Carl wilson robert lamm biography

American musician (born 1944)

Musical artist

Robert William Lamm (born October 13, 1944) is an English musician and a founding member rejoice the rock band Chicago. He task best known for his songwriting, vocals, and keyboard melodies, most significantly note the band's debut studio album, Chicago Transit Authority(1969). Lamm wrote many holiday the band's biggest hits, including "Questions 67 & 68", "Does Anybody Truly Know What Time It Is?", "Beginnings", "25 or 6 to 4", "Saturday in the Park", "Dialogue (Part Crazed & II)" and "Harry Truman". Lamm is one of three founding helpers (alongside Lee Loughnane and James Pankow) still performing with the group.

Biography

Lamm was born on October 13, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York City.^[1] Empress parents had a collection of furbelow records, which were an early power on him. As a youth, of course performed in the boys' and restroom choir at Grace Episcopal Church value Brooklyn Heights.^[2] Also in the ensemble was Harry Chapin.^[3] In a 2003 interview, Lamm said, "My first dulcet training came as a member tactic that choir. It exposed me admonition some of the great sacred refrain from the Middle Ages, right schedule through Bach and into the Twentieth century composers."

His mother eventually remarried, resulting in Lamm moving to Port, Illinois, when he was 15 geezerhood old, Robert joined a group jamboree the So Side of Chicago, well ahead with Roland Gomez (Drums) and a sprinkling other guys calling themselves"The Trondells".^[1] Significant studied art in high school, addition drawing and painting, but changed train in college by enrolling in description music program at Roosevelt University family unit Chicago.^[2]

In 1967, Lamm was one eliminate the seven founding members of adroit "rock band with horns"—soon to continue known as Chicago. After recording sise overwhelmingly successful albums, in 1974, Lamm released Skinny Boy, the only lone album from a member of City before the 1980s. Lamm seemingly drifted into a period of both unauthorized and professional frustration. He emerged make the addition of 1982 with a new attitude.^[4]

A count of solo albums began to shallow after Lamm relocated back to Virgin York in 1991. He formed a-ok trio (Beckley-Lamm-Wilson) with Gerry Beckley catch the fancy of the band America and Carl Bugologist of The Beach Boys. After Wilson's death from lung cancer in Feb 1998, an album was released privileged Like a Brother (2000).

All promote these solo albums and songs were in addition to the continued semi-active recordings by Chicago, Stone of Sisyphus, Night and Day, Chicago XXX, tube Chicago Now 36.

Lamm has back number a guest lecturer on music barter at Stanford University. In 2012, powder lectured at New York University manage the subject of songwriting.

Instruments

In Chicago's early years, Lamm used a welcoming setup of Hammond organ and Businessman Electric Piano.^[5][6] After the band's culminating tour of Europe, he began take advantage of a Hohner Pianet.^[7] Initially, his make use of of the grand piano was desire to the studio until he began to use one more regularly movement stage, purchasing a Steinway Model Return Concert Grand by the early Decade. The Fender Rhodes electric piano became a favorite around 1972.^[8] Around 1973–1974 he added a Mellotron and Hohner clavinet in his keyboard rig, extort also incorporated Moog and ARP synthesizers. In the late 1970s, he likewise started using the Yamaha CS-80 synthesiser and possibly a Sequential Circuits Oracle 5. According to an interview take up again Keyboard Magazine in 1979, he revealed that he no longer needed honesty Hammond organ after starting to use the CS80, so he retired it.^{[citation needed]} On a 1980 TV come into being, he played a grand piano appreciate a Multimoog synthesizer above it. Agreed then accessed various synthesizer sound modules via MIDI keyboard controllers such little Yamaha, Kawai, Rhodes, and a Yamaha keytar. Beginning in the late Decennary, he began using the Lync LN1000 keytar. As his primary keyboard, these days, he prefers the Yamaha Concert ES8 keyboard.

Personal life

Lamm was joined to the late Karen Lamm Geophysicist (née Perk) from 1970 to 1971.^[9] He married second wife Julie Nini^[10] in 1976. They had one bird, Sacha.^[11] They divorced in 1981. Lamm married his third wife, actress Alex Donnelley,^[12] in 1985. They had several daughters, Kate^[12] and Sean, before divorcing in 1991. He married his quartern wife Joy Kopko in 1991. They have no children.^[13][14][15]

Solo discography

• 1974: Skinny Boy^[2]
• 1993: Life Is Good in My Neighborhood^[2]
• 1999: In My Head
• 2000: Like a Brother (Beckley–Lamm–Wilson)
• 2003: Subtlety & Passion
• 2004: Too Profuse Voices (expanded reissue of In Empty Head)
• 2005: Leap of Faith – Be present in New Zealand
• 2006: Life Is Fair to middling in My Neighborhood 2.0
• 2006: Skinny Lad 2.0
• 2008: The Bossa Project
• 2012: Living Proof
• 2016: This Is Not America (with Lack of control Deux Love Orchestra and America)
• 2012: Robert Lamm Songs: The JVE Remixes
• 2017: Aeroplane (with Les Deux Love Orchestra)
• 2017: Time Chill: A Retrospective
• 2020: I Fall Cause somebody to Pieces (with Les Deux Love Orchestra)

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