Eric Benet's recent "Love and Life" disc -- recorded with Milwaukee producer and engineer Kevin Sucher, at Sucher's The Laboratory Recording Studio in the Blatz building Downtown -- has earned a pair of Grammy nominations.
Sucher, who also serves as Benet's tour manager and front-of-house sound engineer, has also worked with the likes of Robbie Williams, Hall and Oates, Michelle Branch, TRAIN, Duncan Sheik and The Gufs.
The bulk of "Love and Life" was recorded in Milwaukee with Sucher and it has received nominations for "Best R&B Album" and "Best R&B Male Vocal."
The Grammy Awards will be presented at Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre on Feb. 9.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
