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Robert Gasper Biography

Robert Gasper is one of the most popular and richest Songwriter who was born on April 5, 1978 in Houston, Texas, United States. Although he is best known for his Grammy-winning R&B record Black Radio, the jazz pianist and music producer recorded many other albums on Blue Note’s label including Canvas, In My Element and Double-Booked.

He has toured with Erykah badu, KanyeWest, and other well-known musicians.

Glasper attended Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas, and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts . He 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. At the New School, Glasper met neo-soul singer Bilal Oliver. They began performing and recording together, which led to associations with a variety of hip-hop and R&B artists parallel to Glasper’s emerging jazz career.

Glasper’s first album, Mood, was released by Fresh Sound New Talent in 2004, after the pianist’s stints playing in bands with guitarists Russell Malone and Mark Whitfield, bassist Christian McBride, and trumpeters Terence Blanchard and Roy Hargrove. The album features six original compositions by Glasper alongside versions of the jazz standards “Blue Skies”, “Alone Together”, and Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage”. Glasper has said that his arrangement of the Hancock tune was inspired by the Radiohead song “Everything in Its Right Place”. Mood is mainly a piano trio recording, with Bob Hurst on bass and Damion Reid on drums. Two tracks feature vocalist Bilal, two others adding Russell Malone, and saxophonists John Ellis and Marcus Strickland.

He was raised in Sugarland Texas. His mother Kim Yvette Glasper was a professional singer of blues and jazz.

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Glasper’s 2009 album Double-Booked is divided between songs performed by Glasper in an acoustic piano trio and funk-influenced tracks played on electric instruments, such as the Fender Rhodes and the vocoder (used on a version of Hancock’s “Butterfly”). The album features guest vocals and spoken-word appearances by Bilal and Mos Def. Bilal received a 2010 Grammy Award nomination for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for the track “All Matter”.

Robert Gasper Net Worth

Robert Gasper is one of the richest Songwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Gasper's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 2002, he recorded his first album, Mood. He studied jazz and contemporary music at The New School in New York City around this time.

His work with The Robert Glasper Trio as well as The Robert Glasper Experiment is what makes him famous.

Robert Andre Glasper (born April 5, 1978) is an American pianist and record producer. He has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards and has won three Grammys and one Emmy Award. His 2012 album Black Radio won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 55th Grammy Awards. His 2014 album Black Radio 2 was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 56th Grammy Awards. The song “These Walls”, on which Glasper plays keys, from Kendrick Lamar’s album To Pimp A Butterfly won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 57th Grammy Awards. The soundtrack for the film Miles Ahead, for which Glasper was a producer, won Best Soundtrack Compilation at the 58th Grammy Awards. The song “Letter to the Free”, written with Common for the Ava DuVernay documentary 13th, won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.

Glasper has worked with Bilal and Mos Def as musical director, Q-Tip (The Renaissance), Kanye West (Late Registration), Meshell Ndegeocello (The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams), J Dilla, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Jay-Z, Talib Kweli, Common, Slum Village, and Maxwell, with whom he toured extensively on 2009’s BLACKsummers’night tour.

In February 2012, Glasper released Black Radio, which featured performances by many neo-soul and hip hop artists including Lupe Fiasco, Bilal, Lalah Hathaway and Yasiin Bey. Black Radio laid out a new paradigm for creative music, reaching beyond entrenched genre boundaries to create a singular vision that drew from all reaches of contemporary black music and beyond. The album was met with both commercial success (a #10 debut on Billboard’s Top Current Albums chart) and wide acclaim, with Rolling Stone declaring “Glasper heads down the fraught path of hip-hop jazz and gets it right,” adding that “with music this smart and inviting, the implied diss of mainstream doesn’t feel like sour grapes; it feels like a blueprint forward.” The album won the 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best R&B Album. In November 2012 Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP was released with five remixed tracks from the prior album, including remixes by Questlove, Solange, Georgia Muldrow, Pete Rock and 9th Wonder.

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Blue Note Records released Canvas, Glasper’s major-label debut, in 2005. The album features nine original songs and again a version of a Hancock composition, “Riot”. Glasper plays the Fender Rhodes electric piano on three tracks, and Bilal sings on two. In My Element, released in 2006, includes songs written in honor of Glasper’s mother (“Tribute”) and hip-hop producer J Dilla (“J Dillalude”). The pianist also revisits Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage”, which segues into a version of “Everything in Its Right Place”, and quotes Duke Ellington’s “Fleurette Africaine”.

On October 29, 2013, Glasper released Black Radio 2, another genre-defying effort that took the Black Radio blueprint and built to even greater heights. The core remained the Experiment, featuring Robert Glasper on keyboards, Derrick Hodge on bass, Mark Colenburg on drums, and Casey Benjamin on vocoder and saxophone. Providing the vocals throughout included Common, Brandy, Jill Scott, Marsha Ambrosius, Anthony Hamilton, Faith Evans, Norah Jones, Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco, Emeli Sandé and Erykah Badu on the stella album highlight afro blue. Lalah Hathaway and Malcolm-Jamal Warner were featured on a cover of Steve Wonder’s “Jesus Children of America”, which was dedicated to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings and won the GRAMMY for Best Traditional R&B Performance in 2015.

Who is Robert Gasper Dating?

According to our records, Robert Gasper married to Angelika Beener. As of December 1, 2023, Robert Gasper’s is not dating anyone.

“I’m obviously influenced by Miles Davis – even just the psyche of how he thinks about music…how he moves through, and always wanted to reflect the times he’s in. That’s what I’m doing now. He opened that door.”

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Glasper served as producer, composer, and arranger for the 2015 film Miles Ahead, a biopic documenting the life of legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, whom Glasper cites as being one of his major musical influences. The soundtrack primarily consists of arrangements and interpretations of some of Davis’ most well-known compositions, with the exception of a few tunes written by Glasper himself.

What style of jazz is Robert Glasper?

Who is Robert Glasper's wife?

Angelika Beener

Who is Glasper drummer?

Colenburg is a Grammy Award Nominee for “Best R&B Album” for Robert Glasper Experiment, Black Radio II and Grammy Award-winning drummer for “Best Traditional R&B Performance” on “Jesus Children” with Robert Glasper Experiment, Lalah Hathaway, Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

What keyboard does Glasper use?

For live shows, Glasper uses a Motif XF as his primary piano sound. “My whole career has been about acoustic piano,” he says, “and the Motif XF definitely gets close to that. It has the best piano sound of any keyboard, and the touch feels natural.

What genre of music is Robert Glasper?

R&B/Soul

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