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Musician. He was a versatile artist able to perform in numerous styles such as blues, Gypsy jazz, calypso, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music, was also a linguist and anthropologist. He played mainly resonator guitars produced in the 20s and 30s. During his performances he used often a version of the baritone tricone resonator guitar, who helped to develop in the second half of 90s. Brozman worked as an associate professor in the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, where carried out his research and lecturing about ethnic music in the Oceania islands. He collaborated with musicians from different countries such as India, Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea, thanks to the fact of being constantly on tour in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa. During his career he recorded over 30 albums and won two years in a row the Guitar Player Magazine Award both in the blues category that in that slide guitar. In 1999, Brozman was co-founder of the International Guitar Seminars. From 2000 to 2005 his musical collaborations have consistently placed among the top ten at European level in the World Music Charts. He was found dead in his home at the age of fifty-nine.
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