Robin Lavender was born and raised in central Ohio, where he played in a few area bands over the years. Out of necessity Rob became somewhat of a soundman for these bands (no body else wanted to do it!) Somehow he found himself working in L.A. during the crazy days of disco. This is where he learned the art of recording, participating in many sessions as a drummer / assistant engineer (fetching coffee and wrapping cables for the real engineer) or both. Rob eventually became a full-fledged engineer when one day the engineer failed to show up for a session. (Which really ticked off the producer) The producer asked Rob if he could handle it, and after many assurances that he could indeed, the producer gave him the chance. Since then Rob has gone on to engineer a countless number of sessions in a number of cities across the U.S. and Canada.
During all this Rob also found time to tour occasionally as a drummer with "That Masked Band", "The Deby Dee Show", "J.K. Coltrain", and internationally with "The American Eagle Band".
Rob has also been involved in a couple of business ventures along the way including Eagle Productions in Ohio, Eagle Productions - Canada in Ontario and The Canadian Cabaret Theater Co.
Rob lived in Northern
Ontario for 7 years and worked as chief engineer at Vision Recording
Studio and was also a Managing Director of the Candian Cabaret Theater
Company.
Along
with his wife Solange, Rob now resides in the Dallas, Texas area and
works in artist development with Unicorn
Artists Management and CMG
records Nashville
A FEW TIDBITS
Just some stuff I thought you might find interesting.
Here is a pic of the my 2005
Peterbilt 387 I used to ride a motorcycle (gonna have to get another one some day) I like to go boating.......
(gee notice how I seem to like anything that moves) I Have lived in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Florida, California and Ontario Canada and
Texas................. I have worked as a musician or
soundman in every state in the U.S. except Hawaii (couldn't drive
there) and six of the 13 Provinces of Canada (from Quebec West) (Oh,
and yes there are now 13 Provinces in Canada... Nunivut officially
became a separate territory) This is a picture of my wonderful wife Solange. Who is a booking
agent and artists manager. For those of you who do not know, Solange is a very French name....
and my wife is a French Canadian......... Solange and I met while I was on tour with The American Eagle Band
back in 1992. We married July 3rd, 1993 on the Rainbow Bridge between the U.S. and
Canada at Niagara Falls...... Some of you may have seen the television
coverage or read about us in the newspaper, as there were more
reporters than there were guests..........
Artists Management & Development
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