Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (born 1903)

Milton Brown

American band leader, singer and founder of Western swing (1903–1936)

Milton Brown was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop together into a unique, distinctly American hybrid, thus giving him the nickname, "Father of Western Swing". The…