In 2008 Darek Cline Cobbs graduated at age 17 from Portage Northern High School, where he was actively involved as a percussionist in the Wind Ensemble band. That same year he won the PAS Larie Londin Scholarship.



Hailing from Portage, MI, Darek attends Christian Life Center and is co-music director of its 12-member band, in which he plays drums and keyboard. Many of the instrumental arrangements attest to his sensitivity in regard to music structure

and composition.



Darek Cobbs has performed locally at District 211 with Sean “Thunder” Wallace and with the jazz groups Knee Deep Shag and Kind of Blue at The Union in downtown Kalamazoo. Darek has also performed with gospel greats Kirk Franklin, Twinkie Clark, Byron Cage

and other gospel luminaries.



His 2006 instrumental cd release, 'Take Me Higher', contains a mixture of Darek’s original compositions in such styles as gospel, jazz, rock, praise and worship, ballad and soul. Beginning in Fall 2008, Darek Cline Cobbs will study at the Berklee College of Music in

Boston.