classic about love sustaining a family through three generations. Released in the summer of 2006 the video for "Tending To Todd" has garnered more fan response then any other Christian Country video to date.
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