MUSICIAN & SONGWRITER
MUSIC PRODUCTION • ORIGINAL SONGS • SOUNDTRACKS • JINGLES & SPOTS
Rob Freeman has spent a lifetime making music. A self-taught pianist, he entertained with an accordion as a young boy and was writing songs prolifically by his early teens. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, Rob was keyboardist/writer with several bands. Over the years his original songs have been featured in movie and television soundtracks and covered by a variety of artists. Today his studio walls are lined with gold and platinum record awards which he earned during successful years as a record producer/recording engineer working with such artists as KISS, Ramones, Blondie, and The Go-Go’s. Recognized for his work with others’ music, Rob is not widely known as an artist himself. Hopefully that’s about to change.
VIGNETTES
VIGNETTES is a collection of original songs mostly written summer 2019, with two late entries: “Aliens Come Down,” which arrived (rather unexpectedly) in spring 2020, and “2020,” written in December of that year in an attempt to sum up a horrific year of global pandemic, personal isolation, and many other tragedies. The album's songs emerged as mini-portraits, each one highlighting some aspect of my life or some thing of special significance to me. They became my vignettes, which in turn inspired the title song.