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A founding member of the seminal groove band The Greyboy Allstars, organ, keyboard and synth player Robert Walter splits his time between his own 20th Congress, The Greyboy Allstars, and a robust film soundtrack career in Los Angeles. Walter is currently on tour with Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters’ ‘This Is Not A Drill’ Tour playing Hammond B-3 Organ (and some piano/keys).

Initially formed as the backing band for rare groove luminary DJ Greyboy, The Greyboy Allstars became a longterm project for Walter with a string of critically acclaimed albums, world tours. The band quickly became home to some of the most revered players on the modern music scene.

The Greyboy Allstars' success also served as a platform for the band's individual members to launch highly successful and substantially diverse solo careers. To flex his desire to compose in a way that was just outside of Greyboy's wheelhouse, Walter formed 20th Congress and recorded and toured heavily through the late '90s and '00s.

After starting on piano, Robert developed a deep connection with the Hammond organ and its place in American musical tradition. Gospel, Jazz, soul music and psychedelic rock have all been impacted and defined by the classic grind and warble of the B3 and Leslie speaker.

He learned first-hand from masters of the instrument like Dr. Lonnie Smith, Art Neville, and Rueben Wilson. He has performed and recorded with heavyweights Fred Wesley, Roger Waters, Gary Bartz, Bernard Purdie, George Porter Jr., Skerik, Melvin Sparks, Andy Bey, Reuben Wilson, Susan Tedeschi, Harvey Mason, Alec Ounsworth, Anders Osborne, Red Holloway, Chuck Rainey, Phil Upchurch, Mike Clark, Johnny Vidacovich, Mike Gordon, and Steve Kimock.

A brilliant improviser with a gift for riveting hooks and unstoppable grooves, Walter sets out to create songs that blur the line between the composed and the spontaneous. He uses a full arsenal of keyboards, synths and electronics and draws together the varied aspects of his career, from his film soundtrack work to his free-ranging improvisational excursions.

Walter has a robust soundtrack session career in Los Angeles (with his Greyboy Allstars bandmate and renowned composer Michael Andrews) which began in 1998 when Andrews and The Greyboy Allstars were asked to score Jake Kasdan's first feature, Zero Effect.

Some of the film movie scores Walter has written for and/or performed on include Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Bridesmaids, Bad Teacher, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, The Five-Year Engagement, The Adderall Diaries, The Heat, Tammy, Sex Tape, The Big Sick, I Feel Pretty, Second Act, The Lovebirds, The King of Staten Island, Totally Killer, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, The Bubble, the HBO series Togetherness and The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling amongst others.