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Robby Monroe

Robert Monrrow Spurgeon was born November 13th 1995, is an unsigned American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Born in North Philadelphia hospital Einstein Medical Center. He was partly raised all over Philly and in a small township named Bensalem. Throughout his younger years, Robby did some musicals(where he had leading roles) and just sang for fun with his cousin. As the high schools came about, Robby had written his first remix album called Perfectly Human. It was a very low budget mixtape with low quality sound, but chalk full of potential. For it being his first time putting anything out, the mixtape did well in his high school. By the time he graduated he had written two more remix albums and starting putting them out. One called Have A Seat and the other called A Wise Guy Dwelling In Eleven Shades Of Robby's Metamorphosis. Those next two remix albums very of the same low quality sound, but getting better in writing and vocal ability. By the time he started recording his fourth remix album, he got a chance to use a computer program called Audacity and that really started to get him noticed. In addition to the remix music, Robby did only a few cover songs back in 2017, but each and every cover song he did gained him more and more notice. Radio host, Djs, online magazines, music article outlets, and even other up and coming artist were all working with Robby and building his name up. Currently, Robby Monroe is working on his fifth remix album, putting out an Original EP, and officially recording an album.

Early Life

Robby Monroe was born in North Philly but grew up in the Northeast. He grew up in a the church. He went and still goes to a North Philly church called Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ. Hebrew Israelite is what he sees himself and has always been apart of everything he has done and is doing. Robby went to Henry W. Lawton Elementary school until about the middle of fifth grade then went to Samuel K. Faust Elementary school. In Philly, Robby was notably know as a small, shy, and overly obedient kid. Always followed the rules, never got in trouble, did very well in school. Before switching schools, Robby was awarded about 5 academic awards. By the time he switched school and was in the Bensalem school district system, his academic achievements had doubled the rest of his elementary career and tripled in middle school, ending his middle school career with straight A's. He was a model By the time he was in high school, his intelligence preceded him so well, that his 9th grade year he was in advance classes.

Although, Robby's school life seemed to be perfect with him balancing a high GPA and popularity, his home-life couldn't of been more opposite. Parents Robert Spurgeon Sir., and Sandra Eubanks Spurgeon, had a rocky relationship that trickled down to Robby over the years. Robert Sir, grew up in the hood of North Philly and basically been on his own for years. Got in trouble with the law many times before meeting, dating, and eventually marrying Sandra back in their high school days. Sandra grew up in Bensalem and had four brothers and three sisters. She was studying to be a chef but never went through with it because the program wanted he to go to Paris and her mother wouldn't let her go, so she accepted Robert's marriage proposal and got married at her childhood home backyard.

November 13, 1995, Robert Monrrow Spurgeon was born almost a month past the original due date. Speculated that he was suppose to be born on October 31st on Halloween but his mother Sandra held him in. Heard to have said "I don't want no devil baby". Robby grew up on Jackson street in Northeast Philadelphia. His school was three blocks up the road from him, had one best friend right behind his and another around the block from him. Back in those days, Robby has been heard to say, "All I ever wanted to be was a dancer slash actor". He was always known to be "over acting" when he was sick or hurt as a child. As the years went on, Robby never had any siblings but got very close to one of his cousins he often and publicly calls his "brother" Jhadir Wade. Jhadir was two years younger than him, but had all the confidence and "wow factor" that Robby wanted. Them two together always sang and danced together for fun. Jhadir actually went to pursue art schools later on in high school age while Robby, got more into Psychology by the time he graduated high school.

In Robby's late high school years, he had a set plan to become a marriage counselor and start his own label(RobbyRecords) and put out his own music having complete control. But those plans started to take a new direction once Robby really started to get into the writing the poetry, short stories, and then lyrics. Expressing the feelings of his sometimes tragic home life with his father grave Robby a brand new perspective on what it means for him to be a songwriter and later a singer.

Career

2013-2014 Perfectly Human Songwriting for Robby came naturally and easily from his history with writing poetry and short stories back in his middle school days. He listened to all genres of music and was always moved by certain beats and melodies that he started to switch the words of some songs and sing about was happening to him on the spot. His first song he re-wrote was called Loner. This song was a remix from P!nk song Sober. Robby's song Loner was explicitly about his own feelings about himself, his father, and his social world. Robby was heard to have said, "To be popular is to put on a persona that everyone likes and loves, while the Real you stands back, alone, waiting and hoping someone catches a glimpse of the real you..." After writing this song, Robby felt super happy and overly worried all at the same time. Scared that his overbearing father would find the song and persecute him for his feelings, but also so relived of feelings and thoughts that have been weighting on him for years. Even with worry in his head, Robby continued to write more and more songs, straight from his heart. By the end of his high school days, he had written about 20 songs of all genres. Not having any studio equipment or proper vocal training, that summer of 2013, he started recording songs on his ipod voice memo, while playing the beats on his cell phone in his bathroom every night when everyone was out. December 13th 2013, Perfectly Human remix album was put out the exact same time one of his musical influences Beyoncé album unexpectedly launched. Robby took that as a sign that he was doing the right thing for himself.

