Rob Seals

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Rob Seals began writing songs at age 10 for his imaginary band Lightning. He played "lead trumpet," and his two best friends played "rhythm trumpet." Think Tower of Power meets Romper Room. Fortunately no recordings exist. Currently a full-time singer/songwriter and producer based in Los Angeles, California, Rob writes and performs songs that set intimate lyrical concerns against strong pop-rock grooves. Listeners have described his literate, catchy sound as Paul Simon meets Dave Matthews. Rob finds singing while playing guitar easier than singing while playing trumpet. Born and raised in Chattanooga, TN with an architect father and a social worker mother, Rob grew up in a household that championed creativity and modeled service. A former high school English teacher and track coach with an M.F.A. in poetry writing, twice a year Seals visits schools and colleges coast to coast as Artist in Residence working to empower students with a profound sense of their unique creativity and teach them skills to access that creativity. He taught songwriting from 2004-2007 at the Seth Riggs Summer Vocal Program in Los Angeles and currently is the Head of the Songwriting Department at The Songwriting School of Los Angeles. He works privately as songwriting coach to a select number of recording artists and aspiring artists alike.Rob brings this background as teacher and motivator, a lifetime of directed daydreaming, and a lifelong love of music to his work as producer. Rob helps refine artists' songwriting and arrangements while drawing upon a talented call list of friends to bring the songs to life in the studio: Sean Hurley (John Mayer, Vertical Horizon), Ryan Brown (Jesse McCartney), Eric Heywood (Son Volt, Ray LaMontagne), Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews, Bela Fleck), Billy Hawn (Jason Reeves, Charlotte Martin), Sheldon Gomberg (Ryan Adams), Brandon Bush (Sugarland, Train), Billy Hawn (Charlotte Martin), Craig MacIntyre (Josh Groban, Colbie Caillat)), David Henry (Josh Rouse), Derek Jones (Nickel Creek), Beth Balmer (Tyler Hilton), Dale Baker (Sixpence), Kat Bode (eastmountainsouth), Ed Toth (Doobie Brothers), Justin Rosolino (Matt Wertz), legedary pedal steel whiz Greg Liesz (Dixie Chicks, kd lang.), and others. Rob is honored to have written or produced tracks for and with talented indie artists as diverse and original as Allie Moss (Ingrid Michaelson), Claire Holley (Yep Roc Records), MC Lars (Nettwerk Management), Lucy Hale (American Idol Junior Winner), Kyle Martin (the Piano Man from the touring Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp show by that name), Steven Jackson, Dave Potts, and Jon Rajewski, to name a few. Projects Rob has co-written, produced, and mixed have appeared on television shows like ABC's Men in Trees, E!'s Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and MTV's The Real World, Fox Sports, and numerous cable programs; feature films like 2009's All Roads Lead Home, documentaries like Dave Matthews Band: Plugging the Gap, and on national radio programming like NPR. Projects, songs, or artists Rob has produced have been nominated for or won Los Angeles Music Awards every full year he has lived in the city.



When he's not making music for and with other artists, Rob manages to squeeze out a solo record roughly every summer Olympics. In 2004 Rob released wishlisting, a collection of power-pop and acoustic soundscapes that explore loves alternately celebratory and solitary moments. The single "A Good Day" earned Best College Rock Song Nomination in the 2006 Just Plain Folks Music Awards. Rob feels fortunate to have used some of his talented friends on the project, and the supporting cast of players reads like a college radio super-group. Seals produced, engineered, and mixed the record WQFS 90.9 FM Guilford College Radio hails as a beautifully polished gem.



Rob's debut solo CD, A Revolution of One, was named Male Singer/Songwriter Album of the Year 2001 by Just Plain Folks and earned him the North Carolina Arts Council Songwriters and Composers Fellowship for 2002. The song "A Few Repairs" aired nationally on NPR's Car Talk