ABOUT Robert A. Kraft

Robert A. Kraft learned to play guitar at age eleven on a four-dollar gut string guitar that his older brother found at a garage sale. He started writing songs around age twelve. By age fifteen he was sneaking out at night to sing and play at bars and clubs around downtown Dallas. He has been performing around the USA ever since, and his 2017 release North Bishop Ave. has been spun by radio stations in the US, Europe, the UK, and way down in New Zealand. 

Arriving in Austin in 1988 from the Bay Area with his alt rock power trio The Ken, he moved through various projects over the next few decades- crooning Jazz standards with his long-time collaborator Glover Gill, singing Tangos with the legendary Tosca Tango Orchestra (for whom he also wrote and arranged works in Spanish and French), and performing on studio projects for such luminaries as Charlie Sexton and Rosie Flores. 

He held down an eight-year Friday residency at the world-famous Continental Club Gallery as The Robert Kraft Trio.  He currently writes and records on his small farm near Bastrop, TX, just outside of Austin, and he performs as a solo acoustic artist at clubs and venues all around Central Texas. 

In 2023 he founded Bastrop Live Music Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on nurturing the live music scene in Bastrop by funding shows by local and touring artists, and which also provides musical equipment and private instruction for young musicians whose families face financial challenges. The Foundation also curates the Prison Music Program bringing live music performances from various artists for incarcerated persons in Texas.

His latest release, 730 kHz, is streaming everywhere, and is an homage to KKDA Soul 73, the Dallas AM radio station that helped shape his earliest musical and vocal sensibilities, and has influenced his music throughout his life.