{"id":15708,"date":"2021-07-27T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=15708"},"modified":"2021-07-27T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:17:08","slug":"legendary-rock-violinist-robby-steinhardt-passes-away-july-17-2021-in-tampa-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2021\/07\/27\/legendary-rock-violinist-robby-steinhardt-passes-away-july-17-2021-in-tampa-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Rock Violinist Robby Steinhardt Passes Away July 17, 2021 in Tampa, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Steinhardt Family announces the passing of legendary musician Robby Steinhardt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Eugene Steinhardt, was well recognized as a founding member and original violinist and vocalist for the rock band Kansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His violin and vocals on, \u201cDust in The Wind\u201d, \u201cPoint Of No Return\u201d and \u201cCarry On My Wayward Son\u201d, have etched Robby a solid place in rock history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robby had been recording his new album with producer Michael Franklin, who put together an all-star cast of famous musicians in support of Robby\u2019s comeback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steinhardt was very proud of this project, slated for release in late 2021. He had begun rehearsals for a national tour when he became ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robby is survived by his wife Cindy, and daughter Becky. Steinhardt was 71 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will be deeply missed by all he knew and his music will last forever. A memorial will be announced in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong><br>Michael FranklinSolar Music\u00a0407 921-8290<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:michaelthomasfranklin@gmail.com\">michaelthomasfranklin@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Article image credit: By Kirshner Records &#8211; Kansas 1976.JPG, Public Domain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steinhardt Family announces the passing of legendary musician Robby Steinhardt. Robert Eugene Steinhardt, was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[128,226,317,1825,125,51,1824],"class_list":["post-15708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-aor","tag-classic-rock","tag-hard-rock","tag-kansas","tag-prog","tag-progressive-rock","tag-robby-steinhardt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15710,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions\/15710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}