Kent Robbins

{{short description|American songwriter}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Kent M. Robbins

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| background = non_performing_personnel

| birth_name = Kent Marshall Robbins

| birth_date = {{birth date|1947|04|23}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|12|27|1947|04|23}}

| origin = Mayfield, Kentucky, United States

| genre = Country

| occupation = Songwriter

| years_active = 1974–1997

| associated_acts = Buzz Cason
Charley Pride

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Kent Marshall Robbins (April 23, 1947 – December 27, 1997) was an American country music songwriter.

Robbins was born in Mayfield, Kentucky. He began writing for Charley Pride's Pi-Gem music in 1974. Between then and his death, he wrote songs for several other country music artists. Among his compositions was "Love Is Alive" by The Judds, for which he received a Grammy Award nomination in 1985. Robbins also founded a publishing company in 1981 with songwriter Buzz Cason.{{cite web|url=http://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/fame/robbins.html |title=Kent Robbins |access-date=2008-06-27 |work=Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908161056/http://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/fame/robbins.html |archive-date=September 8, 2007 }}

Robbins died in an automobile accident outside Clanton, Alabama in 1997. One year after his death, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rg0EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22trace+adkins%22+%22every+light+in+the+house%22&pg=PA44 |title=Lifelines - Deaths |magazine=Billboard |date=1998-01-17}}