He is well known for his almost 30 years as bass player with Renee Geyer, beginning with the great soul band Mother Earth and many years on the road were dedicated to Kevin Borich Express.
Along the way Harry has been in too many band line-ups to recall them all: highlights would be, Tommy Emmanuel, Barry Leef Band, Jimmy Barnes, Marcia Hines, a cherished gig with the great Joe Walsh, Billy Thorpe, House Band for the hugely successful Long Way To The Top concert series with many incredible artists, including Max Merritt, Dinah Lee, Normie Rowe, Doug Parkinson; Leo Sayer Band, Russell Morris, Brian Cadd, Ross Wilson, Phil Emmanuel and Irwin Thomas on the Let It Be Tour.
The Harry Brus Band features the honey-vocals of Eric Rasmussen; Chris Kamzela on guitar; Calvin Welch on drums and Hammond King Sam Boyd, all powered along with the ever funky Harry Brus laying down solid bass grooves.
Today Victor plays at fine jazz and blues venues across Sydney solo or joining 2 of his sons playing as the Martinez trio.
Victor was born in Santiago Chile in 1947 studying under German Acevedo. In 1966 he continued study under Eulogio Davalos at which time he gave his first complete solo concert. Victor presided as president of the Chilean Classical Guitar society and performed extensive tours of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil from 1966-1989.
In 1989 Victor moved his family to Australia & in 2008 he performed 26 concerts in Japan.
Victor has played with and opened for some of the other great names in music including Santana, Gypsy Kings, Ozomatli, Michael Franti (Spearhead), Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunts Band ( Russell Crowe), Amici, Buena Vista Social Club, Anthony Callea , Richard Clapton, The Beach Boys, Lulo, Blind Boys of Alabama, Human Nature, Machine gun Fellatio, Brian Ferry, Jackson Brown, Jenny Morris, George Benson, Bic Runga, Mental as anything , Wendy Mathews, Jimmy Barnes, Diesel, Deni Hines, Guy Sebastian. Trombone Shortie, Taj Mahal, The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, Prinnie Stevens, Joan Armatrading.
With his sons Andro and Dauno Victor has performed at the Sydney Opera House, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, TV 9, Carnivale, Sydney Town Hall, Parliament House, Seymour Centre, the 2000 Olympic & Paralympic Games , The Basement, Star City, etc.
With a debut album that landed in the top ten of the Australian Blues and Roots Charts and spent six months in the top twenty five, Bonnie Kay and the Bonafides have exploded onto the Australian Blues and Roots scene, performing at major festivals around the country.
Bonnie Kay, a contemporary American singer/songwriter from Philly uses acoustic, finger-picking, slide-guitar techniques to deliver her own red-hot, soulful, sassy and sexy sound.
Her Bonafide companions? Add Wayne Rigby on saxophone and flute, Catherine Golden on double bass, Davo Fester on drums, Loiuse Horwood on trumpet and Hilary Geddes on electric guitar and you've got a Bonafide Band with a capital B. That, there, is the triple truth, Ruth!