Member Since: 12/13/2007
Band Website: Under Construction
Band Members: At the tender age of five years old, I remember having the love of music. It was a natural thing for me. It never seemed strange wanting to play a musical instrument, I always knew I wanted to become a musician, which was my biggest childhood passion and desire. My musicial journey and quest began at the church, watching and listening to every musician who played.
Of all the instruments that I saw and heard, the guitar was my instrument of choice, and fortunately the minister of the church was a prolific guitar player himself. For many years I sat and watch from the front pew , committing to memory the sights and sounds of guitar playing Jim singing those inspirational songs which inspired my life in so many ways to this day.
As I became older I began to relize this was a special gift from God, and was a precious treasure He placed within im my life. I knew then I wanted to become a serious musician. So I began to study on my own in the basement of our home imitating the sounds that I heard. It was fun watching myself grow, but it was also lots of hard work, and took a lot of effort and persistence to stay with it knowing that someday it would pay off.
Later at the age of nineteen I left my native city of Cleveland Ohio with that same passions and desires to become a better musician. I went to the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and embarked upon a journey at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. It was great, I learned a lot about the heritage of jazz music, and how it all came about and what it meant to be a serious musician. I studied Miles, Coltrane, Monk, Dizzy, Wes, McCoy, Hurbie, and many others, the list goes on... So today I incorporate all of those influences which I learned from great teachers trying to keep my own idenity as to what and who I am, hoping that all my listeners will enjoy, listening to the outcome of it all.Yours Truly,
Robert Walls
Influences: Elder JW Hayes,
Wes Montgomery,
George Benson,
Johnny Guitar Watson
Sounds Like: Myself
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Record Label: unsigned..
Type of Label: None