Biography
Kevin
Roberts is a
multi-talented musician and producer. Just recently,
Kevin has had the privilege to be part of the cast on a
hit television show called The Office with Steve Carell.
He acted as the keyboardist/musical director in Episode 3
of Season 7. Kevin has also worked as the on-screen
keyboard player on the hit show Glee on Fox.
Kevin started playing the piano at age four and half and
took private lessons with Patricia Shaffner for 13 years.
At age seven and a half he started playing the violin and
took private lessons with Julissa Bozman, a graduate at
University of California, Irvine. He played all
throughout elementary school and junior high in honors
orchestra and in the youth philharmonic at the College of
the Canyons. At the age of nine he was already writing
songs for vocals, piano and guitar and was taking guitar
lessons with Frank Browne who is a graduate of the
University of Miami School of Music. Soon after, he
competed in the World Championship of Performing Arts at
the age of 10. A year later, he started singing with the
Young Vocal Artists of Los Angeles. Directed by Grammy
award winning artist Darlene Koldenhoven, these young
artists were paid to record children songs at a
semi-professional level for companies like Hal Leonard to
be published for educational use. At the early age of
ten, he formed a band with his cousins and he had fun
playing mainly Beatles songs with them. At the age of 12
he met drummer Moses Eder and he was introduced to a
whole new range of bands from the 60’s and 70’s that he
had never been exposed to and they jammed together for
the next two years. During this time, he quickly gained
more knowledge in a variety of styles of music.
As a freshman at Hart High School, Kevin joined the show
choir in order to gain more experience performing on
stage and to meet people who loved to sing and perform as
well. Soon after his sophomore year in high school
started, his parents bought him his first recording
setup. He started recording backing tracks to many of the
songs he was learning and performing in the show choir as
well as experimenting with different recording techniques
and recording cover songs and original songs for fun.
After two years of being in the choir he was offered a
job to play the piano for the show choir band, to be an
accompanist for the show choir and to recording practice
backing tracks for the four show choir groups.
As a junior in high school, Kevin decided to focus more
of his time on studio recording and the piano. He started
taking lessons with a graduate student in jazz piano at
CalArts named Mark Nilan and with David Roitstein,
pianist and composer and the Jazz Program Director at
California Institute of the Arts. At the same time, Kevin
was giving piano lessons to young kids in his
neighborhood. He has recorded orchestral and pop/rock
backing tracks for local productions in Santa Clarita and
he has worked with Grammy-winning producer/engineer/mixer
Jim Scott at PLYRZ Studios in Valencia. About a year ago,
he met Evren Goknar, a top mastering engineer at Capitol
Records, who asked him to play keyboards for his band,
Evil Maria. Kevin is now attending Cal State University
Northridge as a Music Industry Studies major and he is
the keyboardist for Evren Goknar’s band Evil Maria.
Kevin Roberts
Keyboards/Producer/Audio Engineer
Kevin Roberts
Keyboards/Producer/Audio Engineer
Kevin Roberts
Keyboards/Producer/Audio Engineer