ALBUM PREVIEW - ROBIN BECK/ “Do You Miss Me"

Label: Frontiers Records	Release date: July 4^th 2005
Cat.#: FR CD 251	Cod: 8024391025123

Tracklisting: 1. Do You Miss Me

- 2. Walk On The Moon - 3. Your Love Is Tough

- 4. The Safest Place (I Wanna Be Strong) - 5. What About Us - 6. I Wanna Hear It From You - 7. Stone By Stone - 8. Find A Little Faith - 9. Coming Back For More

- 10. I Don't Wanna Play That Game Anymore - 11. Takin’ A Ride - 12. Bring It Back.

Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Robin Beck moved to Daytona Beach, Florida at a very young age. “There was very little music in my house while growing up” she recalls. Basically she had no formal vocal training other than standing on the streets with her Afro-American friends singing songs all day long.

She was discovered by a local musician (Alex London) who got Robin her first professional job with Johnny Conklin, a local musician... Robin learned the art of singing standards, before she moved on to another local band and then again before she was finally asked to go out on the road at 18 to sing in a band called Deep South.

Soon after that, Robin landed her first recording contract (for a single entitled “Still In Love”) after being discovered while playing in a local Detroit club.

Back in New York, Robin started to work on different projects including the Broadway musical "Got To Go Disco" and finally started a proper recording career with the release of her first album “Sweet Talk” in 1979.

While living in the Big Apple, she started to become involved in the jingle business and it was during that period that she got to work with some of the greatest musicians in the world to this day. And it was thanks to a jingle that Robin’s name came to prominence in 1988 when the song “First Time” (a Coca-Cola theme tune) became a major hit (scoring a n.1 in the UK charts!) worldwide.

This brought her to a new start in the recording career. The subsequent album “Trouble or Nothin’” featured contribution from such luminaries as Steve Lukather (Toto), Paul Stanley (KISS), Diane Warren and Desmond Child to name a few and is still today regarded as one of the best female AOR records ever!

Robin's follow up album, “Human Instinct”, was released on the D.S.B. label in 1992 and featured once again the cream of the rock musicians (Jeff Porcaro, Kim Bullard, Tim Pierce, Michael Landau, Lee Ritenour, Michael Thompson etc.) and songwriters (Mark Spiro, Journey’s Jonathan Cain, Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson, Sue Shifrin, Glen Burtnik etc.).

Her last solo album “Can’t Get Off” dates back to 1994 on East/West and once again she proved her qualities of fine singer with songs offered by the likes of Clif Magness (Avril Lavigne, Steve Perry), Steve Kipner, Michael Bolton, Ole Evenrude, Marc Jordan.

Robin during the years has also performed with Patty Austin, headlined with Tina Turner and Richard Marx and sung backgrounds of many top artists such as, David Bowie, Michael Bolton, Deep Purple, Cher and many other greats.

Her long awaited return to melodic rock happens finally in 2005 with “Do You Miss Me”, a beautiful piece of melodic rock music with superb original songs offered by Marc Jordan (Kansas, Cher, Amanda Marshall), Amy Sky (Heart), Desmond Child (Bon Jovi, Kiss), Michael Bolton and Chris Pelcer (Peter Cetera, Van Zant) and is destined to please all the fans that have appreciated her most rocking efforts like "Trouble or Nothin'" or "Human Instinct".

Today aside from making records, Robin manages an artist and works alongside husband and producer James Christian of House of Lords fame. Together they make beautiful music and they made a beautiful little girl now 7 years old named Olivia.