5 Facts About Dan Brown’s Surprising Music Career

Famous for his cult classics, Angels & Demons, and The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown has mastered the art of suspense. His thrillers take readers on a crazy roller coaster ride where deceit, lies and mystery rule. There is a side of Brown, however, that you probably didn’t know about. His music career. Here are some fun facts about it that indirectly led him to his writing career:

1. He tried his shot at a music career for a while after he graduated from college. In fact, he self-released a children’s cassette tape called “SynthAnimals”, following his mother’s musical footsteps.

2. After “SynthAnimals”, Brown decided to form his own record company called Dalliance. He self-produced a CD titled “Perspective”, aimed for an adult audience due to its mature content. Namely, a song about phone sex.

3. After the unsuccessful release of his two first albums, Brown decided to move to Hollywood to give it his last shot at as a singer-songwriter. He ended up joining the National Academy of Songwriters, where he met his wife, Blythe Newlon.

4. Brown released another CD titled “Angel & Demons”, which he would later use as the title of his novel Angels & Demons.

5. Needless to say, his music career didn’t take off, but he found a new passion in writing thrillers, inspired by reading Sidney Sheldon's novel, The Doomsday Conspiracy, while on vacation in Tahiti with his wife.

Now, Dan Brown is one of the highest selling authors of all time, considering he’s only written 7 novels, with well over 200 million books sold. Typically, highest selling novelists have written numerous books, but that not always the case. Find his most popular classic, The Da Vinci Code, in our online library www.zonegem.com, along with other cult classics you’ll want to reread over and over again!