Only son of a high school choir teacher and a manager of a sporting goods company, Robert studied piano and voice from a young age.

Beginning in his teens, he began playing in bands. Eventually he landed gigs in the Poconos and Catskills regions, learning the stages lessons of how to demand attention from an audience and how to entertain any group any time.

Eventually he began to do studio work. And from there moved to producing demo recordings. Eventually, one of his demo tapes led to the artist getting a recording contract, and he began to do work for record labels as a musician and producer. Eventually, he moved into the label A/R department and produced such platinum artists as Savage Garden and Everlast.

Hitting the ceiling at Sony/Columbia's A/R department, Robert accepted an offer from Carlos Kerbasi Enterprises to start their own record label. He moved to the city and found success with several artists, including bianca rosa, Rayna Johns and Kaylee Bradshaw.

One afternoon a mugging on one of the City's piers went wrong and Gast was shot, with the bullet lodging in his back between the L4 and L5 vertebra.

He's now working for Raymond Shaw and RSI as director of Entertainment and Restaurants. Officially he's over #r-raymonds(Raymonds), #r-hooligans(Hooligans Iris Pub), #r-141(141), #r-3fingers(3 Fingers of Jazz), #r-kingyum(King Yum Buffet)