Frederick Jay Rubin was born in Long Beach, New York and grew up in Lido Beach, New York. His father, Michael (Mickey), was a shoe wholesaler and his mother Linda a housewife. He is of Jewish descent. While a student at Long Beach High School he befriended the school's audiovisual department director Steve Freeman who gave him a few lessons in guitar playing and songwriting. He then played in a band with childhood friends, performing at garage and school shows for town friends until a teacher helped him create a punk band called The Pricks. Their biggest claim to fame was being thrown off the stage at CBGB after two songs for brawling with the heckling audience, who were friends of the band instructed to instigate a confrontation so as to get the show shut down and create a buzz.
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Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin | Early life
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what is into the groove?
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"Into the Groove" is a song
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American singer Madonna
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Stephen Bray
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It was performed during The Virgin Tour in 1985
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how was this tour received by the critics?
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The tour received generally mixed reviews from critics
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can you name a place that this tour covered?
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Tampa and Orlando, Florida
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Beastie Boys, DJ Rick Rubin
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Rick" Rubin is a DJ and American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records.
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Moranis was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a Jewish family. He went to elementary school with Geddy Lee, frontman of the rock band Rush. His Jewish ancestors are of Hungarian extraction, coming from Kolozsvár, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Cluj-Napoca, Romania).
Rick Moranis | Early life
Rubin was born on June 26, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York, New York. He grew up in a "fairly secular Jewish household on Long Island". He spent his adolescence in Syosset, New York, and then he resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for thirteen years. He attended Binghamton University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science.
Dave Rubin | Early life
Frederick Jay Rubin was born in Long Beach, New York and grew up in Lido Beach, New York. His father, Michael (Mickey), was a shoe wholesaler and his mother Linda a housewife. He is of Jewish descent. While a student at Long Beach High School he befriended the school's audiovisual department director Steve Freeman who gave him a few lessons in guitar playing and songwriting. He then played in a band with childhood friends, performing at garage and school shows for town friends until a teacher helped him create a punk band called The Pricks. Their biggest claim to fame was being thrown off the stage at CBGB after two songs for brawling with the heckling audience, who were friends of the band instructed to instigate a confrontation so as to get the show shut down and create a buzz.
Rick Rubin | Early life
Rubin was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma and grew up in Norman, Oklahoma. He first arrived in Austin on August 28, 1987. As of 2014 he lives and works in New Orleans.
Mark Rubin (musician) | Early life
Although he had no authority in New York City, Rubin's father traveled from Nassau County, New York, to Manhattan wearing his Long Beach auxiliary police uniform as he attempted to "shut down" the show.
Rick Rubin | Early life
Jordan Rubin was born in New York City, NY, where he was also raised. He earned a degree from NYU.
Jordan Rubin | Early life
Born Ricardo Ruiz Pérez on June 3, 1986 and raised in his native Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. His inclination for music developed at an early age. Having been exposed to all the positive aspects of being bicultural, he would spend a vast majority of his childhood with his Panamanian Dad listening to Salsa, Soca and to the Reggae music of El General, Nando Boom and various other musical exponents prevalent at that time in the country. That led him to experiment fluidly with sounds and discover through the years his own musical abilities. At the age of 3, he and his friend, producer and guitarist Reynold Martinez, began dabbling in music.
Ricky Rick | Early life
Rubin was born on March 28, 1960, into a Jewish family in New York City, and raised in the village of Larchmont, in Westchester County, New York. He is the son of Harvey Rubin, a publisher and President of Pindar Press, and his wife, Judith ("née" Lowe), who trained students specializing in psychiatry.
James Rubin | Early life
Rubinstein was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. His younger brother, born in 1952, is Donald Rubinstein, a composer who wrote the music for some of the films and series Rubinstein produced. Rubinstein received an undergraduate degree from American University, and an MBA from Columbia University.
Richard P. Rubinstein | Early life and family
Rubin was born in Manhattan and raised in Westchester County, New York. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in history, graduating with honors in 1988. In 1991, he received a Master's in Creative Writing from Boston University, where he studied under Leslie Epstein.
Richard Rubin (writer) | Early life and education
Nowels was born in Palo Alto, California.
Rick Nowels | Early life
He also played in rock bands he formed with friends beginning in junior high school, and began playing outside gigs in high school. Eventually Rubin met and became a student of jazz drummer Freddie Gruber.
Eddie Rubin | Early life
Rubin was born as Edward Donald Rubin in Cleveland, Ohio, to George and Betty Rubin. He relocated to Venice, Los Angeles, California with his mother when he was ten years old. Rubin's interest in drumming and percussion began and developed by pounding on boxes and playing rhythms on pots and pans in his parents’ kitchen. His parents started him on drum lessons at the age of five. After several years of continuing his pastime of drumming informally at home, Rubin joined band class when he entered junior high school and continued taking band classes throughout junior high and high school when he attended Venice High School in Venice, California.
Eddie Rubin | Early life
Grundy was born in Los Angeles, California, United States who graduated from high school at 15 years old, and went on to the University of Southern California to study music at their conservatory of music.
Rickey Grundy | Early life
Rubin was born June 22, 1946 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. His father, Simon, owned a furniture and bedding factory and his mother, Leona (nee Greenstone) was an artist and international travel writer. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
Andrew Rubin | Early years
Rubinstein was born in New York City, and educated at Swarthmore College and Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
William Rubinstein | Early life
We became, maybe, an inspiration to Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, Linkin Park – all these other bands that are doing that now." Run-D.M.C., The Beastie Boys, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers all shared a common producer: Rick Rubin. In many ways, he may be considered the father of Rap Rock.
Rap rock | Early development (1980s)
Djawadi was born in Duisburg, West Germany, to a German mother and an Iranian father, and studied at Berklee College of Music.
