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Biography
 Inspired
by groups such as Gold City, The Greens, Karen Peck and New River as
well as male soloist Carroll Roberson, Robert’s entry into Southern
Gospel Music was not planned. Praise God He is in control and leads
us to where He wants us to be.
While having sang in a choir in the 4th and 5th grades while
attending Catholic school, Robert didn’t sing again until attending
a small Baptist church in Lawrenceville, GA some 30 years later.
While in that choir Robert was asked to sing lead on a song backed
by the choir. Robert would not get out in front but insisted on
staying in the choir while singing. With sweaty palms he made it
through. After a few times of singing the lead in this fashion the
choir director was finally able to get Robert out front. It wasn’t
long before he was singing often and many of The Greens or Carroll
Roberson songs.
Robert, while in the military was invited to attend church one
Sunday by a fellow sailor. Within weeks, Robert walked the aisle at
a small Baptist church in Alameda, CA. As it turned out, this was
the first step in Robert learning to serve the Lord and responding
to His call upon Robert’s life. Today, Robert is so thankful to that
one person who was following God’s will and invited him to church.
After being released from military service in 1977, Robert went back
home to New Jersey and rarely went to church. Over the following
years many questions without answers would creep into Robert’s life.
In 1991, after relocating to Georgia from New Jersey, and, once
again by the invite of someone obeying Gods will, Robert started to
attend a small Baptist church in Lawrenceville, Georgia. After a few
years in attendance and some 21 years after walking the aisle in
Alameda, California, Robert really came to know the Lord Jesus
Christ, as his personal Lord and Savior.
 After
that night in 1995, many things have happened in Robert’s life. As
Robert would learn, it was the Lord guiding his life in accordance
with His plans for him. Hearing and responding to the Lord’s calling
into ministry was something Robert had never expected. But within
six months of accepting Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, Robert
heard and answered the calling and entered the ministry to sing the
Lord’s praises.
The Lord has taken Robert over many very bumpy roads that have left
Robert with a stronger faith each time. Early in 2004, Robert fell
ill with throat and sinus problems which lingered for a full year.
From March 2005 to August 2005, Robert endured four throat
procedures and a sinus procedure. Unable to sing Robert took on a
voice coach, who helped not only to restore his voice, but increased
his range from that of a baritone to a second tenor.
Robert, strong and steady in health again, was about to go through
the hardest time of his life in 2007. In February 2007, Robert was
informed that he had prostate cancer. After surgery in March of
2007, Robert developed complications from surgery and was rushed
back to the hospital. Multiple blood clots had passed through his
heart in the early morning hours of March 31st, 2007 and partially
collapsed his right lung. This was certainly bad news for a singer.
After a two week stay in the hospital, Robert was back home working
on getting his strength and air back. Doctors told Robert that it
would take about three years before he would have all his air back.
With less air and less than two months later, Robert was singing
again-- just allowing God to lead as he always did.
Through the blessings of our Lord, Robert has gained recognition
from peers and supporters alike. Robert has been nominated for the
2008, and 2009 Sunrise Award, which is a Diamond Award given to an
up and coming artist or group.
Robert’s love for the Lord and for our country will always be
evident when he sings. Being a Viet Nam vet Robert is proud to be a
flag waving American Christian.
Only God….can inspire a message through song and Only God can
inspire the person who is singing that song. Robert has so been
inspired by GOD.
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