13 Facts About David Singleton

David Singleton was born on 1961 and is an English record producer, audio engineer, record label director, musician, songwriter, author and Internet entrepreneur.

David Singleton is best known as the production and business partner of Robert Fripp of King Crimson.

David Singleton released a solo single in the early 1980s and was part of the 1990s art-pop band Camilla's Little Secret.

David Singleton has collaborated with King Crimson on several albums released during the 1990s and 2000s.

David Singleton was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied philosophy and occasionally wrote and performed his own songs.

David Singleton's aim was to provide a potentially mobile recording service at a much lower cost than a standard studio, and to use this to encourage people and organisations with lower budgets to make recordings.

David Singleton contributed outreach work at Youth Training Schemes encouraging young trainees towards their own careers in music production.

In 1987, David Singleton wrote a set of his own songs with the intent of recording them with a large communal group of Dorset musicians.

In October 1990, Singleton applied to work with art rock guitarist Robert Fripp who needed a live sound engineer at short notice in the middle of a tour with his Guitar Craft ensemble League of Crafty Guitarists.

In 1992 Fripp and David Singleton founded both the Ton Prob production partnership and the record label Discipline Global Mobile, both of which have continued to the present day.

In 1996, David Singleton was responsible for digitally collating, editing, re-arranging and partly re-composing a set of King Crimson live improvisations from their 1995 tour.

David Singleton would follow this up in 2003 with a similar task on The Power to Believe, reworking a Robert Fripp soundscape to produce the album's final track.

In 2001, David Singleton began working under the persona of "The Vicar", an eccentric and imaginary record producer.