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RJD2
RJD2 (Ramble John Krohn, born 1976, Eugene, Oregon) is an American hip-hop producer and DJ, Deadringer (2002) and Mad Men theme "A Beautiful Mine", on label RJ's Electrical Connections.
Rob Bourdon
Rob Bourdon (born 1979, Calabasas, California) is an American drummer, founding member of Linkin Park from 1996 to 2017, known for Hybrid Theory, Meteora, and The Hunting Party; he stepped away before the band's 2024 reunion and was replaced by Colin Brittain.
Rob Halford
Rob Halford, born Robert John Arthur Halford in 1951, is the English singer known as the Metal God, frontman of heavy metal band Judas Priest since 1973.
Rob Pilatus
Rob Pilatus (1965–1998), Munich-born German dancer and singer, was half of Milli Vanilli with Fab Morvan; the duo never sang on Girl You Know It's True, lost the first revoked Grammy, and Pilatus died of an overdose in 1998.
Rob Thomas (musician)
Rob Thomas (Robert Kelly Thomas, b. 1972, Landstuhl, West Germany), American singer-songwriter, frontman and principal songwriter of Matchbox Twenty and co-writer of Santana's 'Smooth'; 80+ million records, three Grammys, six solo albums including All Night Days (2025).
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie (Robert Bartleh Cummings, born 1965) is an American industrial-metal musician and horror filmmaker, former White Zombie frontman, triple-platinum Hellbilly Deluxe solo artist with seven consecutive Billboard top-10 albums, and director of House of 1000 Corpses and Halloween.
Robb Flynn
Robb Flynn (Robert Conrad Flynn, born 1967, born Lawrence Matthew Cardine) is the American vocalist and rhythm guitarist who founded groove/thrash metal band Machine Head in 1991 after stints in Forbidden and Vio-lence.
Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson (Jaime Royal Robertson, 1943–2023), Canadian lead guitarist and principal songwriter of The Band, wrote "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," then scored fourteen Martin Scorsese films.
Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams, English pop singer born 1974 in Stoke-on-Trent, ex-Take That member turned best-selling British solo artist (Angels, Let Me Entertain You, Rock DJ), with 13th album BRITPOP, the 2024 biopic Better Man, and a Britpop stadium tour.
Robbin Crosby
Robbin Crosby (Robb Lantz Crosby, 1959-2002), American guitarist and songwriter, co-founder of glam metal band Ratt; co-wrote "Round and Round," played on four Platinum albums, left in 1991, died of AIDS complications.
Robby Krieger
Robby Krieger (born 1946, Los Angeles) is the Doors' founding guitarist and songwriter of Light My Fire, Touch Me, Love Me Two Times, and Love Her Madly; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1993; flamenco-influenced fingerstyle player still recording and touring with the Soul Savages.
Robby Steinhardt
Robby Steinhardt (Robert Eugene Steinhardt, 1950–2021) was an American rock violinist and singer best known as violinist, co-lead vocalist, and frontman of the progressive rock band Kansas.
Robby Takac
Robby Takac (Robert Carl Takac Jr., born 1964, Buffalo, NY) is bassist, co-vocalist, and co-founder of the Goo Goo Dolls, formed mid-1980s with Johnny Rzeznik; also runs Good Charamel label and Music Is Art festival.
Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman (1925-2012), American songwriter of the Sherman Brothers with Richard Sherman; wrote Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, It's a Small World; two Oscars, Purple Heart veteran.
Robert Calvert
Robert Calvert (1945-1988), South African-born British poet and musician, Hawkwind's resident poet and frontman, co-writer of "Silver Machine," and creator of the satirical 1974 concept album Captain Lockheed & the Starfighters about the F-104 Starfighter.
Robert Del Naja
Robert Del Naja (born 1965), aka 3D, British Bristol artist and founding member of trip-hop band Massive Attack, stencil-graffiti pioneer, whose activism includes Palestine Action protest arrests in 2026 and persistent, denied Banksy rumors.
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen (born 1956, Houston) is a Texas singer-songwriter, Americana pioneer, and Texas Country founder, known for "The Road Goes on Forever," 21 records, a 2022 farewell tour, and a 2026 comeback.
Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp (born 1946, Wimborne Minster, Dorset) is the English guitarist who co-founded and led King Crimson from 1969 to 2021, created Frippertronics and Soundscapes looping, founded Guitar Craft, and co-founded the label Discipline Global Mobile.
Robert Hunter (lyricist)
Robert Hunter (1941-2019), American lyricist and poet, wrote the words for nearly all of Jerry Garcia's Grateful Dead songs from 1967 to 1995 without ever performing onstage, and later co-wrote Bob Dylan's Together Through Life.
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson (1911–1938), Delta blues singer-guitarist from Hazlehurst, Mississippi, recorded 29 songs in 1936–37 sessions in San Antonio and Dallas; his crossroads legend and posthumous reissues shaped blues and rock.
Robert Lamm
Robert William Lamm (born 1944, Brooklyn) is a founding keyboardist, singer, and songwriter of Chicago, writer of "25 or 6 to 4" and "Saturday in the Park," also a solo artist with ten albums including Skinny Boy and Like a Brother.
Robert Lee Jun-fai (李振辉)
Robert Lee Jun-fai (李振輝, born 1948, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong musician, founder of The Thunderbirds, brother of Bruce Lee, and producer of Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010).
Robert Lester Folsom
Robert Lester Folsom, Georgia-born singer-songwriter behind the 1976 private-press album Music and Dreams, reissued by Anthology Recordings in 2010; later archival volumes, new material, and a 2026 50th-anniversary edition with Beach House and Hannah Cohen covers.
Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez (born 1975, New York) is an American songwriter, co-creator of Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, and with wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote Frozen's "Let It Go" and Coco's "Remember Me"; the only double EGOT winner.
Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer (1949–2003) was an English singer-songwriter of Vinegar Joe, the Power Station, and the hits “Addicted to Love” (US number one, 1987 Grammy) and “Simply Irresistible”; not the American music writer of the same name.
Robert Plant
Robert Plant (born 1948), English singer and Led Zeppelin frontman, later solo artist; won 8 Grammys, including Album of the Year with Alison Krauss on Raising Sand (2007); declined a $200m Zeppelin reunion.
Robert Pollard
Robert Pollard (born 1957, Dayton, Ohio), American singer-songwriter, founder and only constant member of indie rock band Guided by Voices; former fourth-grade teacher, writer of over 1,600 songs, also led Boston Spaceships and Circus Devils.
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Robert Randolph and the Family Band is an American funk and soul band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph, active since 2000 and known on the jam-band circuit.
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann was a German Romantic composer and music critic known for piano cycles, art songs, four symphonies, and founding the journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1834.
Robert Smith (musician)
Robert Smith (born 1959) is the English singer, guitarist, and songwriter who founded The Cure in Crawley in 1976 and is its only constant member, known for the dark trilogy through Disintegration (1989), Wish, Songs of a Lost World (2024), and his goth-icon look, while rejecting the goth label.