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Bob Gentry is an American singer-songwriter.
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Bob Gentry is an American singer-songwriter.
Bob Gentry was born in Detroit. By the age of 7, he was a self-taught pianist and guitarist who started songwriting and playing to express himself. [1]
In the late-1990s, Gentry formed the rock band Moisture, then moved to Los Angeles and reincarnated the band with new members. [2] Moisture performed live on television and was offered a recording contract from Farmclub.com, a branch of Interscope Records. Farmclub was canceled before Moisture was able to release or record a new album and the group eventually disbanded. [2]
As Moisture broke up, Gentry released his first solo album in 2005 and another titled Seconds in 2010. In 2006, he won the Los Angeles Music Award for Singer-Songwriter of the Year in the Rock category. [3] Later that year, his song "Never Know" was placed in the Fox TV series Bones . [4] Also in 2006, he joined the cast of the NBC show StarTomorrow , which featured David Foster as the head judge. Gentry made it to the finals. The Gentry song "Beat into You" is on the soundtrack to the film Hollywood & Wine , which will be released in 2011.[ needs update ][ citation needed ]
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