Chris Robinson's Biography
New recording artist Chris Robinson, a Greensboro, NC-based (DC/Maryland raised) jazz pianist and keyboardist, virtuoso to some and gospel music minister to others, has released his first recording, This Is Chris Robinson.
Chris performs regularly throughout North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina and Maryland. He has performed with national artist such as Fred Wesley, jazz saxophonist Mike Phillips (Hidden Beach Records) and shared the stage with various artists over the years.
Chris Robinson has been performing for over 20 years, and is one of the area's premier musicians. His unique style of music provides an instrumental, inspirational journey with an infusion of jazz, Latin, urban and gospel sounds. This project puts a fresh face on the newly found genre of Inspirational music. This project also introduces up and coming contemporary gospel female duo Divine Intervention, saxophonist extraordinaire Derick Perry, and world traveled mezzo-soprano Candi Burrows. Fellow artists, musicians and announcers alike agree This Is Chris Robinson is not your same old everyday music project.
Chris Robinson has truly combined his deep love for jazz, his love of gospel, Latin and contemporary urban sounds to create a work that will surely make the new artist a force to be reckoned with. On this release, he brings together some strong new material in addition to some familiar favorites and added a strong contemporary twist - one of the most important ingredients in an artist's success, a success Chris Robinson has certainly achieved with the release of this collection.
This Is Chris Robinson was recorded and produced at CJ Music Productions in Greensboro, NC under Chris's own guiding hand. The vocals for If You Love the Lord, The Lord is the One, He Loves the Children performed by singing duo Divine Intervention (Kyndra Dowd & Ruthie Richardson-Robinson) and Negro spiritual In the Mornin' performed by Candi Burrows were recorded by Quentin Q Hill of On Q Productionz in Winston-Salem, NC. Chris Robinson is the mastermind of all the music on this project, with the exception of notorious drummer Calvin "Coon" Napper (Donnie McClurkin; Michah Stampley, Donald Lawrence and many others) on the sure to be hit entitled Wade and Derick Perry playing saxophone on Thanks for My Family, which can be played on gospel, easy listening and jazz radio stations alike.