Robbie Mangiardi is a singer songwriter and actor (most recently seen on HBO's The Rehearsal") currently based in Los Angeles who has been writing his own material for well over 50 years but only starting releasing material with the help of drummer Pete DeCoste who ten years ago introduced Robbie to music icon Herb Pedersen (Desert Rose Band) and they put together his first CD 'The People You Love" with the best sidemen in the biz, Bill Bryson (RIP), John Jorgensen(recently inducted into the Nashville Music Hall of Fame, Jay Dee Maness  (Buck Owens),Patrick Sauber, Dean Parks and Peter Freiberger to name a few.

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Singer-songwriter is a term that now is a big umbrella.

Artists like Mississippi John Hurt, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams and later  Dylan, Nina Simone James Taylor, Randy Newman, Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell mastered their instruments, their singing, their lyricism and storytelling to a high art that drew Robbie to a place where he found himself inspired to do the same.

  A lead singer in a band at 15,Robbie later started writing and playing  in a few high school  bands and later the folk  circuit in NYC and New England but  after that just wrote music for years but rarely played out. Had his share of troubles with drugs and the law that did not help. He called himself, "a closet songwriter who wrote songs for an audience of one. I wrote songs to soothe myself, I guess. It still is a form of escapism to me."

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