Bio

Sound Sovereign (formerly julie brown) is a composer, vocalist, and former healing practitioner, whose work is rooted in sacred refuge, embodied decolonization, and restorative liberatory practice. 

  

Cultivated through ritual, Sound's music includes chant-based chamber pieces, orchestrated song landscapes, trio-based groove adagios, improvisational solo and collaborative practices, and a bit of singer-songwriter flavor.  With vocal components ranging from pre-lingual/speechless callings to mantra, lyrical language, and prayer.   

​

Sound is a member of Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, the Resistance Revival Chorus, and the vocal director for Treya Lam. A valued member of the Bobby McFerrin Circlesongs community, Sound has performed guest facilitation at McFerrin's annual Circlesongs workshop, held at the Omega Institute.

​

Performances have included Lincoln Center, AfroPunk, Summerstage, Joe's Pub, Carnegie Hall, the Sant’Anna Arressi Jazz Festival in Sardinia-Italy, Brooklyn Museum, San Francisco Jazz, the Rubin Museum, Winter JazzFest NYC, Detroit Institute of the Arts,  Art Gallery of Ontario, JACK, and the Apollo Theater.  

​

Projects and other ensembles include Mendi & Keith Obadike; Elliott Sharp; Carl Hancock Rux, Tonya Pinkins, Stefanie Batten Bland, Anais Maviel, Ashni Davé, Derek McPhatter, and the NY NeoFuturists.

​

Sound is a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, American Composers Forum 2022 ACF Create recipient, and NYFA 2022 NYC Women's Fund recipient.

 

Through these grants & fellowship, Sound's debut solo project - Data and the Disciple, vol. 1 - is scheduled to release and live premiere in 2025.