With a “strong yet vulnerable” set of songs drawing mentions to The Sundays, Patty Griffin and Ricky Lee Jones, Brooklyn songwriter Brooke Fox’s effortless vocals and direct lyrics draw a decidedly optimistic reality of relationships and human response. Her second self-produced record, “BREATHE THE SAME AIR” released July 2005, was a best seller on CDBaby and recently took home third place for Female Singer/Songwriter Album at the 2006 Just Plain Folks Music Awards.

On first glance, the strikingly pale Fox, glowing under the stage lights, is simply fair-skinned but her lilywhite features are actually albinism, a rare genetic trait that also causes legal blindness and sensitivity to light. Brooke has spoken to schools and community groups about albinism and made major press appearances (Fox News, CNN, KROQ) on behalf of NOAH (The National Organization of Albinism and Hypopigmentation) to raise awareness in the face of the motion picture release of The Da Vinci Code which marks the 68th “Evil Albino” character to appear in cinema since 1960.

Remarkably, little 5-year-old Brooke seemed to thrive in the bright flood of the spotlight, performing through her childhood years in Northern California. Fox’s obsession with song craft was founded early. She began creating her own music in front of the Fox family piano at the age of eight and went on to earn her Bachelor’s Degree in Songwriting at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. She then relocated to Nashville after graduation and recorded her first album “NightLight” in 1999 before heading to New York in 2000.

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