Barbara Brousal is a Boston, Massachusetts based singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

. She sings, plays guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

 and mandolin

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

 and composed songs on four children's albums

Children's music

Children's music is used here to refer to music composed and performed for children by adults. In European influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment...

 with Dan Zanes

Dan Zanes

Dan Zanes was a member of the popular 1980s band The Del Fuegos and is currently the front man of the Grammy-winning group Dan Zanes and Friends.-History:...

 and Friends

Dan Zanes and Friends

-History:When Dan Zanes and his wife had a baby, they moved to New York City. Zanes subsequently began playing music with a group of fathers that he had met in West Village playgrounds who were also there with their kids...

 including the Grammy winner Catch That Train. Additionally, she toured with Dan Zanes and Friends from 2000 to the fall of 2006. Web site: http://www.barbarabrousal.com

The Disney Channel

Disney Channel

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 have extensively featured a video of Brousal performing (with Dan Zanes) her own composition called "Malti." http://disney.go.com/disneychannel/playhouse/danzanes/dz_video.html

Brousal has also released three solo albums of original material, Breathing Down Your Neck (1996), Pose While It Pops (2000), and Just About Perfect (2002). Her songs have appeared on the soap opera

Soap opera

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 One Life to Live

One Life to Live

One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...

and in the independent film

Independent film

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 Hold This.http://www.danzanes.com/pages/cool_things.php

Brousal wrote the music for the play Brooklyn Bridge, by playwright Melissa James Gibson

Melissa James Gibson

-Life:The child of former BC Liberal MLA Gordon Gibson and his journalist wife Valerie, Gibson grew up in North Vancouver. She graduated from Columbia University and from the Yale School of Drama with an M.F.A. in Playwriting. She is working on commissions for the La Jolla Playhouse and The...

, and performed in its premier at the Children's Theatre Company

Children's Theatre Company

The Children's Theatre Company is a regional theatre established in 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota specializing in plays for families and young audiences and the recipient of a 2003 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre...

 in Minneapolis, MN.

Brousal is also sister to Singer/Songwriter and Voice Actor Eric Stuart

Eric Stuart

Eric Stuart is a voice actor, voice director, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. As the lead singer of his own band, the Eric Stuart Band , he is an award-winning independent artist with a growing US and international fan base.Stuart gained acclaim as a voice actor not only because of his...

, and step-daughter to writer William Hogeland.

External links

• Malti video a song written and sung by Barbara Brousal; performed with Dan Zanes & Friends