Robert Honeysucker

Robert E. Honeysucker, Jr. (January 14, 1943 – October 7, 2017) was an American baritone. He grew up in the United States South in the 1960s, joined the youth division of the NAACP and worked to register voters for John F. Kennedy. He was a teacher and conducted a choir at Tougaloo College in Mississippi before moving to Boston in 1972. In Boston, he became a regular performer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Boston Lyric Opera. An oratorio, he was known for performances in Mendelssohn's Elijah and Handel’s Messiah. was a preacher. He was one of four children of Robert Sr. and Willa Ann Honeysucker.

Other roles Honeysucker was known for include Rigoletto, Sharpless, Germont, and Iago.

Press mentions Honeysucker was hailed by the Boston Globe as “a fixture of Boston’s musical landscape over some four decades.”