A composer for live performances and recordings
Bob Singleton is an award-winning, classically-trained composer and producer with deep roots in studio production, classical, and popular music.
He is a Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum album award-winning producer, composer, and arranger and Notable Alumni of University of North Texas. His music work includes over 70 PBS episodes, over 60 albums, an NBC network special, and a sold-out Radio City Music Hall run. He has been commissioned to compose entire concerts for family audiences by major symphony orchestras (Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Savannah Philharmonic), and had numerous performances of his works by those orchestras, plus several prestigious symphonies including Nashville Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and many others. He has also worked as a composer and music producer for home videos and award-winning commercial & industrial projects (Gold Cindy Award), and worked on award-winning theater and musical productions. Bob has been nominated for 4 Dove awards in the Children’s Musical Album of the Year category.
Bob’s triumphant kids & family concert for symphony orchestra, “When Instruments Roamed the Earth!®” was premiered February 2, 2019, by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, under the baton of Alejandro Gómez Guillén. His concert for families, “The Unicorn’s Birthday®”, commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, premiered at the Meyerson Symphony Center to rave reviews on June 3, 2023.
He has produced music and soundtracks for hundreds of programs. These programs have appeared internationally and nationally on NBC, PBS, independent TV stations, The Disney Channel, educational distribution, and home video retail sale.
His scoring experience ranges from digital workstations to full orchestra, hip-hop, R&B, post-modern rock, symphonic, pop and children’s music. He has written hundreds of songs, commercials and scores for a variety of broadcast and industrial clients.
Bob has also created and produced animated and live action home videos as well as several interactive computer media titles.
Bob started his music career in his home state of California, where he worked as a keyboard player making song demos for a pop song publisher.
He traveled to Texas for college. After graduating with honors in Music Composition from the University of North Texas’ School of Music, he went to work as a recording engineer. His first work was in Dallas, where his ability to read scores in jingle sessions made him one of the top engineers in a busy jingle industry town.
He went on to engineer top acts like Willy Nelson, The Commodores, Amy Grant, and many others in studio and for live TV and radio broadcasts. He traveled and worked in Dallas, LA, Nashville, Toronto and many other locations.
Bob carried on parallel careers as both a composer and a freelance engineer for many years, until he set up his own production company in the 80’s. He distinguished himself by being a leader in the coordinated use of computer compositional tools and audio-video interlock.
Many of his clients were ad agencies whose commercials, needed tightly synchronized scores in a wide variety of musical styles, and major political candidates (like Bill Clements, Gov. of Texas) wanting persuasive musical signatures.
Bob’s client list has included American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, The US Air Force, JC Penney, Gaylord Entertainment, Lyrick Studios, Sony Entertainment, Marvel Animation, and many others.
In the 90’s, Bob became one of the top creators of music for kids in the US. He was a music director on Barney® and Friends for 10 years, and his music for Barney is still heard in over 100 countries, worldwide. He produced over 30 albums for children, gathering a Grammy nomination, 4 Dove nominations, a triple platinum album and a platinum album.
While working on the Barney® TV series, Bob started working on computer-based media projects. He collaborated with Activision on a Playstation game, and developed sound tracks for several interactive CD-ROM projects.
He continued with commercial and industrial projects too; picking up a Gold Cindy Award for his work with JC Penney and Henry Grethel Clothing, created music for The Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Sidekicks, and produced for major industrial clients like Interstate Battery Systems of America and World Vision.
Bob is currently writing and creating a wide variety of music and soundtrack projects in his personal recording studio in the open country of Texas, USA.