Motor Coach Industries (MCI) Coach Technician and opera singer Andrew Craig Brown received his first Grammy Award Jan. 26.
Brown is a bass-baritone who earned a master’s degree in music from Yale University in 2012. He won the award as a cast member of the recording of "Picker: Fantastic Mr. Fox,” written by composer Tobias Picker, staged by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and based on the popular Roald Dahl children’s story.
Brown was onstage in Los Angeles to accept his award, an experience he described as “surreal.” But his co-workers were ready for a victory. When he returned to work, he received a cake and another “Grammy” created from bus parts by his fellow technician Pawel Fulat, who presented it at MCI’s very own award celebration.
