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<!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: Image:Anwarrob.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Anwar Robinson -->Anwar Farid Robinson (born April 21, 1979) is an United States|American singer/songwriter/musician who was the 7th place finalist on the American Idol (season 4)|fourth season of ''American Idol''.
Robinson grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He first started to sing when he was eight and was accepted to the Newark Boys' Chorus School. As a student at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, he trained classically as a tenor in college for four years under Dr. Scott J. McCoy. He graduated in 2001.
During his senior internship at New York City's High School of the Performing Arts (known as LaGuardia High School), Robinson landed a gig as the keyboardist/musical director for ''Patti's Kitchen'', a pilot for Patti LaBelle's cooking show with the Food Network.
Also during his senior year in college, he joined an R&B group called the A.R.T. of SOUL under the direction of world renowned songwriter/producer, Joshua Thompson. A.R.T. is an acronym that stands for Anwar, Randy (Beasley), and Terry (Carpenter), the members of the trio. The group signed a production deal with Thompson, who later took the group to sing live for Clive Davis. This was during February 2001, when Davis was still in the interim stages of developing his own... read all
