Hello!

Robert Skoro is a Minneapolis-based musician, songwriter, and producer.  When I’m not referring to myself in the third person, it’s lately as an Anthropology student at the University of Minnesota, studying foodways, nutritional and medical anthropology, and the Mandarin language.

I grew up playing piano, guitar, and bass.  The day after I graduated from high school (two days after returning from a month in Bolivia and Peru),  Mason Jennings called me and asked me to come over and jam with him and his brother. The result that followed was an incredible period of almost five  years of touring and recording, both with Mason as well as for my own solo career.  After cutting my teeth for a while, my desire to focus on songwriting trumped my interest in the bass clef, and I decided to pursue my own career as a songwriter more aggressively.

In 2002 I self-released my first solo record, Proof, a collection of studio forays and overnight stints of bedroom recording.  Proof provided the much-needed impetus to continue writing in a focused manner, and thankfully brought new opportunities with it as well.  A year later, I began an intensive demoing and recording process that would culminate in That These Things Could Be Ours, a live recording made with a large number of fantastically amazing people, including producer Brian Deck.

In 2006, I decided to take an indefinite break from the pursuit of music as a profession.  Eight years of hustling for a living, trying to create relentlessly, and traveling for indefinite periods of time made an otherwise dynamic lifestyle feel a little too one-sided.  I decided to swap lawyers, managers, and agents for professors, TAs, and administrators, and returned to college to finish my B.A. in Anthropology.

…Which brings us about up to the present (time does indeed fly when you’re synopsizing), and the development of my namesake-bearing web address beyond the sort of blunt promotional tool that is your average indie-rocker’s website.  Hell, I pay for the domain space, don’t I?

My hope is to begin with documenting a semester abroad in southwestern China, beginning this fall.  While I don’t have huge aspirations of becoming a professional blogger of any sort, this space should be a good one for keeping friends and family updated on any and all of my pursuits.