Duke Nguyen Browning

My Love For You (Rel 06/07)
You're My Lord (Rel 03/07)
Gymnastic Times
Love Never Fails (1 Vocal & 1 Soundtrack CD)
Christmas - Season of Givin' & Love
Dear New York, NY

Duke Nguyen Browning has also created the following artist pages:
18 - Lift Your Wings
Christianity in A Nutshell
Circle of Love (My Love For You)
Duke Nguyen Browning
Duke Nguyen Browning (Songwriter)
Duke Nguyen Browning, Songwriter
Duke Nguyen Browning_SSA501
Love Never Fails (1st Corinthians 13)

Duke Nguyen Browning’s Bio

Whether it is for one's life, one's love, or one's faith, the listeners of music written by Duke Nguyen Browning will find his songs positive, inspirational, and encouraging.  The lyrics are pure and universal. The songs are timeless.

In 2006, Duke wrote 29 songs, including Patriotic, Contemporary Christian, Christmas, Country, Love/Wedding songs.  He received 9 Directors’ Awards for some of the songs he submitted to Paramount Group, Nashville, Tennessee, for “Nashville International Song & Lyric Writing Competition” since late Summer 2006.

Duke's love and passion for music began before he was a teenager.  Using earnings for his first job as a photographer and darkroom technician, he started taking basic music theory and voice lessons at the age of 15 which ended shortly before he turned 18 when he joined the South Vietnamese Marines. 

Despite of his love for music, the initial English language barrier prevented him from further pursuing his musical dream when Duke left Vietnam and came to the United States the day the Vietnam war ended on April 29, 1975.  Upon his arrival in the United Stated, learning English was Duke's top priority.  Having a love and passion for music, Duke found a creative way to learn English. He started out with several music albums that had the lyrics printed on the cover of the records. Those were Barry Manilow’s “I Write The Songs”, John Denver’s "Back Home Again", Seals & Crofts’ "Diamond Girls", Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, Jim Croce’s “Photographs & Memories”…. Needless to say, after a couple of weeks, Duke had the Vietnamese translations written all over the printed lyrics of those record covers. Shortly thereafter, not only did he know the songs on the albums, but also understood the meaning of the songs. It was a wonderful way of learning and entertaining myself, Duke recalls as he further states:

"I cannot imagine life without music."

"Writing music is a great joy for me because I can write down so few words and yet they tell many things and express so much of what I want to say."

"The beauty about songs is that many music listeners can take a song and interpret the meaning that is appropriate to him or her in a given situation, at any given time".

"Music brings you joy and hope and takes you back to the place and time of wonderful memories ... and sometimes memories that you wish not to have, but that's fine, too, because that's all a part of life."

"I still remember a few lines from one of John Denver's songs that is true to me until this day. It goes something like this: "Music makes pictures and often tells stories. Some of it's magic and some of it's true. Some of the pictures and some of the stories. Some of it's magic, the music is you."

After more than 30 years of pursuing other dreams in the United States and together with his wife, Kerrin, since 1983, building and raising a family with three precious daughters, Amy, Laura, and Michelle, it seems natural for Duke to try to fulfill his first dream in life - singing and writing songs.  "It is a great honor and a tremendous privilege to have the opportunity to be able to do what you once wanted to do.  This is true not only of writing music and singing songs, but it can be anything, any dream in one's life.” 

“Consciously or unconsciously, we are influenced by what we hear and what we see,” Duke said.  “That being true, my music must have been influenced by the combination of the following artists: Barry Manilow, John Denver, Neil Diamond, Simon & Garfunkel, Jim Croce, Ann Murray, Kenny Rogers, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Amy Grant, Church Choir, and naturally some of the Vietnamese music that I learned and listened to as a teenager.”   

In a Christmas letter Duke received in 2006, one of his friends wrote: I remember when you first came you asked me to teach you how to sing the song “I Write the Songs” by Barry Manilow.  Little did I know that you'd start writing songs more than 30 years later.” 

Duke is a practicing attorney in Houston, Texas, representing a clientele of small and mid-sized business owners in matters relating to business, and commercial real estate transactions.

·                     He graduated from Washburn University, School of Law (1985), Topeka, Kansas, and is licensed to practice law in Texas.

·                     He received his undergraduate degree from Hope College (1980), in Holland, Michigan.

·                     Duke is fluent in oral as well as written Vietnamese.

·                     Duke, his wife, Kerrin, and his three daughters, Amy, Laura, and Michelle, are members of Holy Covenant United Methodist Church, in Katy, Texas.

          February 2007

 

Basic Info

Age: 52

Gender: Male

Status: Married

Orientation: No Answer

Religion: No Answer

Zodiac: No Answer

Hometown: Houston, Texas

Schools: Hope College, MI & Washburn Scool of Law, KS

Occupation: Attorney

Sing Songs America Website
Fans and listeners may visit this website to view lyrics and listen to songs written by Duke Nguyen Browning. (professionally recorded as well as test runs recording).

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