Ricardo considers his musical creativity as one his most outstanding talents and believes music to be the ultimate form of freedom of expression. He feels music to be the most universal of all languages and acknowledges that to understand music is the key to ultimate expression. He is well adept in many instruments, styles and formats and cites his eclectic musical upbringing as a key factor in his now varied musical passions. From Guitar, to Hip Hop, to Film Scores he is constantly looking to learn more and feel more about music, and has been influenced by sources as varied as Joe Satriani, Henry Rollins, Prince, John Williams and John Carpenter.
Ricardo has been a student and teacher of the guitar for many years, starting to play from around the age of 16 after hearing “Flying In A Blue Dream” by Joe Satriani. He specifically remembers the exact moment he first heard that track and has been delving into the wonders of the guitar ever since. He considers Satriani to be his biggest influence in this field, and also closely follows the work of Steve Vai, Eric Johnson and Steve Lukather to name just a few influences.
He started to teach from a very early point in his own learning and saw the true potential of others in learning something new with students asking to learn material that opened up his styles into Rock, Metal, Blues, Jazz, Classical and Eastern Music. If he did not know how to play something a student wanted to learn….he would learn it first.
He uses Ibanez Guitars exclusively and seeks to bring his improvisational skills to ever new levels of expression and freedom. Whatever he feels he wants to play, he wants the technical ability to be able to do so and so has mastered many styles and techniques.
Ricardo writes the music for all his own films and other directors films also. He had a love for the art of Film Scoring long before he actually began making films himself. With a passion for the works of John Williams, Bennard Hermann, John Carpenter, Thomas Newman and James Horner, Ricardo feels that no matter how good a director or how good the footage is…the music can lift a piece into a completely different level and alter the tone. The art of scoring a movie soundtrack, be it timed and cued to the images, or simply to set tone, is an art he intends to develop and grow in as he scores his own work.
