Robert Joseph “Rob” Coombes (born 27 April 1972) is an English musician and keyboard player for
Supergrass.
He is the older brother of the band's lead singer,
Gaz Coombes
Gaz Coombes (born 8 March 1976) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band Supergrass. He first entered the music scene aged 14 as the lead singer of the ...
, and the most recent member to join
Supergrass, officially joining in 2002, though he had been an unofficial member for the majority of the band's career to that point. He has played keyboards on all of the band's albums and tours as well as helping with the writing and arranging.
He favours the
Hammond Organ, for which his playing has been described as “the perfect foil to Gaz’s guitar bombast”.
He lives in Oxford with his three children, Louis, Lila and Ailla. He has a second, younger, brother,
Charly
''Charly'' (marketed and stylized as ''CHAЯLY'') is a 1968 American drama film directed and produced by Ralph Nelson and written by Stirling Silliphant. It is based on ''Flowers for Algernon'', a science-fiction short story (1958) and subseque ...
, who was keyboard player in the band
22–20s.
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Britpop musicians
English expatriates in the United States
English keyboardists
Music in Oxford
musicians from Oxford
Supergrass members
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