Robin Brown was born in 1934 in Oakland, California. Since 1952 he has spent his life singing and playing various musical styles, from classical guitar to American folksongs and traditional flamenco.
 
In the 1960s he took classical guitar training with maestros such as Alirio Diaz, the Italian Siena Master Classes with Andres Segovia, and voice and guitar lessons with Richard Dyer-Bennet, before consecrating himself to flamenco with Jack Buckingham, Rafael Gutiérrez, José Ramon, Mariano Cordoba, Juan Martin, and most recently with Manuel Parejo, Rafael Domingo, and José Galván for flamenco vocals and dancing.
 
In the 1970s, he and Maruja Vargas founded the Del Oro Conservatory for the Classical Arts of Music & Dance in Tempe, Arizona. He performed with North Coast Ballet and Maruja Vargas’s Spanish Dance Co., then with International Dance Theater in Santa Rosa, California, with Clifford dos Reis Jones, and finally with Cuadro Iberico, FlamencoArts Co. and Soniquete José Galván.
 
Today, Brown is music director and manager of the FlamencoArts Co. and school in Santa Rosa with his companion Elena Marlowe; he teaches flamenco guitar, vocals and dance. He is featured in his son Michael Brown’s documentary film My Father, His Flamenco, and I for which he performed in January 2002 at Planète Andalucia in Paris, France, as well as in August, 2004, in “Petenera—a Flamenco Drama in Music and Dance” performed at the Jackson Theater, a production soon to be featured in a ground-breaking 2-hour DVD.