Robert Wilson:  

Life After high school I worked at Chrysler for about 2 years and decided to go to college after being layed off for the last time. Ended up at Bishop College in Dallas for a year then on to Denver with good friends I had met at Bishop. I stayed there a year, working at Gates Rubber Co., then came to Beautiful Southern California where I had a lot of cousins, uncles and aunts. Over the years I gotten jobs at Bank of America, then the Phone Co., then life insurance sales a few years, Fedex. I had been going to Los Angeles City College studying fine arts and taking a couple of singing classes the first few years here. I originally came to L.A. trying to get into art some kind of way but got side tracked into singing quite by accident. I met 2 fellow students at Los Angeles City College singing voice class who became instrumental for that. Fellow classmate Norman Beavers was a piano player(who later played with Lakeside) we would go out working different music venues, me singing, Him on the keys. Another classmate was actually a songwriter at Motowns Jobete Records. I did vocal tracs with him to sell his songs to the real artists there. We recorded right there at Motown. Thats a lot of excitement for a 23 year old kid. Did some nightclub gigs. I eventually gave it all up when I got in church. I couldn't sing gospel the traditional way people sing it or like to hear it so for all those years I only performed on special occasions and the choir. For a short minute I had a little singing group. I actually met and worked with a lot of well known secular musical artist who I was surprised actually went to church. The Emotions, El Debarge, Sheila (E), Vernessa Mitchell of High Inergy who ended up being my best friend for years. I had be...Expand for more