Senior Spotlight - Quincy Brown

By Andrew Gen

There are many talented students in El Segundo, but few measure up to the talent and success of Quincy Brown. Quincy seeks stardom in the hip-hop industry. His mom was born and raised in Indonesia and came to America to visit family, when she came across a young man by the name of Michael Brown on the flight back. This chance meeting resulted in the birth of Quincy Adam Brown four years later. Born in San Diego, he moved up to LA at the age of three to the lights of the bigger city. When Quincy turned eleven he felt is first hard beat for hip-hop. Quincy’s dad became Quincy’s manager and Quincy started recording his first hip-hop songs at the age of twelve with the stage name Neutral. When he was thirteen he played in the school band during the day and learned how to read music and music theory. Then when he turned fifteen he linked up with a producer out in Venice who taught him the ins and outs of the music industry. Together they recorded and produced tracks out of his studio which brought Quincy to a broader and more experienced view of music.
When high school came, Quincy had his first performance in his mother’s homeland, Indonesia, in front of 300 people. In the crowed was a local hip-hop group and they introduced him to many promoters and producers in Indonesia which helped him get noticed throughout the Asian music market. When Quincy got back to the states he recorded a twelve track album which he called My Level, which got in the hands of a music promoter in Brooklyn, New York. She told Quincy to go to a music festival, MIDEM, so they could meet. She showed Quincy to a record label in Japan which is very interested in Quincy’s music. While Quincy was in MIDEM he was the youngest artist there and he became a well known artist at the 30,000 artist populated festival. While the contract with the Japanese record label was going though its processes, Quincy went on tour in Barcelona and when he returned to the US, he was ready to sign his finished contract. Now, Quincy has to produce a new twelve track album which is to be released in Japan next summer.
Today Quincy is a senior in high school and was recently titled as senior homecoming prince. He enjoys the high life with his best friends’ seniors Eric Kattan, Casey Hernandez and Vince Colbert. Eric Kattan says that Quincy “was really devoted to what he loves to do best and he succeeded.” At school Quincy keeps to the double H’s, hungry but humble, and doesn’t try to stay in the lime light. Quincy keeps his school performances to minimum, with only one performance at last year’s coronation assembly.
Quincy’s father and producer say that Quincy “has a strong love for hip hop music, he has not limited his talents to a single genre. He has a natural gift for writing and producing in multiple styles. Quincy is not afraid to step out of the norm and blend his international heritage with his love of beats and hip hop grooves. He is always interested in collaborating with different artist and producers from around the world. Quincy enjoys his success with his peers and is grateful for the amount of support he receives from them.”
Through his search for stardom, Quincy developed into an entertainer and a roll model for the future stars in the music industry. As a strong, rhythmic, and humble young man, we are lucky to have a senior like Quincy in the class of 2009.

By Cora Chong

By Cora Chong