Roger Powell[1] (born March 14, 1949) is an American musician, programmer, and magazine columnist best known for his membership with the rock band Utopia.

It was praised by Billboard magazine's reviewer as "...a fascinating, demanding LP that has all the hypnotic eeriness of the recent Miles Davis approach";[6] Village Voice critic Robert Christgau called it "the best pop electronicism since Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air.

In October 2006, after a long absence from music recording, he released Fossil Poets[9] with musicians Gary Tanin and Greg Koch.

[13] On September 7, 2009, Powell once again shared the stage with Rundgren as part of a re-constituted Utopia, with Tubes drummer Prairie Prince replacing Willie Wilcox.

Powell's talents led eventually to positions with WaveFrame (an "audio mainframe" synthesizer used by Peter Gabriel), Silicon Graphics and Alias/Wavefront.