Kevin Roberts is a multi-talented musician and producer. He started playing the piano at age four and half and took private lessons with Patricia Shaffner for 13 years. At age seven and a half he started playing the violin and took private lessons with Julissa Bozman, a graduate at University of California, Irvine. He played all throughout elementary school and junior high in honors orchestra and in the youth philharmonic at the College of the Canyons. At the age of nine he was already writing songs for vocals, piano and guitar and was taking guitar lessons with Frank Browne who is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Music. Soon after, he competed in the World Championship of Performing Arts at the age of 10. A year later, he started singing with the Young Vocal Artists of Los Angeles. Directed by Grammy award winning artist Darlene Koldenhoven, these young artists were paid to record children songs at a semi-professional level for companies like Hal Leonard to be published for educational use. At the early age of ten, he formed a band with his cousins and he had fun playing mainly Beatles songs with them. At the age of 12 he met drummer Moses Eder and he was introduced to a whole new range of bands from the 60’s and 70’s that he had never been exposed to and they jammed together for the next two years. During this time, he quickly gained more knowledge in a variety of styles of music.

As a freshman at Hart High School, Kevin joined the show choir in order to gain more experience performing on stage and to meet people who loved to sing and perform as well. Soon after his sophomore year in high school started, his parents bought him his first recording setup. He started recording backing tracks to many of the songs he was learning and performing in the show choir as well as experimenting with different recording techniques and recording cover songs and original songs for fun. After two years of being in the choir he was offered a job to play the piano for the show choir band, to be an accompanist for the show choir and to recording practice backing tracks for the four show choir groups.

As a junior in high school, Kevin decided to focus more of his time on studio recording and the piano. He started taking lessons with a graduate student in jazz piano at CalArts named Mark Nilan and with David Roitstein, pianist and composer and the Jazz Program Director at California Institute of the Arts. At the same time, Kevin was giving piano lessons to young kids in his neighborhood. He has recorded orchestral and pop/rock backing tracks for local productions in Santa Clarita and he has worked with Grammy-winning producer/engineer/mixer Jim Scott at PLYRZ Studios in Valencia. About a year ago, he met Evren Goknar, a top mastering engineer at Capitol Records, who asked him to play keyboards for his band, Evil Maria. Currently he is attending Cal State University Northridge as a Music Industry Studies major and he is the keyboardist for the band Evil Maria.

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