Bob Sima
“The highest aim of our music is to reveal the essence of the universe it reflects.”
~Ravi Shankar
Mysticism Meets Music
Bob brings you to the present moment with very little distraction, just impactful lyrics and a guitar. Every song imparts a mystical quality. It is a hypnotic “song bath”, where the messages land unencumbered on the heart. His concerts go from foot stomp to pin drop, often in the middle of a song. This music is not for the passive listener; it beckons for more.
“Everyone needs to hear Bob’s song Be the Change.”
— Marianne Williamson, Author & Presidential Candidate
"I dare anyone to see Bob perform and NOT walk away feeling inspired to love the world just a little bit better."
— Ray Proetto
“My favorite things are spirituality and transformation, learning and development, and the creative/musical arts. With Bob Sima you have it all. Joy and delight always come with great performances, but with Bob Sima there is more. This is an artist that inspires reflection and revelation, relaxation and insight and left brain/right brain synergy. After a Bob Sima event (I would call it an event, not a concert), you feel you have touched sacred depths, been uplifted by positive vibrations, and been immersed in an experience you wish all the world could have. I hope Bob keeps spreading these profound experiences, these messages and his music.”
“Each and every song is a master class in spirituality and life.”
— OM Times
“Bob is picking up where John Lennon left off.”
— Americana Community Music Association
“In three minutes from the stage he communicated via song what took me an hour to say in my talk.”
— Dr Guy Reikman, Former President of Life University
Discography
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released 2006
Bob’s first solo album
Tracks:
Amazed By You
Last Resort
Follow the Love
Pretty
Gravity
Open Your Arms
Stay Small
Any Better
May You Always Be
Morning Comes Along Too Soon
Will I Find You There
Your Phone Call
Ruby Red Kiss
Don’t Die With Your Music
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released 2008
Tracks:
Map in My Lap
Garden of Hope
Just Hold Me
Periphery
In Between
Wear It Well
Moon Draws Water
Over Your Head
Strongest Roots
Ruby
Carry You With Me
Sunshine and Blue Skies
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released 2012
Tracks:
Shine
The Looser the Grip
Peace Signs and Laugh Lines
If Only
It’s Amazing
How You Made Them Feel
Be The Change
Perfectly Fine With Me
As Above So Below
Wild Pony
Everything is Music
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released 2014
Tracks:
I Am
putalittlemoreloveintheworld
Breathe
Book of Love
I Am Here
Queen of the Forest
Grand Design
Happening for You
Bit My Tongue
Center of You Center of Me
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released 2014
acoustic album
Tracks:
Presence
Trying to Speak to You
Believe the Bird
God of Love
What About Those Angels
(w)hole in the World
I Don’t Believe in Death
I Hear a Symphony
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released 2016
Tracks:
Right in Front of You
It’s Time
Your Heart and Mine
Meditation is the Medication
Kiss God
Noohra (We Are the Ones)
Because You Are Light
If You Knew Me Better
Easy Does It
Same Energy
Someone is Thinking of You
Grateful World
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released 2016
meditation album
Tracks:
A Thousand Cups of Tea
Something Amazing
God Approaches
(meditation) Become the Wind
I Am the One
Om Sweet Om
Say Grace
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released 2018
Tracks:
The Movers The Shakers & The Peacemakers
Be Humble Be Hungry Be Love
No Mud No Lotus
If Your Hand was in Mine
I Never Wrote You a Love Song
Something’s Gotta Burn
Ho’oponopono
Healed People
Metta
If You Could See Our Heart
Insignificant Somethings
The One and Only Song
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released 2020
Tracks:
Good Words Good Thoughts Good Deeds
The Measure
A Promise
Longer Table
These Mountains
Bring Your Heart to Me
Do You Wander
They Hide It
Raise the Vibe
Don’t Stare
Together We Rise
The Song Gets a Little Bit Louder
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released 2024
Tracks:
New Levels New Devils
Everything You Buried
The Obstacle
You Get What You Are
A Reason
I’ve Got Friends
Holy Green Tree
The Lure
Never Finished
Powerful
I Am the Sky
Critical Thinking
Back Around Again
I Don’t Know (and That’s Alright)
Bob Sima is an award-winning singer-songwriter based in Rockledge FL. In 2013 he began touring nationally after leaving behind a corporate career to pursue his purpose. With no formal musical training, he independently released 10 albums with a fierce determination to make a difference in people’s lives. He built a national following one concert at a time. Without a record label or manager, his music serves thousands of lives with spiritually-rich musical nourishment.
