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Welcome to my page! I'm a singer/songwriter, bassist and guitarist and a novelist too. I invite you to listen to my portfolio here on this site - I hope you enjoy! Feel free to leave comments, messages etc. I wish you the very best of good fortune with your own pursuits, and the best of many successes with your dreams!

Robert Sharon is a talented musician and a writer who is a survivor of childhood domestic violence and parental suicide, and who refuses to abandon his dreams. Robert has had a life-long involvement with music - more recently with a creative surge of eleven new songs all written, performed and recorded by him. Prior to that he was in a Wembley-based band Visible Groove, under a freelance management agreement with Play Studios, Soho. Robert started playing bass at 14 years of age and guitar at 18. He did a first studio recording session (ICC Studios, Eastbourne) at 17, and started playing the Brighton pub circuit (if you could call it that then) at the same time (does the Alhambra even exist any more?). Robert did some eighties work with Steve Evans, in Swansea while was studying for an Egyptology (yes) BA Honours at the University of Wales. Steve subsequently went on to work with stars like Sheena Easton. Robert got distracted from music (due to his other talent for writing novels - a little more on that below here) for a few years after that, but he re-involved himself some time later. He did a few gigs as bassist on the London pub circuit (Islington, Clerkenwell, Hammersmith) with a pretty unremarkable band but he found it good fun to play live again, and there was a recording session in Tooting produced by a member of the former punk band The Vibrators. And about the novel writing...

In the year 2000 Robert was on the brink of getting a second novel "Harvest Moon" stocked in just about every bookshop in the UK by a leading publisher...but the plug was pulled at the last moment. Now he's long ago stopped being permanently fed up by that and is hard at work again writing a third novel - "Iconostas" which is close to completion, set in the year 2087, in a world with no more oil, gas or plastic and a khamsin roaring every April down Knightsbridge, and Russian is the first language. The novel also deals with the "slave" trade as practiced in the highest echelons of "society".

Robert was previously represented by one of the world's major literary agents, based in Holland Park, London. While completing "Harvest Moon" he was approached by a second, London-based literary agent. This lady had succeeded in getting the first £1 million advance deal, with EMI, for a poet (the story of that was run on BBCs "Newsnight"). Having already committed himself to the Holland Park agent, Robert felt left with little alternative than to turn her down. Now we'll never know what might have happened. It was all a bit like winning the lottery and then losing the ticket...

Robert has been etching a living with his own little software consultancy company (formidably populated with a rapidly expanding workforce comprising an accountant and a secretary!). He gained an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Wales in 1996. Robert still preserves his dream of widespread distribution and performance of his music, as well as his dream of publication and worldwide readership of his novels. One his dreams, at last, at least, is coming true - he is now engaged to his fiancee Lena from Saint Petersburg, Russia - the inspiration for much of his music and for the title of the song AngelL...