Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt holds a quietly heroic place in my mind. A founder of Soft Machine and a pillar of the Canterbury scene, he was a drummer and singer until a 1973 fall left him paraplegic, after which he reinvented himself across new instruments and a forty-year solo career. To me his trembling, tender voice carries pain transmuted into grace; he turned catastrophe into some of the most humane music I know. His honorary doctorate from Liège feels fitting. Far from the commercial mainstream, Wyatt is the kind of artist who is revered slowly, deeply, and for the right reasons.

Name (English)

Robert Wyatt

Name (Japanese)

ロバート・ワイアット

Reading

ろばーと・わいあっと

Born

January 28, 1945 (age 81)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

Origin

Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom

Occupation

drummer / singer / composer / recording artist / rock musician

Awards & achievements

• MOJO Awards
• 2009 Honorary doctor of the University of Liège

• Official sitehttps://www.strongcomet.com/wyatt/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Wyatt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312693

Tags

• Avon
• drummer
• singer
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.