We recently connected with Robert Kuhn and have shared our conversation below.
Robert, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?
La Izquierda Surf and Music Festival is a 501 C3 nonprofit community organizing group that hosts a longboard surf competition and music festival that brings together some of the most relevant artists in the area and the local communities of the Gulf Coast to unite around a frequency that is both uplifting and healing. I’ve been a musician and artist my whole life and have a deep admiration for the ocean and surfing in particular. Through La Izquierda I express the meaning and beauty I’ve experienced on the many different avenues I’ve walked and get to see others joyfully sharing it with me. People like it, it grows every year and has significance on a seemingly infinite amount of levels and layers.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
Robert Kuhn is a songwriter, author, poet and musician who was born and raised in Houston, TX until the age of 18 when he left on a long road of the artist. He first studies literature and mathematics at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania where he received a scholarship as an Academic All American Linebacker. By 22, he’d bought a one way ticket to South America where he spent the next decade living in indigenous villages and learning about life. He returned to Texas at the age of 32 and found work in a shirt factory and law office while he slowly developed career as a musician and writer. He soon found the ocean again and moved to the coast to start a family and build the community organizing movement La Izquierda Surf and Music Festival and the rocknroll band GALVEZTON.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
I was on tour with a band in 2019 and suffered a catastrophic automobile accident that sent me into a Colorado hospital for two weeks as I struggled for survival. I eventually began to retain oxygen levels and strength enough to live, and although half of the tour was cancelled, I got a new used minivan and the bass player drove us across the country to New York City where reconnected with the band and finished the last East Coast leg of the tour back to Texas.
I got home and recorded the album PERSEVERE.
Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
Fun and Joy
Contact Info:
- Website: GALVEZTON.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/glvztn
- Facebook: Facebook.com/galveztontheband
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kuhn-286136105?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
- Twitter: twitter.com/galvezton
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@galvezton9085
- Other: laizquierdafest.org
Image Credits
Samantha Wiley