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Robert Sweet

American musician (born 1960)

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Also known as Robert Lee Sweet

Born: March 21, 1960
Birthplace: Lynwood
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: drummer

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Robert Lee Sweet is an American musician, drummer, and co-founder of the heavy metal band Stryper. Sweet initiated the band that would become Stryper while still a teenager, later recruiting his younger brother Michael Sweet — who was around 13 at the time — and establishing the group's musical and visual identity from the outset. He is widely known as Stryper's "Visual Time Keeper", a title he coined himself. Writing in Billboard, critic Ethlie Ann Vare described Sweet as "easily the most interesting aspect of the show" at a December 1984 Stryper concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

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Given name: Robert
Website: stryper.com language: English
Genre: Christian metal
Start of work period: 1975
Sex or gender: male
Social media followers: 18,031(February 5, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 316779140
18,214(January 27, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 316779140
19,122(January 8, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 316779140
Member of: Stryper
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