Real name: Dr. Robert Henry Bowman

Effective period / Period of releases: 1952

Baritone gospel singer. Founded FEBC (Far East Broadcasting Company). Born March 16, 1915 California Died March 11, 2014 (98). He graduated from the Southern California Bible School in Pasadena, CA (now known as Vanguard University). In his earlier years, he was interested in cars, and winning the Indianapolis 500 was one of his highest ideals. However, his life soon took a very different turn and during the era prior to World War II, he joined a men's quartet singing with the radio program, The Haven Of Rest Quartet, singing with the group for first time on his 19th birthday in 1934. Thus was born in him a desire to use radio for the promulgation of the gospel, and immediately after the end of World War II, he partnered with his friend John Broger with the intent of introducing gospel radio programming in the Far East.
Their initial project was the broadcast of programming over radio station in Nanjing, China, though due to the many difficulties they encountered in China, they transferred their interest to the Philippine Islands. In 1945, they incorporated their organization, as the Far East Broadcasting Company; and their very first radio station was inaugurated in 1948, a station that is still on the air to this day.
On the shortwave scene, their first transmitter was a 10 kW unit that was inaugurated during the following year (1949). Over the intervening years, FEBC grew into a mighty network of AM, FM and shortwave transmitters, both within the Philippines and beyond. In 1960, they procured the famous General Electric shortwave station KGEI located near San Francisco in California.
Dr. Robert Bowman left behind a mighty legacy of local radio broadcasting stations in Asia and beyond that serve their audiences in their local languages, together with their shortwave facilities that are also speaking in many different languages. He was also well-known as Bob.