Background
Brent was born in Dallas, Texas.
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Brent Black
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New York University; University of Oklahoma. Tisch School of the Arts.
Career
He also has original songs for his albums and some on YouTube, such as "This is the Album You"ve Been Waiting Foreign", "The BrentalFloss Comic Song", and his first song ever, "The Dreamer". He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma. He went on to earn his master"s degree in musical theatre writing at New York University (New York University).
In his time at New York University, he co-wrote a musical with composer Rob Broadhurst called "I’ll Be Damned" which had a limited Office-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City in 2010.
YouTube career Black is best known for adding lyrics to video game music His first "with lyrics" video he made was the title of the NES game, Mega Manitoba 3.
Brent"s website indicates that his stage name "brentalfloss" is always intentionally spelled with lower-case letters. Brent also appears as one of the principal actors in the web series My Life as a Video Game in the role of Menu, a supercomputer Artificial Intelligence Beyond YouTube Brent has also released studio albums.
His first Civil Defense, was released in the Spring of 2010.
lieutenant contains re-recorded versions of every song of his "With Lyrics" series that was released at that time, plus additional Civil Defense-exclusive songs. lieutenant features fellow video game bands The Megas and The Konami Kode, with tracks peaking in the top 100 on iTunes comedy charts worldwide.
He has also released a G-Rated and instrumental version of the album. Brent later set up a fundraising page on his site to try to garner funds for a second Civil Defense, which reached its goal of $4000.
The Civil Defense was completed in March 2012, but was unable to be released until June 2012 due to printing errors.
He released digital downloads for Bits of Maine on June 8, 2012. Brent also appeared in three Nostalgia Critic reviews of Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Moulin Rouge! and Les Miserables, as well as Paw Dugan"s review of Doctor Horrible"s Sing-Along Blog. The official soundtrack is available.
Brent had a webcomic series as well, running from 2012 to 2013 at 200 comics distributed.
In February 2014, Brent released his third studio album, Flossophy.
Membership
In early 2011, he released The Super-Secret European Parliament under the pseudonym "DJ Super Secret", which was revealed to members of his mailing list first, and was released to public afterwards.
