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Cary Brothers is an indie rock American singer-songwriter originally from Nashville, Tennessee. Brothers is best known for the single "Blue Eyes", which was featured on the Grammy winning soundtrack of the film Garden State.
With songs influenced by everything from 80s British New Wave music to 70s folk music, Brothers has achieved critical and commercial success with his independently released EPs as well as his first full length LP "Who You Are."
Brothers found his musical voice playing regularly as part of the musical community at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles, and he has since toured across America and Canada with such acts as The Fray, KT Tunstall, Matt Nathanson, Aqualung, Ben Lee, Imogen Heap, and Liz Phair. He also co-created the Hotel Cafe Tour, which has been bringing its traveling music show across the U.S. and Europe for the last four years.
While many artists focus their efforts mostly on radio exposure, Brothers went a slightly different route and pushed to get songs out to the public through film and television shows, leading a generation of similar-minded indie artists in the United States. Brothers' songs have appeared on the NBC sitcom Scrubs," the FOX mystery "Bones," the WB's "Smallville," ABC Family's show "Kyle XY, "One Tree Hill," and the medical dramas "Grey's Anatomy" and ER." The original version of Brothers' song "Ride" appeared on the soundtrack to the feature film "The Last Kiss." Brothers has also performed on "The Late Late Show," "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," Direct TV's CD USA, and Scrubs. He made a guest appearance with London band Aqualung on "The Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
Brothers released his first full-length album, Who You Are, on May, 2007. The video for the single "Ride" starring Brittany Snow is one of the few independent videos ever to be added to the rotation on VH1 in the U.S. In addition, the record won "Best Rock Album of 2007" by the Indie Acoustic Project. "Ride" has also been mixed by DJ Tiesto and was a huge hit on the dancefloors of Europe in 2008.
Brothers just completed his second record "Under Control," which will be released in Fall 2009.
