Robin Spielberg at Iridium

JIMMY WEBB Multiple Grammy-winning songwriter Jimmy Webb has topped the charts from pop to country to disco numerous times with interpretations by some of the industrys greatest -- from Glen Campbell to Art Garfunkel to Linda Ronstadt -- and covers by everyone from Guns n Roses to Josh Groban to Little Big Town. Since Webbs Grammy sweep in 1968 when his own Up, Up and Away and By the Time I Get to Phoenix vied for Song of the Year (and Up won), to the use of his Do What You Gotta Do in Kanye Wests Famous, the man often praised as Americas Songwriter remains an icon in popular music and continues to challenge his artistic boundaries with projects like a classical nocturne...

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JIMMY WEBB Multiple Grammy-winning songwriter Jimmy Webb has topped the charts from pop to country to disco numerous times with interpretations by some of the industrys greatest -- from Glen Campbell to Art Garfunkel to Linda Ronstadt -- and covers by everyone from Guns n Roses to Josh Groban to Little Big Town. Since Webbs Grammy sweep in 1968 when his own Up, Up and Away and By the Time I Get to Phoenix vied for Song of the Year (and Up won), to the use of his Do What You Gotta Do in Kanye Wests Famous, the man often praised as Americas Songwriter remains an icon in popular music and continues to challenge his artistic boundaries with projects like a classical nocturne. His most famous songs are touchstones for a generation yet remain timeless MacArthur Park, Wichita Lineman, Worst That Could Happen. Now in his touring show An Evening with Jimmy Webband his literary memoir, THE CAKE AND THE RAIN (St. Martins Press; now in paperback and audiobook), Webb brings fans of his music a unique connection to their favorite songs, revealing the stories behind his hits as far back as his first songwriting job at Motown through a career trajectory that took a teen preachers son from a farm town in Oklahoma to the top of his longed-for profession, with pitfalls and blessings in equal measure between. www.jimmywebb.com/ ROBIN SPIELBERGRobin Spielberg is a Steinway Artist, and has been hailed as one of Americas most popular contemporary female pianists/composers and has been featured in live performances on PBS, CBS Saturday Morning, ABC News, Lifetime Live, and NPR. She has played sold out performances at Carnegie Halls Weill Concert Hall three times. Spielbergs has toured South Korea several times and just this past summer embarked on a three week concert tour of China where she is a bonafide piano star. Spielbergs music has now been heard by over 165 million listeners on Pandora and has had hundreds of millions of plays on Apple Music and Spotify. As her popularity continues to skyrocket, Spotify has now created a Robin Spielberg Spotify Playlist. Her 18th CD On the Edge of A Dream spent 4 weeks the Billboard charts and was nominated for numerous awards. She is currently at work on her 19th CD, an album of popular love songs. She is the author of Naked on the Bench: My Adventures in Pianoland, which won the Readers Favorite International Book Award contest for best memoir. In it, she demystifies the life of a touring artist with humor, and a dose of the sometimes-harsh realities of life on the road. www.robinspielberg

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