Robert Brookins

The often overused term multi-talented is true to its definition when referring to Robert F. Brookins. The singer/songwriter/musician/ arranger and producer -- born 1965 in Sacramento, CA -- was singing at four, drumming at five, playing keyboards at nine, and wowing locals with his band Little Robert & the Fondeles at 11. They were tight enough to best a field-of-plenty to win Motown's 1974 Soul Search Contest. After school and seven years later, Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White inked Robert and his brother Michael Brookins to his CBS-distributed ARC Records. Calling thems...