Baseball was T. Graham Brown's first love until an opportunity sing and get paid for it came up. He went to his coach about it.
"All I ever wanted to do was play ball" he told his coach. "But I've got this offer to sing and make some money doing it. He put his hand onto my shoulder and looked into my eyes and said, If I was you I'd go sing."
T. Graham Brown said that was the best advice he'd ever gotten during this exclusive Duke FM interview. Although what that said about his baseball skills is a gray area. But he went on to sing at night, attend the University of Georgia by day, and "make more money than we could spend" at that time.
T. Graham Brown tells the full story of his career path in this full interview with Duke FM's Tom Baldrica.
Singing jingles and demos got T. Graham Brown noticed. Eventually he even became the TV face of Taco Bell. Watch him tell the story...

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