Darren Robinson (musician)

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Darren Robinson (born 24 August 1978) is an American guitarist and background singer in the Californian band, Phantom Planet. He helped form the band during his teenage years with the lead singer Alex Greenwald, and ex-band member Jason Schwartzman, in 1994.

He shares the same full name as the late lead rapper of The Fat Boys, who were a Brooklyn hip-hop music trio who emerged in the 1980s.

Robinson attended the Hamilton High School "Humanities" program in Los Angeles, California from 1994 to 1996. He decided against the Academy of Music program simply because it required an extra hour of school each day.^{[citation needed]}

He began playing guitar at the age of eleven.^{[citation needed]} He took guitar lessons for about two years and then decided to learn more about music through books and his band mates. He is fond of Gibson guitars.

Darren is also the primary author of the Phantom Planet blog, and seems to be the main source of information regarding the band and its progress.

[edit] Solar Artwork

Darren recently started a creative project creating pieces of handmade artwork, using the technique of focusing the sun's rays to burn designs into pieces of wood. He created a Myspace page, [1].