Robert Blake C
Instruments: Voice
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Blues, Folk, Country, R&b, Gospel, Musical Theater, Opera, Funk, Electronic, Showtunes, Spirituals, Bossa Nova, Soul, Punk, Avant-Garde

Blake has spent most of his life on stage, in the studio or behind the scenes assisting singers to experience performance. He got his start as a stage actor and then worked his way to Music Theatre and performing locally in original bands. At 17 years old he found his first singing teacher and began his training in Art songs, Arias, and Classical Music Theatre. His fascination for singing in different languages led him to Germany where he worked in Cabaret, Singspiel and Operetta with the Theaterhof Humbach. In between performances he started an original Country Western band in Seattle Wa. In Brazil Blake appeared regularly with the Symphonic Orchestra of Belo Horizonte and the Orchestra of UFMG in Ouro Preto as a soloist in Operas, Symphony’s, and recordings of Sacred Music. It was in Brazil where he first started teaching contemporary singing at the suggestion of his former vocal coach Marconi Araújo. Blake came back to California in 2008 where he has been active as a vocal coach, hobbyist songwriter, student and singer. He has coached thousands of singers in the styles of Rock, Pop, Southern Soul, Country Music and Musical Theatre. It is his passion to assist singers in learning the art of songwriting and gaining their full expression through their own music. Blake is a trained Actor and Classically trained Singer. He studied Acting at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and studied singing with Nicholas Di Virgilio at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.