{{short description|Jamaican session musician (born 1951)}} {{Use British English|date=January 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Robbie Lyn | image = RobbieLyn1979.png | caption = Lyn in 1979 | birth_name = Robert Bernard Lyn | alias = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}} | birth_place = Kingston, Jamaica | death_date = | origin = Jamaica | instrument = Keyboard, synthesizer, piano, organ | genre = [[Reggae]] | occupation = Musician | years_active = 1970s–present | label = | website = }} '''Robert "Robbie" Bernard Lyn''' is a Jamaican session musician who plays piano, keyboard and synthesiser.
==Biography== Robbie Lyn is a popular Jamaican session musician, who has played with various session/backing bands including [[Now Generation Band|Now Generation]], [[The Sound Dimensions|Sound Dimension]], [[Word, Sound and Power]], and [[Sly and Robbie]]. He has also backed and/or toured with many reggae artists, including [[Burning Spear]], [[Peter Tosh]], [[Dennis Brown]] and [[Third World (band)|Third World]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080413/ent/ent3.html |title=Jamaica Gleaner News – Robbie Lyn rewarded for 'Making Notes' – Sunday {{!}} 13 April 2008 |website=jamaica-gleaner.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422013530/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080413/ent/ent3.html |archive-date=2008-04-22}}</ref>
==Discography== ===Solo albums=== * ''Making Notes'' (2007) – for which Lyn received the Reggae Academy Award for ''Best Instrumental Album'', 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.reggaereport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65|title=Reggae Report – Reggae History...'80s & '90s...Read the Music!}}</ref>
===Participated Albums=== *''[[Never Ending (album)|Never Ending]] by [[Beres Hammond]]'' (2018, [[VP Records]]) – Keyboards<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/never-ending-mw0003204011/credits|title=Beres Hammond – Never Ending |publisher=AllMusic}}</ref> *''[[From Then 'Til Now]]'' by Roots Architects (2024, Fruits Records) – Keyboards, organisation
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==External links== * [https://www.myspace.com/robbertlyn Robbie's MySpace page] * [http://www.roots-archives.com/artist/2409 Listing of playing credits] at Roots Archives * [http://penthouserecords.free.fr/Interview_Robbie_Lyn.htm Interview at Penthouse Records, 2009]
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