BIOGRAPHY
BOB MAYO's (1951-2004 Obituaries) work was known and loved the world over for taste, style and
presence as
a professional keyboardist,
guitarist, vocalist, producer, and songwriter with international acts including: Foreigner, Hall & Oates,
The Average White
Band, Ian Hunter, Robert Plant, Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton.
The following
BIO was written by Bob in January 2003.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....
Bob began studying classical piano at age 5 in New York, where he was born in
‘51. Various teachers in the Bronx and Brooklyn throughout the 50’s and early
60’s gave him a broad sampling of composers, and the formal classical recitals
and competitions encouraged him to pursue a musical career.
The world of pop music was really exploding in New York during this time via
some wonderfully varied AM radio; the singing groups, the instrumentalists, pop,
rock, R&B, country; everyone from Elvis, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Ray
Charles, Bobby Darin, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Smokey and the early Motown
sounds, the Beach Boys, Phil Spector, The Righteous Brothers blasting out of a
tiny speaker in a suburban bedroom, introducing a much wider world of musical
expression, sparking the imagination of a new generation of musicians and fans.
