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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 "Kool" Bell
Robert "Kool" Bell, also known as Muhammad Bayyan, is an American bass guitarist and songwriter. He co-founded Kool & the Gang in 1964 and helped create hits like "Celebration."
Robert Armani
Robert Armani, real name Robert Woods, is an American techno and house producer and DJ from Chicago's south side, best known for the 1990 track "Circus Bells" and his releases on Dance Mania.
Robert Avellanet
Robert Avellanet is a Puerto Rican singer and actor, a Menudo member from 1988 to 1991 who later built a solo salsa career with the 1999 album Sentir.
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 Cray
Robert Cray (born 1953, Columbus, Georgia) is an American blues guitarist and singer leading the Robert Cray Band since 1974; five-time Grammy winner whose 1986 album Strong Persuader and hit Smoking Gun drove the 1980s blues revival.
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 DeLeo
Robert DeLeo (born 1966, Montclair, New Jersey) is the bassist and principal songwriter of Stone Temple Pilots, also of Talk Show, Army of Anyone, and Delta Deep; solo debut Lessons Learned (2022), known for Motown-influenced lines and an Ampeg VT-22 into Marshall 8x10 rig.
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 Glasper
Robert Glasper (born 1978, Houston, Texas) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and producer known for fusing jazz with hip-hop, R&B, and neo-soul; his Black Radio albums won Grammys for Best R&B Album, and he holds five Grammy wins and an Emmy.
Robert Henke
Robert Henke, who records and performs as Monolake, is a German electronic musician born in 1969 in Munich, best known for founding Monolake and co-creating Ableton Live.
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 Miles
Robert Miles (Roberto Concina, born Fleurier, Switzerland 1969 or 1970) was an Italian dream trance producer whose 1995 piano-driven single "Children" topped European charts and sold millions; albums Dreamland, 23am, Organik; died Ibiza 2017.
Robert Mirabal
Robert Mirabal, also known as Johnny Whitehorse, is a Native American flutist, composer, and instrument maker from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, known for fusing traditional flute music with rock.
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 Plant discography
Robert Plant discography: 11 solo studio albums since 1982 (Pictures at Eleven to Carry Fire), plus the Honeydrippers EP, two Page & Plant albums, and Alison Krauss collaborations Raising Sand and Raise the Roof.
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.
Robert Stigwood
Robert Stigwood (1934–2016), Australian-born impresario, manager of Cream and the Bee Gees, founder of RSO Records, and producer of Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita.
Robert Sweet (musician)
Robert Sweet (Robert Lee Sweet, born 1960, Lynwood, California), American drummer and founding member of Christian metal band Stryper with brother Michael Sweet; nicknamed the Visual Timekeeper for his sideways stage drum setup; Stryper 1983-1992 and 2003-present.