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Released: Jan 1, 2008
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  • Genre: Blues / Jazz / Surf

    Location Conegliano, Un

    Profile Views: 22168

    Last Login: 5/13/2013

    Member Since 11/27/2006

    Website www.riccardogrosso.com

    Record Label RGMusic

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    I don't think writing a lot of things about me will be good. Something I show is only the tip of the iceberg, and I don't like to appear, I better like to be. There's a lot of luck in what I'm doing and on all the friends and people I've met all around the world thru the years. People I've played with, people I've learned from, people I've got drunk with, people I've talked with...Everyone is a little drop of luck and a very important sign on my soul. You know who you are and I don't need (and don't want) to write names here. I better like to have you all next to me for many and many years. About my music I can say I've started to play harmonica at age of 16 after I've bought my first VCR and seeing The Blues Brothers movie I've told to myself "If Dan Aykroyd plays harmonica, well I'm gonna play harp too!". I got my first harp the day after...I still remember that it was a cheap Huang. I've bought some CDs of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Paul Butterfield, James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite, Junior Wells and many more. I've started to learn harmonica. Well when I was thinking I was a good harp player and I was about to reach a kind of "finish line"...I've started to see how long is the road of the music. It's endless and that's the most important thing about me and the music. I never get tired to listen and learn. With the learn I'm not saying I want to learn technique...I don't like hyper technique...I'm trying to learn to take off all the filters from my heart and connect my heart, my blood and my soul to the music. That's what the real thing is for me. Well I'm supposed to be a singer too. It just happened. They "hired" me in a band and they needed a singer. They told me: "You are a harp player, you surely sing too!"...I wasn't so sure "Do you really believe that?"...so I gotta start to sing. I've put myself into singing attitude a lot...trying to avoid teachers (they use to approach the blues singers as pop singers, at least the ones I've met). In this way I could discover my voice, what I can really do with that and trying to have that blue notes and blues groove I need. I'm still trying to find a lot of secrets...like for the harp. Amazing huh?

  • Members

    There's a lot of musician I've played with. Everyone gave me something as human being and something as musician. There's always something to listen to and something to learn from everyone. Thanks to them I could carve my style and being always in a kind of evolution, without losing my identity as musicians. The musicians I'm working with right now are: Francesco Greggio - with The Surfbirds (my duo) Stefano Pagotto, Massimo Fantinelli, Andrea De Luca - with RGBand (my band) Ricky Bizzarro and Edu Hebling with Broken Poets and Simone Chivilò and Claudio Valente with Nel Pop Dipinto Di Blues. Sometimes I work with others too, you know music is about meeting people and musicians. Everyone I'm working with, even for a gig, are good ones...so I can call myself lucky!

  • Influences

    All kind of music. Louis Armstrong once said: "There's only two kinds of music: good one and bad one!". For me the bad music is the one written only for showing tits, asses and with money on writer's mind. Everyone likes money, but you can earn them in several ways. My influences is all the good music. You'll never find me listening to Britney Spears or bullshits like that. Good music hit you no matter where you are and no matter who you are and last forever. Bad music hit you only because of the place or because of the vogue and don't last too long.

  • Sounds Like

    Mmm...quite hard to explain. I love to mix Blues with latin and cuban music, rock and roll, rockabilly, funk, rhythm and blues (Atlantic, Stax Volt...and similar), jazz, zydeco, roots...So it's a good recipe. But sometimes when I play some really blues on my stereo I find where my heart really is. It's like travelling all around the world, but you know where you want to stay.

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