Robert Arellano (born July 12, 1969) is an American writer, musician and educator from Talent, Oregon.

[citation needed] His guitar-playing for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is featured on 'I See a Darkness', which Pitchfork magazine named one of the Top 10 albums of the 1990s,[2] and since the 1980s he has been writing and recording songs for solo projects and his group Havanarama.

[citation needed] His most recent novel, Havana Libre, about the 1997 terrorist bombings of tourist destinations in Cuba, was published by Akashic Books in 2017.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) on the albums I See a Darkness, More Revery, and Joya as well as in performance and on recordings with Papa M (David Pajo), Jodie Jean Marston, the Pathetics and Havanarama.

In March of 2000, Arellano organized an international music exchange in Havana and Pinar del Rio, Cuba called "Rock the Blockade"[8] featuring Cuban performers in concert with Will Oldham, Papa M, Speed to Roam, and Havanarama.