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= Brian Crain (Composer) = "This article is about the modern-day composer. For the politician of the same name, see Brian Crain."

Early Life
Brian Crain was born in Hollywood, California in 1969. As a young child, he began to whistle all of the time. "When someone would ask what he was whistling, Brian would usually answer something like, 'I don't know. I just made it up.'" "His father, an award-winning educational filmmaker, and his mother, a prolific and beloved potter," always encouraged Brian to explore music. At the age of 9, his parents purchased a baby grand piano for him, thinking that it would serve as a better medium for his musical talents, but Brian never seemed interested in the piano. When Brian was 10 years old, he took piano lessons, but quickly grew tired of them. He felt that these lessons took away from his new passion: baseball. Even though he wasn't interested in piano, he would continue to whistle his compositions everywhere. Although baseball was his dream, he was always heard whistling his created compositions both on the practice field and during games by his friends.

Occasionally, Brian would sit down at his "nearly-forgotten piano" and improvise with the keys to make the melodies sound just right, same as he did with his whistling. Without knowing it, he was teaching himself how to play on the piano. Also, while practicing the piano, he was teaching himself how to compose on it.

== Discography ==