The Bobs - Biographies

The Bobs are:
Richard Bob Greene
Matthew Bob Stull
Amy Bob Engelhardt
Dan Bob Schumacher

matthew MATTHEW BOB STULL (mid-range horn: 130-620 Hz): Born the ordinary child of ordinary parents in ordinary Columbus, Ohio, Matthew Bob is really an actor and this whole singing career is still something of a surprise to him personally. He has played many parts including Petrucchio in the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival's "The Taming of the Shrew." Favorite quote: "She looks as clear/ As morning roses newly wash'd with dew / Something, something -- don't worry, I'll have it memorized by Thursday."

Matthew's e-mail address is matthew at bobs.com.

Also find about about Matthew's lounge-lizard doppelganger at our Vic & Nick page.

amy AMY BOB ENGELHARDT (tweeter) In a case still studied at Harvard Medical School, Amy began her singing career in utero. There followed a childhood of incessant harmonizing with Bert and Ernie, and an adolescence filled with hours forcing her brother to duet in "Donny and Marie" routines at otherwise dignified family gatherings (rare foresight for the possibility of singing with Dan Bob). After 10 years of stage work (everything from Shakespeare to Sondheim, everywhere from sweaty summer stock to icy European tours), Amy did a musical 180 into pop and jazz at Boston's Berklee College of Music. Now that she's a Bob, Amy insists she's finally over the heartbreak of never having played "Annie" on Broadway. When asked to describe herself in two words, she replied, "Two words?"

Amy's e-mail address is amy at bobs.com.

richard RICHARD BOB GREENE (woofer: 58-477 Hz): Born in a hospital, Richard Bob quickly realized that his voice was very, very deep. Very deep. He has a deep voice. He is also a musician (plays the bass, wouldn't you know?), a record producer, an arranger (nominated for a Grammy for his work with the Bobs) and the writer of most of The Bobs original song-like compositions. Richard discovered singing when, hired one day to play bass at a wedding, he drove to the job only to find that he had forgotten to bring his bass. What could he do but sing the parts? A career, with less heavy equipment, was born.

Richard's e-mail address is richard at bobs.com.

Check out Richard's online a cappella radio show at http://www.singers.com/radio/index.html!

dan DAN BOB SCHUMACHER (extremely tall mid-range driver) was born and raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming (the other square state) to a highly unorthodox, very artistic family. When presented with her children's practical career choices, his mother was known to say things like, "That's fine if you want to be an architect, honey, but it would be a shame to waste such a beautiful voice."

After winning the Vocal Jazz Soloist award in the Big-N-Tall weight class (more tall than big) at a University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival and studying vocal jazz at Northwest College, enablers kept telling him, "You should do this for a living," to which he replied, "Okay!” Dan’s alter ego then studied vocal performance and operatic technique at Indiana University in Bloomington while his inner jazzbo founded the vocal band Monkey Puzzle.

Dan Bob lives in Seattle, where he previously wrote, arranged and performed with funktastic,techno-groove-oriented vocal band Kickshaw. Dan is now exploring the dimensions of his long, tall, schizophrenic personality with the Bobs, where both of him fit well, except in most rental cars.