Born into a family of musicians Gary Brown's inevitable musical career began at an early age. By his eleventh birthday Gary was already performing in jazz bands with his two brothers and his father, a jazz trumpeter Wilbert Brown. Gary went on to form his own bands and develop a talent and reputation as a skilled and versatile bassist. While enrolled in San Jose State University's Art/Design program Gary came to realize that music was his true calling and made the decision to make it his life and his career. After leaving school he continued to study privately, with renowned Skip Parnell, a teacher and lecturer from the esteemed Philadelphia Academy of Music.

In the past 15 years Gary has toured the United States, Europe, Japan, Brazil and the Middle East where he has recorded and shared the stage with Flora Purim & Airto, Jeff Beal, Steve Winwood, Narada Michael Walden, Dianne Reeves, Lou Rawls, Ernie Watts, John Lucien, Torninho Horta, Joyce, Alex Acuna, Dori Caymmi, George Duke, Roy Ayres, Lyle Mays, Giovanni Hidalgo, Mike Shrieve, Paul McCandles, Alphonse Mouzon, Andy Narrell, Pete and Sheila (Sheile E.) Escovedo, José Neto Quartet.
As a member of Terra Sul he composed and co-produced on their CD "Kindness of Strangers" (Motown jazz label MOJazz). In addition to the co-writing and arranging Gary also shares a producer credit with drummer Celso Alberti for the recording artist Zaza's ambitious CD "Book of King's".

Gary is one of the three members of Pray for Rain, a film and soundtrack production team. Their credits include film and soundtrack work on Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, Trust me, Zandelle (with Judge Reinhold and Nicholas Cage) and The Linguini Incident (starring David Bowie). Their projects include work with famed keyboardist Bernie Wornell on the movie Car 54 Where Are You? and theme and dramatic underscore for the television series Key West on the Fox network. They continued to compose and underscore music for various projects for mayor cable networks including HBO, Lifetime, Showtime and Cinemax, as well as for major telvision networks ABC, NBC and CBS..

Currently dividing his time performing with Flora Purim & Airto and 3 Thinking Gary continues to compose, perform and produce with various artists and is currently composing music for his first solo project.