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Rob Burns

Biography

Rob Burns (born Robert George Henry Burns, 24 February 1953), earlier also known as Robbie Burns, is an English-born New Zealand bass player, author and academic. Burns's career spans five decades, encompassing musical genres such as pop, rock, R&B, soul, jazz, gospel, folk, and country. From the late 1970s until 1999 he toured and worked several sessions a week for artists of international fame, as well as for many major British TV shows, before embarking upon an academic career. Burns earned a PhD in music in 2008 and has published work in several academic publications. He resides in Dunedin, New Zealand, gaining citizenship of New Zealand on 4 June 2014. Burns is currently Honorary Associate Professor in the Music Programme (School of Performing Arts) at the University of Otago.

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

21 releases · 9 albums · active 1977–2009

  • Performance · 22
  • Production · 3
  • Other credits · 1

Studios: DML Studios · Real Tone Studio · One On One Studios · Studio 17

Frequent collaborators

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