She is a drummer, percussionist, vocalist and actress
born Brie Berry who has been known by the names Brie Brandt, Brie Howard
and Brie Howard Darling, who became a member of the band Wild Honey around
1965.Having left the band for
a period to have a baby, her daughter is the actress Brandi Brandt, she
came back as their drummer after they had evolved into the successful and
first all-female rock-group Fanny.They signed to Casablanca Records and released what would be their
fifth album, their third had been recorded at Abbey Road Studio in London in
1972 with a cover of The Beatles "Hey Bulldog" and the fourth in 1973 was
produced by Todd Rundgren.They
also changed their image where they would now wear short skirts and corsets.She left the band again after the
album release to get married to the composer James Newton Howard and accompany
him on drums on his 1974 solo album James Newton Howard, and after the
group disbanded she returned for a re-union tour in 1975.In the 1980s she was a member of American Girls but after
they disbanded she turned to modelling and acting and has since appeared in
the movies Android, Tapeheads and The Running Kind
among others.After having got
divorced in the mid-1980s she was a member of the group Boxing Gandhis as
Brie Darling with her new husband. She has appeared with Jimmy Buffett on several
albums throughout the years including Son of a Son of a Sailor, Havana
Daydreamin', Feeding Frenzy and Boats, Beaches, Bars &
Ballads and also Melissa, Help is on the Way and Singin' by
Melissa Manchester, Best of Both Worlds and Live at the Apollo
by Robert Palmer, Rock 'n' Roll Survivors by Fanny, Heat for the Feets
by Lee Garrett, Ringo the 4th by Ringo Starr, the
soundtrack of Arachnophobia and many more.
