Bob Sky Young

Bob Young is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the greater Detroit area. An award-winning composer, he is perhaps better known as the leader of the Delta Twins band. Bob sings songs of "yesteryear and things held dear".

A prolific writer, Bob has been composing since he was just twelve years old. As a teen, Bob found he had a knack for writing songs with depth against music that was a remarkable blend of his influences without copying any one of them in particular. He studied music theory in college, then taught himself piano, blues harp, guitar, and became proficient at computer-based music and digital recording.

Bob is the grandson of a West Virginia coal miner. His father moved from West Virginia to Detroit in search of the American Dream. He grew up on the sounds of the 1960’s and 1970’s - everything from rock to blues to soul to folk to jazz to gospel and then some.

On Sunday mornings it was gospel quartets and Mahalia Jackson; during the week it was the Smothers Brothers, Jim Croce, John Denver. His friends at school turned him on to Yes, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, and Elton John. He explored Curtis Mayfield, The Temptations, and Billy Joel on his own. In his teens he locked on to Boston, Nugent, Seger, and then the universe exploded with Queen's "Night At The Opera". The fragments settled on Journey, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, and found their home in the songs of Marc Cohn, Jackson Browne, and Bill Mallonee.

So when you hear Bob perform, you experience the force of musical and regional history through the heart of a son of the Midwest... and you may never be the same.