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MUSIC

Church focus on social outreach drives Jason Brown’s

quest to share gift of music, inspire support of missions
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Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church Music Brown says his mother encouraged him to join a
Director Jason Brown is a man on mission: make choir after hearing him continuously singing in the
the church the premier location for high quality shower.
church music that enriches this community.
“My singing started quite by chance. It was a
“It’s cliché when people say music is the universal confluence of two things. I used to sing a lot in
language, but I believe there are two things that the shower and my mom encouraged me to join a
every culture has that shape it and bring people choir and sing there. Also, a friend of my mother
together … those two things are food and music,” says heard me talking and told my mother he thought
Brown, who came to the Camden church in 2017. I would have a good singing voice,” Brown says. He
visited the United States through a choir exchange
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Brown has program.
an extensive career in music, which includes
performing with the Fine Arts Singers of New York, “We did a cultural exchange tour with a choir from
and Harlem Opera Theater. New York City, and I was featured as a soloist in

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