Robert Andre Glasper was born on April 6,1978 and is an American pianist, record producer, songwriter, and musical arranger.
38 Facts About Robert Glasper
2.
Robert Glasper would appear on the soundtrack for the 2015 drama film Miles Ahead.
3.
Robert Glasper won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for his song "A Letter to the Free" featured in Ava DuVernay's critically hailed documentary, 13th, with Common and Karriem Riggins.
4.
Robert Glasper composed the score for the documentary film The Apollo, and composed the original score for Issa Rae's The Photograph.
5.
Robert Glasper has been an Artist in Residence at some of the most prestigious festivals and institutions worldwide, including the London Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, and the Blue Note Jazz Club.
6.
Robert Glasper took her son with her to club dates rather than leave him with babysitters.
7.
Robert Glasper was the music director at the East Wind Baptist Church, where Glasper first performed in public.
8.
Robert Glasper performed during services at three churches: Baptist, Catholic, and Seventh-day Adventist.
9.
Robert Glasper has said that he first developed his sound in church, where he learned his own way to hear harmony and was inspired to mix church and gospel harmonies with jazz harmonies.
10.
Robert Glasper attended Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas, and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
11.
Robert Glasper was in the second Vail Jazz Workshop in 1997, and went on to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City.
12.
Robert Glasper is an accomplished jazz pianist who was signed to Blue Note Records in his mid-twenties.
13.
Robert Glasper cites Tribe Called Quest as his gateway to hip-hop.
14.
Robert Glasper's playing career was launched in earnest whilst still studying at The New School in New York when he started touring as a sideman with some of the established greats of the scene.
15.
Robert Glasper released his first album, Mood, in 2002 with Fresh Sound New Talent.
16.
Around this time, Robert Glasper recorded with Bilal at Electric Lady Studios for the singer's unreleased but widely leaked second album, Love for Sale.
17.
In 2005, Robert Glasper released his debut on Blue Note Records, Canvas, with what was to become his quintessential piano trio lineup of Vicente Archer on bass and Damion Reid on drums.
18.
In February 2012, Robert Glasper released his fifth and seminal album Black Radio, which featured performances by a lineup of neo-soul and hip-hop artists including Lupe Fiasco, Bilal, Lalah Hathaway, Erykah Badu, and Yasiin Bey.
19.
The core remained the Robert Glasper Experiment, featuring Robert Glasper on keyboards, Derrick Hodge on bass, Mark Colenburg on drums, and Casey Benjamin on vocoder and saxophone.
20.
On June 16,2015, Robert Glasper released Covered, a return to his acoustic piano trio format alongside musicians Damion Reid and Vicente Archer.
21.
In 2015, Robert Glasper served as producer, composer, and arranger for the film Miles Ahead, a biopic documenting the life of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, whom Robert Glasper cites as being one of his major musical influences.
22.
In 2016, Robert Glasper was able to pay further tribute to Miles Davis, releasing Everything's Beautiful on May 27,2016, his first with Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings.
23.
In October 2016, Robert Glasper co-hosted the inaugural Blue Note Cruise alongside Gregory Porter.
24.
In January 2017, Glasper performed with Christina Aguilera at Taking the Stage, the celebratory concert commemorating the opening of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC It was hosted by Dave Chappelle and featured a plethora of other icons of black music and culture including Stevie Wonder, Mary J Blige, Chuck D, and others.
25.
In February 2017, Robert Glasper partnered with Afropunk as Creative and Musical Director for their special Unapologetically Black show, performed at the Apollo Theater.
26.
On September 29,2017 Robert Glasper released Our Point of View with the Blue Note All Stars band, for which he brought together other leading figures of his generation for a special project celebrating the legacy and future of Blue Note Records.
27.
In September 2017, Robert Glasper appeared on a live stream with Esperanza Spalding while recording "Heaven in Pennies" for Spalding's album Exposure, which was released in December 2017.
28.
In 2018 Robert Glasper formed two new supergroups: R+R=Now with Terrace Martin, Derrick Hodge, Taylor McFerrin, Christian Scott, and Justin Tyson; and August Greene with Common and Karriem Riggins accompanied by Burniss Travis and Samora Pinderhughes.
29.
In October 2018 Robert Glasper launched the first of what would become his annual month-long residencies at the Blue Note Jazz Club.
30.
In September 2019 Glasper was Artist in Residence at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
31.
Robert Glasper commemorated the opening of their new building with a two-week series of events and outreach.
32.
The album's name mirrors a tattoo that Robert Glasper got a week before recording.
33.
Robert Glasper closed out 2019 by composing the original music for the documentary The Apollo, which tells the story of the Harlem venue of the same name.
34.
Robert Glasper co-wrote and performed the film's end credit song "Don't Turn Back Now" alongside Ledisi.
35.
In 2020 Robert Glasper continued his work on the big screen by writing the score for the film The Photograph.
36.
In March 2020 March Robert Glasper performed at the March On Washington with Derrick Hodge and George Clinton.
37.
In September 2020 Robert Glasper collaborated with Common to write and perform the ending theme song for the educational Netflix show Bookmarks, in which Black celebrities and artists read children's books by Black authors to spark meaningful conversations about empathy, equality, justice, self-love, and anti-racism.
38.
On January 14,2022, Robert Glasper announced on his Instagram page that on February 25 he would be releasing the third installment in his Black Radio series, entitled Black Radio III.