Brooke “Madame” Mackintosh is a Utah-rooted, San Diego-forged singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, intuitive artist and creator of what she calls Mountain Soul—an organic expression of music, authentic performance, divination and ritual self-care, all shaped by a lifetime of choosing the road less traveled. 

THE MUSIC

Born and raised in Utah, Brooke’s mother claims she has been singing since the day she was born. Her father taught her piano as soon as she could reach the keys, guitar followed, and by fifteen she was writing songs of her own.

At 22, newly divorced and ready to begin anew, Brooke packed everything she could fit into her car—including guitars, her dog, cat and her last $50—and took the I-15 south to San Diego. She adopted the stage name Brooklyn and immersed herself in the city’s thriving songwriter community.

Within a year, she was recording her debut album, Blue Skies Await, with producer Sven-Erik Seaholm. She soon became a familiar presence in the San Diego music scene, performing weekly residencies throughout Pacific Beach and the Gaslamp Quarter while producing and promoting live music of her own.

Her long-running Brooklyn & Friends series brought together local and touring artists and earned support from San Diego television, radio and music media. Her original song “Believe” was featured weekly during the closing credits of a local MyTV13 television program.

Brooke later joined Seaholm’s band, The Wild Truth, before the two formed the duo Seaholm Mackintosh. Their creative partnership ultimately produced Monarchs in 2011—the same year their son was born. The album received a nomination for Best Pop Album at the San Diego Music Awards.

Their home studio, Kitsch & Sync Production, became another creative world entirely. Brooke contributed vocals, songwriting and sound-scaping to numerous projects, including the musical-theater project Time & Away and the dance-lounge collaboration STLA, released in 2013.

Eventually, the mountains called her home.

Returning to Utah with toddler in tow, Brooke found that the musical seeds she had planted years earlier awaited. She established residencies and performances throughout Ogden, Salt Lake City and Park City and continued building a career on both sides of the stage—as songwriter, musician, host and live-show creator.

Her work earned nominations for Best Local Artist at the Indie Ogden Awards and Artist of the Year at the Josie Music Awards in Nashville.

In 2017 and 2018, Brooke stepped into the filmmaking side of entertainment, working behind the scenes on Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone, including as a stand-in for Kelly Reilly.

Her music has taken her beyond the American West as well. In 2022, Brooke joined longtime friend and musical mentor Terence Hansen as Arcana Wild, touring the Netherlands with Dutch artist Jos Van Oost for his record release.

Through the years, Brooke has shared bills and stages with artists and songwriters including Jack Tempchin, Steve Poltz, Erin McCarley, Monty Powell, Maxwell Hughes, Gregory Page, Brad Carter and Sammy Brue, to name a few. Her performances have ranged from intimate listening rooms and luxury resorts to festivals, raceways and large public events throughout the Western United States.

She has performed at venues and events including The Belly Up, Humphreys by the Bay, the San Diego County Fair, La Jolla Art & Wine Festival, Ogden Music Festival, Sundance Film Festival and Park City songwriter events, along with established residencies throughout San Diego and Utah’s mountain communities.

And yet, for all the stages, albums and miles traveled, the heart of Brooke’s work has remained remarkably simple: the song and the people in the room.

AUTHENTIC PERFORMANCE

Known affectionately as a “one-woman human jukebox,” Madame Mackintosh moves easily between guitar, keys, percussion, rich harmonies, audience requests and an extensive repertoire spanning generations and genres. But original music remains at the center of it all. Her catalog includes more than 100 original songs and three released albums, with new music and writing continually underway.

For Madame, authentic performance is not driven by the need to attract attention. It is the honest outward expression of the artistry within—the natural human desire to create, communicate and reveal something true.

Whether that expression reaches one person through a song or moves through an entire audience, its purpose remains the same: genuine connection from artist to witness. The performance is not manufactured around who the artist is expected to be; it is an invitation to encounter who they genuinely are.

This is why no two Madame performances are quite the same. The music, the room and the audience become part of a living exchange—one rooted not merely in spectacle, but in instinct, presence and connection.

DIVINATION

Long before she understood it, Brooke felt a similar calling toward divination.

Drawn to tarot from her formative years, she purchased the first beautiful deck that caught her eye—before she understood why she wanted it or how to read the cards. Her mother, believing tarot to be a dark art, insisted that she give the deck up, but the calling did not disappear.

Years later, after leaving past beliefs behind and opening her soul for her own belief system, someone offered Brooke her first oracle reading and instinctively, she understood the symbolism before the reader could explain them. Sven bought her that very deck and she intuitively began teaching herself while simultaneously studying palmistry and discovering the same natural fluency reading the maps of the soul, drawn on the hands.

What began as curiosity eventually revealed itself as something older. Divination, she came to understand, runs through particular lines of her family—an ancestral gift finding its way forward through her.

For Madame Mackintosh, tarot and palmistry are not about fear or predetermined fortune. They are another form of listening: a way of recognizing patterns, illuminating what lies beneath the surface and helping others reconnect with the wisdom they already carry.

VELVET VELOUR

Velvet Velour grew from Brooke’s lifelong enjoyment of creating her own natural self-care—from moisturizers, face washes and re-mineralizing tooth powders to handcrafted hair care.

In 2026, while researching deeply nourishing ingredients for her own winter-dry, eczema-prone skin, Brooke’s aunt asked her to explore natural care for skin affected by visible veins and circulation concerns. Brooke began recognizing that many of her favorite botanical ingredients could offer more than a beautiful scent or a passing moment of moisture.

She set out to create something that could deeply nourish dry skin while supporting the healthy, radiant appearance that inspired its name.

Legato Glow was born: an everyday, skin-loving oil created to bring moisture, ritual and luminosity into daily care. When winter demanded something richer, Brooke developed Harmony Butter, blending the same cherished ingredients with deeply moisturizing shea butter.

From there, Velvet Velour expanded naturally into Bliss Balm, bath rituals and an all-in-one massage candle that combines warm moisture, touch and ambience.

At its heart, Velvet Velour is not merely a collection of products. It is an invitation to slow down, tend to the body and make self-love a ritual—crafted with thoughtful ingredients and the alchemy of a Mountain Soul.

ONE SOUL. MANY EXPRESSIONS.

Over time, Brooke came to understand Mountain Soul as more than the name of her sound. It is the sound of a soul calling like a river from the mountains to the sea and it runs through everything she creates like the name her mother gave her. 

Music shaped by experience, performance built upon authentic expression, intuitive readings that illuminate the path, and handcrafted rituals that honor the mind, body and spirit.

Music is the voice.

Performance delivers the passion.

Divination offers wisdom.

Velvet Velour is an organic ritual of loving yourself.

The Madame is the songwriter, the storyteller, the musician, the mother, the performer, the intuitive, the alchemist, the producer, the traveler and the woman who has spent nearly two decades creating a life from what comes natural. 

And though hers is the road less traveled, she leads by example and continuously heeds the call of the Mountain Soul.