Real name: Brian Cowieson

Effective period / Period of releases: 1989

Brian Island is a Canadian bass player and vocalist. Island was part of the Canadian AOR / synthpop band Prototype which an album in 1983 and had a hit with the song Video Kids Brian was born in West Lothian Scotland and when he was a child moved to Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. In High School after several years of teaching himself guitar, learning and writing songs did he take the leap and decide to start playing out. He traveled as a solo act playing folk music until he met up with Robert Bartlett and Graham Jones. They formed the Winnipeg based band Bootleg, playing bars and eventually releasing a single “Queen of Hearts". From there he played and sang with several other bands such as Prototype releasing top 40 songs "Video Kids", "Sorry" and the band IO. After several years playing and working as a studio vocal arranger and bass player he released a self titled solo Album in 1989.