Robas began his musical career as a guitarist, working with singers such as Arik Sinai, Matti Caspi, and Shlomo Artzi.
Initially, he wrote songs for other artists – Arik Sinai, Ilanit, Nurit Galron, the musical band Sexta, Vardina Cohen, Harela Ber, Ofira Yosefi, Esti Katz, Pnina Rosenblum and others.
The successful songs of this album are Ani Ba Habaita MeHaLayla (I'm Coming Home from the Night) and Davar Lo Kara (Nothing Happened).
by Erez Tal and Avri Gilad, playing the part of Jimmy Ohana – a singer singing humorous parodies of well-known Israeli songs (Robas also later appeared in Tal and Gilad's TV show HaOlam HaErev (The World Tonight), as well as in the Israeli Educational TV programs Zehu Ze (That's It) and Roim 6/6 (Eyesight 20/20)).
Also during the 1980s his younger brother, Yoav, died of cancer during the Lebanon War, while a soldier, and was the subject of Robas' songs Makhar Hu Yakhazor (Tomorrow He Returns) and Mikhtav Katan (A Small Letter).
Robas' second album, Panim VeShemot (Faces and Names), was released in 1987, during the time he toured as a guitarist with Shlomo Artzi.
In each show, they hosted an Israeli musician, talking with him about his sources of inspiration and the process of creating singing and playing some of the artist's songs.
[3] In 1993–1994, he ran a show called SheYihye (Let It Be), dedicated to the Beatles' songs, with the keyboardist Dovi Engler, and the guitarist Amit Jurgenson.