BRENT DAVID FRASER
was born into two prominent Scottish-American family trees, Highland “Fraser” and “Noble” on his father’s side, with Lowland “Hodge” and “Tate”, with Dutch “Nieukirk/Newkirk” on his mother’s side. His first forays in entertainment and media were as a child Singer and Violinist, performing Classical music and Fiddle music. He also started in boyhood as a Painter and Poet. He first lived in the Pacific Northwest’s Kitsap County towns of Manchester and Port Orchard, near Bremerton, then on to Bellingham, just over the border from Vancouver, affectionately termed, “The Fraser Country” region of British Columbia, Canada.
His mother guided their home with appreciation for music, literature, poetry and art. As a young student of watercolor and poetry, he presumed he would grow to be a writer, painter, or performing artist of some kind. In his teens, while attending “Sehome High School”, (his Alma Mater) he was urged by schoolmate, now Actor/Musician/Writer, Billy Burke, to join Sehome’s Choir. He began teaching himself guitar, piano, harmonica and dabbling with other instruments. It was then he began formalized songwriting, putting his poetry to melody. His first songwriting influences were his mom’s preferred “real writers”; Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Jim Croce, Don McLean, Woody Guthrie, and Joni Mitchell. His tastes eventually grew to include everything from generic Pop Radio, to Hard Hock, to Disco, to Glam, to Punk, to New-wave, to Tom Waits.
He's a lifetime member of the "Clan Fraser Association for California" established by his family elders in 1961, under Official Charter by the late Simon Fraser 17th Lord Lovat, aka “Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, Chief of Clan Fraser, of Lovat”, and bold WWII “Fraser/Lovat Commandos” Hero. They enjoyed the honorary membership of family friend, Charlton Heston and & family, whose mother was a Fraser, after whom his son, Writer, Director, Fraser Clarke Heston is named. Brent's a Fellow in good standing of “The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland” and a poor student of Gaelic.
"BRENT DAVID FRASER FEATURED THIS MONTH" on "Norma Jean's Radio Shows"
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