Unlike the strong female perspective of Beyoncé's BEYONCE album, Robby's album Perfectly Human was his footstep into everything. The album was filled with truth about his family, his own thoughts and feelings of his social world, while also having funny and cleverly written songs to show versatility. The title of the album was heard to be about not being perfect in everything and just being yourself can be a great thing. Playing off of how his school life seemed perfect while his home life had cracks and bumps all over it. Overall the sound of Perfectly Human was Pop/RnB with one Country styled song used from Adele's song Rolling In The Deep. Robby's song was called Crazy and it was about him feeling trapped in his room most of the time due to his father so-called "protective nature".

2015 Have A Seat and A Wise Guy Dwelling In Eleven Shades of Robby's Metamorphosis After the good amount of school notice with his first album, and Robby to have already started writing his next two albums at the same time, he was starting a relationship. He had dated before but this girl was his most public, and according to Robby, "I look back at the first Have A Seat album and realize that I was writing about a loving relationship I was not currently in. At the time I guess I thought these were memory songs from past girls, but now I know for sure I was writing about her and I". The Have A Seat album was heavily focused on love and relationships, but Robby never fails to let his fans into his home life and father-son struggle with hit song and video called Paint Me A Smile. Even with the low quality video and recording, a slew of friends, family, and just early fans of Mr. Monroe adored the songwriting and vocal expression of it. A few times within the song you could actually hear cracks in the song and usually a Robby Monroe song would never have that as a final product but according to Mr. Monroe, "I wrote Paint Me A Smile when I was in a very sad space in my life. I said right there after I finished writing it that when I sing it, I Must Only record this when I am again in a very sad space. The vocal cracks in that recording were real and by the bridge of that song I was in total tears. Art is pain, I told myself in the mirror after I recorded the song. Then I smiled at myself and took a deep breath...and exhaled, then walked in my room feeling completely satisfied". The next album, commonly shortened to A Wise Guy Album, had taken a less sad and lovely dovey road. This album was a genre testing one. The first half of the album had indie/RnB/Ballad type songs while the second half had Pop/Hip-Hop tracks, and then end of the album played around with this freestyled sung original song called White Rose Red. It was an Alternative-Rock styled song. The Wise Guy Album had mixed reviews but birthed a nickname for Robby called Ballad Boy. The upbeat songs were liked, but the slower, sad songs were the ones that got the most hype. During this album, Robby's relationship was very rocky and on the brink of ending which was the real reason he did not start performing these songs Live. Robby was heard to have said, "My albums are truly reflections of my life. Have A Seat falling in love, while Wise Guy is a mix, confused bag of emotions and thoughts".

2017-present Have A Seat 2: Seats Needed, Not An EP, #TurntUp&Twerkin, and Boomerang 

By the end of the Wise Guy album, Robby took a year off because his relationship ended. He was in such love with he, by the second year of dating he was looking at engagement rings and talking about married life with the girl. After her cheating and leaving him, Robby took a moment to be sad, but then do what he has always done in his life and that is write. Have A Seat 2 album was (as usual) almost done in the writing process. Robby was heard saying, "By the second Have A Seat album, I believed and still believe my writing is from God. The Lord speaks to everyone and I believe the best way he talks to me is through my music. It just makes sense how I can write some songs or a majority of an album about stuff that hasn't even happen yet. Before our breakup, I wrote and told my ex that I had a song called Happy Alone. A song about being single and free while I was whole-heartedly into my relationship". End of 2016, Have A Seat 2 album was done being written and around March is when the recording process started. This album, Robby had a computer recording program called Audacity that made his tracks sound beyond better than ever before. He also took up some vocal lessons and had grown into a countertenor with a whistle register. He wanted this music moment to be seen as his "Male Mariah Carey Moment". This Have A Seat 2 album was inspired by Usher's Confessions album and Mariah Carey's Butterfly album. Songs like So I Called You A Whore, Leave You, and an original song on the album called Excuses, were more of him taking responsibility on his side of why the breakup happen. Although, to be fair, in all accounts, he wrote a song called Breaking Ties that is a full recount of their entire relationship from the first time meeting to the bitter end. He was heard saying, "I wrote Breaking Ties to layout what happen in the relationship, to show that their were good times, but how the bad times overtook us and in the end...well you see the result".

