Starlight Band Biography Starlight Band Consists of: Colleen Brown (Vocalist/Lyricist) has been singing all of her life. Her father, a classical pianist, taught her from age 5, vocal phrasing and other essential vocal concepts. As a result her singing style is very much like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and other groove oriented jazz singers whose voicings for jazz improvisation always tell a musical story. Colleen has performed for many different musical genre styles with bands in Arizona, California and Florida from 1955 through the mid-70's. Colleen continued to polish her vocal skills in the late 70's performing as a featured jazz vocalist with the California Orange Coast College Jazz Band and several local small jazz groups. Howard Brown (Composer/Guitarist), a member of the first graduating class (1977-1978) of the world-famous Guitar Institute of Technology (G.I.T.), recently renamed "Musicians' Institute" in Hollywood, Ca. and once sat in with jazz Bassist Ray Brown at a NAMM show in Los Angeles, Ca. Howards' music education began with cornet/trumpet playing in Jr. High, followed by piano lessons (mostly chords) and at age 15, classical guitar lessons for a couple of years. During high school, he became interested in jazz and has been dedicated to jazz guitar since that time. Howard has played guitar professionally with different small groups and combos for many years learning old standards, jazz standards, Bossanovas and top 40 songs. Howard & Colleen married in 1957, performed in California, Florida and Arizona before settling in Payson, Az (2004). For 20 years they retired from music until 2005 (retirement for Howard), when a couple of musician friends asked them to "sit-in" at the Strawberry Lodge in the Arizona mountains. They worked with the "Payson Jazz Trio" for about 1 1/2 years before moving on to a small group now named "Starlight". They are now performing with "Starlight" doing a few concerts, weddings and other events that request "Starlight" music. Howard composed and arranged the music and Colleen penned the lyrics for "Just Maybe", a Bossanova tune soon to be released via digital download on CDBaby. Mike Casey (Composer/Keyboards/Vocals), began his professional music career in Schenectady, N.Y. while playing with "Pryzm" in 1993. Mike moved to Payson, Az. in 2010, and has composed music and lyrics for over 30 songs including "In The Center Of His Will" which Starlight will release in July. Roscoe J. Dabney IIIrd (Executive Producer/drummer/vocals) Roscoe started his professional music career in 1961 in Tulsa, Ok. He has performed with many famous musicians including B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, "Brother Jack McDuff" and "The Gap Band". Roscoe and his family moved to Payson, Az. from San Clemente, Ca. in 2004. Starlight is currently recording an album at "The Talent Factory Studios" in Payson, Az. The first song, "Just Maybe" will be released as a single probably through CDBaby as a download mp3 and "In The Center Of His Will" will be released as a single mp3 download sometime in July.