Rob Dehlinger

Rob Dehlinger is a singer, trumpet player, and composer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the frontman for “Robert Dehlinger’s Alpha Rhythm Kings”. As a live trumpeter and backup vocalist Rob has worked with many performers including Ledisi, Wanda Jackson, Dan Aykroyd, Meat Loaf, Michael Bolton, and Lena Prima. Rob was a member of the band Stompy Jones from 2006 to 2017. Dehlinger's music, jingles, and other audio productions are featured heavily in the world of podcasts, especially in those which focus on topics related to Disney properties (Star Wars in particular). He is referred to as the "John Williams of Podcasting" by hosts and fans of shows such as "Skywalking Through Neverland", "The Neverland Podcast", "Talking Apes TV", "Rebel Force Radio", "Disney Vault Talk", "Fangirls Going Rogue", "Almost Famous", and others. Rob composed the musical score for the film “Portable Storage”, which enjoyed a screening at Lucasfilm/ILM in San Francisco, and was released in 2016. Rob has appeared on the nationally televised PBS specials "A Taste of Chanukah" and "A Taste of Passover", as well as an Emmy-award-winning episode of the Bay Area PBS arts show "Spark". Rob works routinely in the Bay Area venues, including Slim's, Great American Music Hall, Yoshi's, Bimbo's, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the Regency Ballroom, and George Lucas' Skywalker Sound studios. He performs regularly at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and has toured Europe and Australia. Dehlinger's orchestral arrangement of Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" was recorded by San Francisco's Punk Rock Orchestra with Grammy winning engineer Leslie Ann Jones, and was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition. Rob's band, the Alpha Rhythm Kings, performed for the 2018 Grammy Awards Nominee Celebration, San Francisco Chapter. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. Dehlinger is also a prominent music educator in the San Francisco Bay Area.