Danny Middlebrook (he shortened his name to Brooks in the '80s) was born and raised by a God-fearing father in Toronto, Canada. After a fight with his father over the evils of music, he left home at fifteen and moved into an apartment around the corner from the Colonial Tavern. The management allowed Brooks to watch Taj Majal, Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker and many more blues legends from the upper balcony — just so long as he promised not to drink.
Brooks’ family attended a predominately white church “with a black attitude,” while he was growing up in Toronto, where he was encouraged musically by a lady at church that was the pianist. She took him under her wing and allowed Brooks to bring his guitar to church where she would teach, and encourage him.
Brooks' older brother, Greg, turned him onto Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, and Bobby Blue Bland, and that laid the bedrock for his future writing and vocal stylings.
After years of struggle in the Rock n' Roll trenches of Toronto, Nashville and Los Angeles, addiction to alcohol, speed and heroin, as well as a monstrous spiritual and physical breakdown in the mid-1980s and a life-changing rehabilitation at Toronto's Donwood Institute, Brooks has emerged as a new star in contemporary Gospel music.
Singles
Albums
1990 ...After The Storm (Duke Street) DSR-31064
199? It's A Southern Thing (HIS House)
2000 Righteous (HIS House)
200? Soulsville (HIS House)
200? Rock This House (HIS House)
2007 No Easy Way Out (Rockin' Camel)
Video
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