Growing up in an impoverished neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, survival was the name of the game. Families improvised and did whatever they could to get by. For many years Reggie's parents ran an "after hours joint" in back of the family home and became infamous suppliers of bootlegged whiskey. As a child, Reggie was like a moth to a light bulb, he couldn't stay away from the music. "Little Reggie" would sneak in the joint and sing along with the juke box for a nickel a song. He learned every 45 on the box, from Otis Redding to Billie Holiday. As his voice deepened so did his repertoire. He sang anywhere he could, including church.

Eventually music took Reggie across the United States and then across the Atlantic Ocean . As an expatriate living in the Czech Republic, the Reginald Pinckney Trio toured through Eastern Europe. Now living in Seattle, the Reginald Pinckney Quartet gigs around the Seattle area with various side trips to other areas of the state and an occasional cruise ship! Reggie has just released his first studio recording "First Path".