Kevin
Roberts is a multi-talented musician and an aspiring
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, 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.
Recently he has recorded orchestral backing tracks for a
local youth musical in Santa Clarita, directed by Nancy
Horak and he has worked with Grammy-winning
producer/engineer/mixer Jim Scott at PLYRZ Studios in
Valencia. Currently he is attending Cal State University
Northridge as a Music Industry Studies major.