# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-martin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:50:42.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-martin"
name: "Robert Martin"
slug: "robert-martin"
description: "Robert \"Bobby\" Martin is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Martin sings and plays keyboards, horn, saxophones and other instruments. He is mainly known for collaborating in the 1980s with the musician Frank Zappa, although he is also a session musician, composer of music for cinema, theater, television and advertising, musical director and music teacher. He also directs music production company Think Method Production with Stephen Boyd. He recognizes as musical influences Ray Charles, Stravinsky, Coltrane, Rachmaninoff, Mose Allison, Cannonball Adderley, David \"Fathead\" Newman, Steely Dan, Frank Zappa and Etta James."
tagline: "American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; Frank Zappa collaborator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Martin_2022.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.58
  momentum:             8.043594637370822
  historical:           6.836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/The.Real.Robert.Bobby.Martin"
    handle:    "The.Real.Robert.Bobby.Martin"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551995/"
    handle:    "nm0551995"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://multimartinmusic.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/347284"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A)"
    title: "روبرت مارتن (موسيقي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "روبرت مارتن (موسيقى من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Martin_(Musiker)"
    title: "Robert Martin (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Martin_(singer)"
    title: "Robert Martin (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Martin_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Robert Martin (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/18d575da-4eea-48a7-bfe6-810e8f3075f7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27892945"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3987019"
    title: "Robert Martin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump