Kid Creole
- Acting
- August 12, 1950 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Thomas August Darnell Browder, aka August Darnell--who goes by the stage name Kid Creole--is an American singer, musician and songwriter. He co-founded Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band with his half-brother Stony Browder Jr., then went on to form and lead Kid Creole and the Coconuts. The latter band, with its trio of backing female singers (dubbed the Coconuts), draw upon musical influences as disparate as salsa, no wave, jazz, disco, pop music and big band. Darnell has written and produced for other artists and bands, such as Machine and Gichy Dan's Beachwood No. 9. He and the Coconuts have also contributed songs to numerous motion picture soundtracks, including "My Male Curiosity" for Against All Odds (1984).
Known for
Filmography
- Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird · Music
- Baba Yaga: Assassins Revenge · Music
- Buckle Up · Self, Music
- Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day · Self
- Mood Indigo · Duke Ellington
- Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 5 · Self
- Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 4 · Self
- Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 3 · Self
- Be Kind Rewind · West Coast Video Employee Passaic
- Downtown '81 · Self
- Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Live In Paris 1985 · Self
- Only You · Self
- Bad Girls · Self
- The Forbidden Dance · Kid Creole
- Identity Crisis · Thrift Shop Man
- New York Stories · Music
- Obsession: A Taste for Fear · Bookmaker
- Bains de Minuit · Self
- Le monde est à vous · Self
- Sacrée soirée · Self
- Kid Creole and the Coconuts: Live in Montreal · Self
- Against All Odds · Kid Creole
- Wetten, dass..? · Self
- Kid Creole and My Coconuts · Self