Bob Knight is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Southern California. He’s lived in Minnesota for 14 years. In California, Bob was member of a number of performing groups, and honed his skills at songwriting, playing, arranging and production on the stages and in the studios of Hollywood, as well as his home turf of Orange County.

In the late 1970s, Bob did a 3-year stint in Tucson, Arizona, where he made a living playing country and country-rock music. Upon his return to California in 1980, he became a member, and later musical director, of a 10-piece show band, arranging and programming all of their music, as well as tripling on guitar, keyboards and bass.

In the mid-80’s Bob, guitar luminary John Jorgenson and rockabilly siren Kittra Strejan banded together as "cowpunk" band Cheatin’ Hearts, and gigged extensively around the L.A. area.

Since his move to the Frozen North in 1996, Bob has continued to compose original music, and has played with and led several groups around the Twin Cities. Bob’s interest in instruments such as bouzouki, mandolin, Dobro and lap steel guitar is steeped in the California traditions of country-rock, modern folk and contemporary world music.

Bob's musical influences include Lowell George, David Lindley, Seals and Crofts, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell and Nat King Cole. Bob plays on worship teams at Woodland Hills, one of them with Greg and Bruce.

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