End of 2017, Robby started writing and recording three original songs to truly break away from the sad sack he became and show a happier side of himself as he was getting over the breakup. Mid January of 2018, Robby had started putting together something he calls a "Not EP" project. Much talk about doing things more official with label producers, signed artist, and making a whole original and official studio album, but first he wanted to show what he could do.

Currently, he is putting out three singles from this EP called Not An EP and they are doing very well. Of course, the first song out is slow and ballad like and its his highest listened to song on his Soundcloud page. The EP is set to come out March 16th. While doing this EP launch, he is scheduled to start recording his next remix album somewhere in April and trying for a mid-summer release. The next remix album called #TurntUp&Twerkin is said to be "all high energy, dance, happy, upbeat tracks with only one being slow but very sexy". In addition to a summer remix album release, Robby is heard saying, "I have been in talks with a few managers and producers about wanting me to feature on songs and have my own official song out there. I will totally do that, but during my first year of college I wrote this original album called Boomerang and its my entire heart. Before I do anything official I am going to go with my bestie and start recording it at her uncle's studio for free! I am beyond happy and can't wait to show the world what I can Really do in an official studio. Also, I can't wait to finally show my mom an official song of me singing".

Artistry

Influences

Robby has said from childhood that he understands, loves, and will never give up on his religion and even though the entertainment world is mainly based on the literal face of the artist, he will continue in his beliefs learned to not show your face on camera. He has been engulfed in all kinds of jazz, Hip-Hop, old school RnB/Soul and Gospel music. He was always surrounded by his parents music growing up. Mariah Carey and Mary J Blige was his parents favorite singers and their vocals and writing skills have been heavily influenced into Monroe's music. Apart from his parents, he got into Brandy Norwood, Beyoncé, Jesse McCartney and who has been heard to be his first ever word as a baby, Usher Raymond. Their style, music videos, vocals, and overall influence has always been Monroe's go to kind of expression.

Robby's change of his Middle name Monrrow to Monroe is also influenced by his love of old Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. He has been heard to say, "I adore old Hollywood stars. Ms. Monroe and James Dean are everything I want to be. Cool, smooth, and unforgettable like James and sexy, clever, and irresistible like Ms. Monroe".

Musical Style

Robby Monroe's writing style is like a story writer writing only the premise of stories. Like a poet who only writes love poems. A play write who only writes true stories of his life. Due to Robby known for reading the dictionary as a child, his love of vocabulary words are driving forces for some songs. He always believed that the "N-Word" was highly offensive and that most rappers and most recently singer, that use the word are "lazy writing". He was known to always be against the word and even when having features on his songs, that word will not be said and if is, bleeped out on all version of the song. Robby is hear saying, "Writing wise, I want to write classics and hits like Mariah, Miguel, Neyo, and Solange. Vocal wise, Mariah, Trey Songz, Toni Braxton, and Beyoncé like, Album concept wise like, Usher, Prince, Janet and my life, and Performance wise, have stages and videos like, Beyoncé, Usher, Prince, and N'Sync all combined into one".

Voice and Vocals

Robby's natural speaking voice is lighter tone and calming. After just a few years of vocal training, Mr. Monroe's vocals has been improved into a level that most male singers only wish they could do and very few can. Currently, the only male singer notably known to whistle is Adam Lopez, but Robby can do much more than the one or two notes Adam can do. Robby's vocals is of a CounterTenor with an almost exact whistle register of Mariah Carey. His timbre is usually strong and powerful but currently he has been playing around with a lower register or singing and whisper like tones. His vocal is rooted in Gospel and Rock music, but can easily bend into any genre.

Personal Life

Robby has dated over the years but his most public girlfriend lasted album 3 years and ended early 2016. Currently, in Delaware Valley University getting his bachelors in Psychology while minoring in Music. Before making a decision about getting a masters he will be really try his foot into the music scene.

Discography

Remix (Mixtape)Albums

Perfectly Human 2013

Have A Seat 2014

A Wise Guy Dwelling In Eleven Shade of Robby's Metamorphosis 2015

Have A Seat 2: Seats Needed 2017

TurntUp&Twerkin 2018 (TBA)

Have A Seat 3: Finally Seated (TBD)

Robby V.S. Mr. Monroe (TBD)

'''Original EPs and Albums'

Not An EP 2018

Boom (TBD)

Boomerang (TBD)

Bay Window (TBD)

'''Stage Plays'

School House Rock 2007

Annie Get Your Gun 2011

Annie 2012

Talent Show 2012