Bob and his wife, Shannon Plummer — a life coach, singer, writer, and speaker — travel and perform as a musical duo. They also steward a non-profit called Where the Light Gets In Ministries (WTLGI). WTLGI is charged with offering transformational music to places it is needed the most. Together they also facilitate personal development retreats. The music is also creatively woven into workshop format where the songs become guides or complements for experiential exercises that help open growth pathways for participants.
His songwriting is laser-focused on the human experience, inner work, wonder, meaning, and living a conscious existence. He writes each song as self-prescribed medicine. He consumes it first, then prescribes it to others. Along with his alternative writing path, his song craft is familiar and inviting. He leads his audience on a journey of self-discovery.
Bob’s concerts are less of a performance and more experiential in nature, often weaving intentional silences and meditative moments to allow the song’s messages to land fully. It has been said that his concerts go from pin drop to foot stomp.
Cross multiple genres and communities, his songwriting awards include:
Grand Prize at Wildflower Songwriting Contest,
Kerrville New Folk two-time Finalist,
Finalist at Mountain Stage Live Round,
American Songwriter Magazine Contest Finalist,
Global Peace Song Contest Winner,
Six-time Positive Music Award Winner
VIDEOS
Everything You Buried
from the album New Levels New Devils
(w)hole in the World
from the album Believe the Bird
These Mountains
from the album Good Words Good Thoughts Good Deeds
Right in Front of You
from the album It’s Time
Same Energy
from the album It’s Time
A Promise
from the album Good Words Good Thoughts Good Deeds
Meditation is the Medication
from the album It’s Time
No Mud No Lotus
from the album The Movers The Shakers & The Peacemakers
A tad more about Bob
Bob Sima (pronounced sEYE-ma) is to music what Wayne Dyer, Don Miguel Ruiz, and Eckhart Tolle are to books and Rumi, Hafiz, and David Whyte are to poetry. He is a troubadour, a way-shower, a guide, an awakener, and a musical mystic through the medium of melody. His music bridges daily life and soul consciousness, the eternal with the now through instantly accessible songs that take up residence and resonance in your soul. When Sima opens his mouth to sing, what emerges is far beyond the human sounds of his warm and soulful voice. He speaks the language of the Universe, the language of the soul, the language of the heart. He’s not just singing to his audience. He is the musical navigation that guides people to reconnect to themselves and to each other. The music that comes through him will vibrate with your spirit exactly where you are.
THE SONGWRITER, Bob Sima, through the eyes of Shannon Plummer:
Bob often refers to the music as “our music”, giving me much more credit than I deserve. He is the songwriter with zero input from me and I would not have it any other way. I remind him of this at times because I feel it is important to honor the role that we each steward in recognizing and accepting and sharing the gifts bestowed upon and through us. That said, I am honored that I can sprinkle harmonies into his creations and one of my favorite things is to perform in concert with him. Why? Because I need his reminders as much as anyone else! I have never seen anyone who can translate the emotions of every day experiences with such poetic justice as Bob Sima. I am fortunate to be an observer to his creative process that continually, tirelessly, and relentlessly births new ideas into songs that could be as secular or as sacred as you - the listener - wish them to be. I witness Bob’s full spectrum of creativity on a daily basis. Sometimes it is the simplest transaction that inspires a four-day songwriting project that finally catches up with his unstructured, informal, “untrained" style. Other times I watch the most complex or controversial human challenges call forth a 10-minute, performance-ready transcription of a song. How he gets to the end result is less important than what he allows himself to feel in either scenario. From an outsider’s opinion, Bob’s “why” is based on his desire to share the transformative energies of life’s questions, rather than to focus on the unresolved energies of the moment that created the question. The beauty for the listener is that his lyrics will find a place to your heart. Period. You then possess the ability to hold the messages at the surface and enjoy a catchy tune while you drive around town or to allow the messages to penetrate the depths of your heart and inspire action as your own activated truth.