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Thievery Corpration vocalist commits suicide

Breaking News: Music professor commits suicide
By Ryan Holeywell

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.

Music professor Pam Bricker, who was a part of the University's jazz
department for five years, took her own life last weekend, an official
from the Maryland Medical Examiner's office said Wednesday.

On Sunday night, one of her band mates called her ex-husband, Gareth
Branwyn, to say that she did not show up to a scheduled performance.
Branwyn called the police immediately, he said, because she never
missed a show. She was pronounced dead at 10:35 a.m. Monday by the
Maryland Medical Examiner's Office.

"She could be on her deathbed with the flu and she would take cold
medicine and go to the gig," Branwyn said. "As far as she was
concerned you just don't miss jobs."

Branwyn, who was Bricker's husband for 22 years before they split up
two years ago, said she was a caring person filled with love for the
people in her life.

"She was an extraordinary, sweet person and really did have a great
love for people and all of the people around her," he said. "She was
very devoted and loving to the people that meant a lot to her life,
and there were a lot of those people."

Bricker was as a part-time faculty member in the music department
since 2000, said Tracy Schario, GW's director of Media Relations.

"She was extremely well liked by students and faculty, and was an
extremely well respected performer and teacher," Schario said.

Bricker sang with the faculty jazz combo and taught jazz voice,
Schario said. Sophomore Corey Brekher said he has attended nearly
every jam session since he came to GW and that Bricker left an impact
on him after going to his first concert.

"I was pretty blown away not only by her vocals but her musical
abilities - how she sang and moved, and her encyclopedic knowledge of
all types of music," Brekher said.

Well known on the local D.C. jazz scene, Bricker was a 15-time nominee
for the Washington Area Music Association's annual award, according to
her Web site biography.

"All these musicians really respected her, not only as a singer, but
as a musician," Branwyn said. "That's one of the things that really
strikes me about her. She had an unbelievable devotion to the
professionalism about what she did."

Bricker was a vocalist in the band Thievery Corporation, appearing on
its first three albums. She performed vocals for the group's song
"Lebanese Blonde," which was featured on the Grammy award-winning
soundtrack to the movie "Garden State."

Branwyn said Bricker had a strong command of vocals, noting that "her
understanding of rhythm and timing was just impeccable." Both Branwyn
and Brekher said she seemed most comfortable when she was performing.

"It really was her home, and in those songs is where she really was
alive and most comfortable," he said.

Schario said the University Counseling Center has been working with
students and faculty in the music department.

Roy Gunther, chair of the music department, said Bricker was popular
and cared deeply about her students.

"She was very popular for people to listen to and she was popular with
students," Gunther said. "She was a fine singer ... and showed how
much she cared about students and their development."

Gunther explained that as a jazz voice instructor, Bricker didn't
teach voice in the "technical" sense; she taught students how to use
their existing skills in the jazz realm and showed them how
personality should come through in their music.

Bricker, who sang with the faculty jazz combo as part of the popular
Friday jazz jam sessions, related particularly well to the faculty in
the jazz and voice areas, Gunther said.

In a statement, University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said
the community would remember Bricker fondly.

"Pam will be remembered for her talents, generosity and ability to
communicate through song," Trachtenberg wrote.

ESL Music, Thievery Corporation's record label, released a statement
late Wednesday afternoon that highlighted her talents and personality.

"Her classy, easy-going nature, professionalism, and her distinct,
beautiful voice will be eternally missed," the statement read. "Music
fans from D.C. to Istanbul and everywhere in between mourn her loss,
and we mourn with you."

Bricker's skills were unmatched in the D.C. jazz community, and she
subscribed to the idea that "a vocalist should be an instrument and
act like one," Branwyn said. He said many of the city's leading female
jazz vocalists were her students and said she took pride in teaching.
Though Bricker was battling depression, she was still able to do her
job and teach students, even through her worst times, Branwyn said.

"She's been struggling with depression; even in the midst of the worst
of that, she would say, 'Well I gotta go, I got a student.' She never
stopped seeing students even in middle of recent struggles," Branwyn
said.

Details about a funeral or memorial service have not been formulated,
Khalil Ghannam, a music department executive aid, wrote in a music
department listserv e-mail sent out Wednesday. On Friday, there will
be further faculty and student sessions with Counseling Center
representatives in Phillips Hall room B120 at noon.
 
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