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Rose Robbins......bio
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Raised
on a farm in the Pacific Northwest, Rose spent her childhood immersed in
the classical composers, listening for hours to Mozart, Mendelssohn and
Brahms. Her favorite album was “Julian Bream Plays Bach”, and
she learned bits and pieces of Bach Preludes by ear on her classical guitar.
When she was eleven, her family bought a piano, and soon after that, Rose
bought her first record of piano music, a second-hand copy of Mozart’s
C Major Piano Concerto. She learned the whole slow movement by memory, from
listening to the record over and over. Her compositions, during these years,
were strictly classical, string quartets and sonatas that were scribbled
in pencil over any available piece of paper.
In her teens, Rose began to compose songs with words. Her own deep, smoky
voice sounded “wrong” to her - she’d heard that girls
are supposed to sing high – so she contented herself with writing
songs for other girls to sing.
It wasn’t till the age of twenty-three, with close to fifty songs
already written, that Rose performed a song she’d written in public.
The sound of her voice over a microphone stunned her, and her audience’s
immediate response was her confirmation – she was a singer after all!
Currently, Rose lives in Idaho with her family, and has been composing and
performing music throughout the Northwest.
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