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A 1984 graduate of the Wharton School, P. Miles Bryson is the side project of r&b artist Peabo Bryson. Unable to find support amongst management or the production team at Capitol Records for something more than the sophisticated urban sounds for which he had become famous, Bryson started his own label, taking advantage of his prestigious business degree and drawing ever so playfully off his previous record business success. His influence has been cited by artists ranging from Kylie Minogue ("Crochet Song") to Glen Campbell ("Wichita Revisited") to Gyorgy Ligeti ("Atmospheres") and more distantly to Idi Amin. Recently denounced during...

Peabo Bryson (born Robert Peabo Bryson on April 13, 1951) is an American singer, born in Greenville, South Carolina. He is well known for singing romantic soft-rock ballads, often as a duo with female singers. With twenty albums to his credit, Peabo Bryson has enjoyed an unprecedented, across-the-board level of international success, Bryson has the distinction of being the first artist in music history to have separate records topping four different charts. Bryson won a Grammy Award in 1992 for his performance of the song "Beauty and the Beast" with Céline Dion and another in 1993 for "A Whole New...

Jeanie Bryson (born March 10, 1958 in New York City) is an American singer with a combination of jazz, pop and Latin music. The singer's repertoire is based on durable jazz and pop standards, firmly rooted in The Great American Songbook and the legacies of Peggy Lee and Dinah Washington. Bryson is the daughter of songwriter Connie Bryson and Dizzy Gillespie. Her husband was guitarist Coleman Mellett, who died in the February 2009 crash of Continental Airlines Flight 3407.The couple had resided in East Brunswick, New Jersey. While at school with jazz pianist Kenny Barron, Rutgers University, she began to...

Jim Bryson is a folk-roots-rock-anything else musician from Ottawa, Canada. The Weakerthans are Canadian music darlings with a flair for literary gems captured in song hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba. They teamed up to produce this subtle and beautiful album one cold winter in the Weakerthans' home province. Magic ensued. .