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Robert Fripp - the guitarist has expanded the horizon of pop music with his radical, innovative and creative ideas - touching new heights by crossing the barriers of set tendencies in pop music. His career as a professional guitarist started in the mid '60s with he accompanying the American singers' entourage to England - the journey he is still into with his live soundscape performance in the USA in 2005 - Love Cannot Bear. What spell bounds about Robert Fripp is his incessant presence in the music industry with his sometime solo and mostly group albums and particularly his experimentation with technology - evolving new techniques, latest being making of sound schemes, which will be used by Window Vista - Microsoft's operating system.

Robert Fripp - a guitarist and a composer -- was born on May 16, 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. His act in the band King Crimson was such for which he will be remembered for doing the ground work on which the building of his career has been standing for more than three decades - presenting different styles - "Frippertronics" -- in music. He is married to Toyah Willcox.

Fripp started his career with an album in 1968 - The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, which resulted very soon into a group named King Crimson. With the release of In the Court of King Crimson in 1969, Fripp and his rock group became famous with Fripp taking the group to new heights till 1974.

Fripp also contributed through many side projects. His two albums with Brian Eno - No Pussyfooting (1972) and Evening Star 1974 are examples of experiments named "Frippertronics", producing humming sounds through layers of guitars and tape loops. His other albums are records of experiments in jazz.

Fripp remained absent from the music world for three years when he dissolved King Crimson in 1974 and later on reappeared with David Bowie's "Heroes", followed by producing and playing on Peter Gabriel's and later on with Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs. His solo album - Exposure - was released in 1979, "God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manner in 1980 and in 1981, he reorganized King Crimson. Fripp also started a new band - The League of Gentlemen. King Crimson again got disbanded after releasing three albums; The League of Gentlemen broke up following King Crimson's disbanding.

Fripp entered into teaching line - schooling the League of Crafty Guitarists after a release - God Save the King - in 1985. In the year 1986, an album with his students - crafty guitarists - was released. This year also saw the release of one of his collaborations with wife Toyah Wilcox. Later on in the year 1994, King Crimson of '80 s group was revived. Thrank was released in 1995; That Which Passes - a solo recording - was released in 1997.Fripp CDs and Cassette Packs are available on his official website.