1. Janet Robin was born on 1966 and is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, film and television composer, and guitar coach.
18 Facts About Janet Robin
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Janet Robin grew up in North Hollywood, California where she and her older brother Steve began taking acoustic folk guitar lessons at Valley Arts Guitar.
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At Musonia, Janet Robin took electric guitar lessons as the youngest and only female guitar student of Delores's son, Quiet Riot guitarist Randy Rhoads.
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Janet Robin continued taking lessons from Rhoads until he joined Ozzy Osbourne's band as lead guitarist.
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Janet Robin began performing professionally at the age of 16 in the mid-1980s playing guitar in the all-female hard rock band Precious Metal which she joined in February 1984.
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Janet Robin's first gig with Buckingham was a live performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno one week after she joined the band.
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Janet Robin has recorded and released solo albums on her own imprint, Little Sister Records.
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Janet Robin continued to record and release her own material expanding her touring up the West Coast and eventually to the East Coast.
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Janet Robin has co-written songs with several artists including Maia Sharp, Garrison Starr, and Sue Ennis.
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In 2007, Janet Robin began working with producers David Bianco and Steve Baughman on an EP entitled Days of Summer.
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In 2009, Janet Robin met up with producer John Carter Cash to record her album Everything Has Changed.
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Janet Robin raised $16,000 in fan donations to record the album.
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Janet Robin released the album in the US on Little Sister Records in 2012.
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In 2016, Janet Robin again raised fan donations and recorded Take Me As I Am with John Carter Cash as executive producer and Chuck Turner as Producer and Engineer at Cash Cabin in Nashville.
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The String Revolution is a side project started by Janet Robin featuring four international guitar players playing mostly original instrumental pieces of all genres.
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Janet Robin has had songs placed on several TV shows, including One Life to Live, All My Children, The Oprah Winfrey Show and Felicity.
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Janet Robin was the guitar coach for Quentin Tarantino's 2015 film The Hateful Eight.
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Janet Robin taught actress Jennifer Jason Leigh how to play guitar.