Brent Burns WINS THREE awards at the first ever Trop Rock Music Awards presented in Key West, FL on October 31, 2008! Burns won "Entertainer of the Year," "CD of the year for his 'Ragtops and Flip Flops'" and a special WAVE award for his humanitarian work through his Brent Burns Charitable Foundation. The awards were presented by the Margarita MAFIA (Musicians, Artists and Fans in Alliance), an organization dedicated to promoting Trop Rock music. Brent Burns was born in Seminole, Oklahoma, and moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1958. While attending high school and community college sports were important, but music was in his blood. Brent soon strapped on an electric guitar and was fronting a rock-n-roll band. Life soon changed when he volunteered for service in Vietnam. Several months after entering combat, Brent was wounded and received the Purple Heart. After a three year recuperation in and out of military hospitals, he returned to his love o...