Welcome to Robin Millar's web site
The original 'Smooth Operator' Robin Millar is one of Britain's most successful ever record producers with 150 gold, silver and platinum discs and 44 No1's to his credit, including Sade's iconic 'Diamond Life' album.
His productions have sold well over 55 million copies, earning the UK over £400 million in foreign income and have won almost every major global music award including Brit and Grammy Awards.
To date, Robin has sold more records than R.E.M. , The Police, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, Jay-Z or Black Sabbath.
To reflect his musical and campaigning career Robin has been awarded a CBE in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours. He was inducted this year as a Fellow of the Association of Professional Recording Services with Peter Gabriel.
Dubbed 'Golden ears' by Boy George, Robin is the man behind Sade, the producer of the first acid jazz record and of the biggest selling French album of all time.
He is an accomplished guitarist and has worked with legendary artists including Randy Crawford, Everything But The Girl, Fine Young Cannibals, Big Country, Eric Clapton, Sting and many many others. He is an artist in his own right and is now returning to contemporary dance music with his own brand of jazz-dance. He has produced and mixed this summer's official Ibiza dance anthem with U.S. legend Arthur Baker.
More recently, Robin has become equally recognised as an academic, a coach and mentor to FTSE business leaders, one of the most charismatic and in-demand keynote speakers and panelists, a major fundraiser and champion for vulnerable people and as a spokesman to the Government for the whole music sector.
In November 2007 he was awarded Honorary Professor status at Thames Valley University, Britain's largest Uni.
Robin is the only British person to have produced an Olympic Games opening ceremony [Atlanta 1996].
He is Hon. Patron of the Music Producers Guild, a member of the Human Genetics Commission Consultative Panel and a board member of The National Skills Academy.
Robin has owned and run businesses in and out of the music industry for 25 years, including Power Plant, Maison Rouge and Whitfield Street Studios, Rent-A-Ferrari, Scarlett Group PLC and Arts Media.
He has been a visiting professor and lecturer in commercial music for 15 years at The Royal Academy of Music, London College of Music, Surrey University and The University of Modena in Italy.
His outstanding work for the world's most oppressed people has involved work as patron of UNHCR Geneva, trustee of The Playing Alive Foundation and a long-time trustee of the Vietnamese Boat Peoples' Appeal and his campaigning concerts and recordings for Oxfam, UNICEF, British Lung Foundation, Namibian Freedom Fighters, Artists Against Apartheid and others have raised millions of pounds. Robin was awarded the 2002 Windrush Award for his work with minorities.
Robin has been registered blind since the age of 16 and has had no sight since 1985. His amazing life as a punk guitarist, Ferrari renter, nude model, academic and producer of 'Smooth Operator' and 'The Sweetest Taboo' is still full of adventure, fun and a source of inspiration to others.
"I've made and lost many millions, broken all the rules and I've developed a strong and deep understanding of how lucky some of us are. I'm more of a rough diamond than a smooth operator . . . adventure should be real and not imagined."
Robin Millar CBE
The details above are taken from the Berklee College Of Music Celebrity Scholarship Patrons Website.
Public Speaking
To book Robin for motivational speaking, high level mentoring or just for fun, adventure and anecdotes of his life with the rich, famous and bizarre, contact Kruger Cown - Click here for more info and to see testimonials.
New Video Section
We have introduced a new video section starting with a video of Robin giving an LCM Masterclass. View the video here.
Thought for August 2010
"Central to every good musician's life is disappointment"
William Buckley Jr