Rob Araujo.

Rob Araujo is a Los Angeles–based pianist, saxophonist, and producer whose work moves between jazz, electronic music, hip-hop, and neo-soul. Classically trained at the piano from age five and a music minor at Cornell, he has built an independent catalogue across more than a decade — releasing on his own terms while accumulating hundreds of millions of streams and a direct audience that has followed him from project to project.

His collaborative work spans sessions, writing, and performance for Tom Misch, T-Pain, Snoh Aalegra, Masego, Mac Ayres, Loyle Carner, Saba, Ab-Soul, and others. Among musicians he is best known for his synth solo on Tom Misch's "South of the River," widely transcribed and covered online.

He opened for Tom Misch on tour in 2018 and Anomalie in 2019, and has performed across sixteen countries; festival appearances include Coachella. His latest record, Nakama (March 2026), is a thirteen-track set drawing on Japanese imagery and the harmonic vocabulary he has developed across a decade of independent releases.

He has begun extending that vocabulary into film, television, and game scoring, alongside ongoing work in solo piano. Off-stage, Rob has taught as a guest artist at The New School in NYC and continues to teach privately, with much of the writing and production process taking place live on Twitch.