Ramin Djawadi | Early life
Richard Bryan Altizer was born on August 13, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Rick Altizer | Early life
Rubio was born to a Mexican father and a Guatemalan mother.
Rubio Rubin | Personal life
Rubin was born and raised in Flemington, New Jersey and graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School in 2001. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University in 2005 with a double major in Spanish and History. He is an accomplished ragtime piano player.
Richard Rubin (TV personality) | Personal life
The song was listened to in some circles. His first CD was recorded in Nashville at the Oak Ridge Boys studio with his favorite musicians Chad Watson, Randy Corell, Tony_Brown_(record_producer), J.T. Taylor recording / mix engineer Fred Cameron.
Rick Denzien | Early life
Robert Eibach was born July 6 in Scranton, PA and attended college at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. While in college, Eibach began recording and remixing songs. He moved to Los Angeles, CA after graduating school.
Robert Eibach | Early life
In March 1984, when NYU student Rick Rubin and promoter-manager Russell Simmons founded the then-independent Def Jam label, 16 year–old St. Albans, Queens native James Todd Smith was creating demo tapes in his grandparents' home. His grandfather, a jazz saxophonist, purchased him $ 2,000 worth of stereo equipment, including two turntables, an audio mixer and an amplifier. Smith later discussed his childhood background and rapping, stating that "By the time I got that equipment, I was already a rapper. In this neighborhood, the kids grow up in rap. It's like speaking Spanish if you grow up in an all-Spanish house.
Radio (LL Cool J album) | Background
Horovitz was born and raised on Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York, the son of Doris (née Keefe) and playwright Israel Horovitz. His sister is film producer Rachael Horovitz. His father is Jewish, whereas his mother, who was of Irish descent, was Roman Catholic. He was raised secular.
Ad-Rock | Early life
Rubin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1950, attending the Boston Latin School. Rubin completed his undergraduate degree in biology at MIT, working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory during the summer. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, working at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1974, for studies on 5.8S ribosomal RNA supervised by Sydney Brenner.
Gerald M. Rubin | Education and early life
Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin (; born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons, he is the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings and also established American Recordings. With the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Geto Boys, and Run-DMC, Rubin helped popularize hip hop music. In 2007, MTV called him "the most important producer of the last 20 years", and the same year, Rubin appeared on "Time"'s 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Rick Rubin | Introduction
James Rubin was born on May 4th, 1944. He was educated at Phillips Andover, Yale (B.A.), Harvard (PhD) and the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie of the Sorbonne in Paris (license-ès-lettres).
James H. Rubin | Early life and education
Shaw was born and raised in East St. Louis, Illinois.
Rick Shaw (radio) | Early life
Salomon was born and raised in Neptune Township, New Jersey. He is of Jewish descent.
Rick Salomon | Early life
Rickles was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, grew up in Loxahatchee, Florida, and is Jewish. His parents are Linda and Ken Rickles. He has a younger brother, Andrew, who is a U.S. Army Veteran. In January 2018, he launched a blog, "My Life & Baseball", to share his journey with the fans.
Nick Rickles | Early and personal life
Baker was born in Binghamton, New York, to Doris (née Hamlin), a bank teller, and Ralph B. Baker, a professional artist. Baker and his family moved to Covina, California when he was less than one year old.
Rick Baker | Early life
Rubin was born in Monroe, Louisiana, the son of Sam and Eileen Rubin. He attended Neville High School, lettering three years in football (winning all-district honors as a running back and punter), baseball, and basketball and twice in track.
Barry Rubin (American football) | Early life
Rick Spears is from Richmond, Virginia as is his main collaborator Rob G., although they did not actually meet until after they left: "[we] have lived sort of parallel lives. We're from the same place, went to the same college and have a bunch of the same friends but we never met until we both moved to Brooklyn."
Rick Spears | Early life
Coonce was born in Los Angeles, California on August 1, 1946, at The City Of Angels Hospital. He attended a Catholic school for six years while his mother worked to support the family. His father played the fiddle and his mother sang. Coonce developed an interest in music at an early age by observing his parents and his older brother's guitar lessons, though his mother insisted he learn the accordion. He attended high school in Simi Valley and played in local bands in between working at a Sunkist Growers packing house.
Rick Coonce | Early life
Samuel Gloade was born in the The Bronx borough of New York City. He met American record producer Mike Will Made It through his rap duo Rae Sremmurd on Twitter. He later signed to the former's record label EarDrummers Records.
30 Roc | Early life
McCrank was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, but grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Rick McCrank | Early life
Richard Marc Dufay was born in Paris, France.
Rick Dufay | Early life
Rubin grew up in Chappaqua, New York as the son of a psychologist who later founded his own direct-marketing firm. His father's firm created photographs of the latest electronic gadgets to be sent with credit card bills. He attended Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York from 1977 until 1981 and was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Utica College, Utica, New York in 1986.
Andy Rubin | Early life and education
Peter Rubin was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. His formal art training was at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League in Manhattan, New York
Peter Rubino | Early life and education
Rubin Goldmark was born in New York City in 1872, a nephew of composer Karl Goldmark, and of Jewish heritage. Goldmark completed his undergraduate studies at City College in New York. After completing his studies in the United States in 1889, Goldmark traveled to Austria, where he studied at the Vienna Conservatory until 1891. There he studied piano and composition, the former with Livonius, the latter with Johann Nepomuk Fuchs.
Rubin Goldmark | Early life
Richard Wallie Boston was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He studied jazz arrangement and composition.
Rick Boston | Early life and education
Sarzo was born in Havana, Cuba on November 18, 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1961, and was raised in Florida. His brother, Robert, is also a musician.
Rudy Sarzo | Early life
Riky Rick was born Rikhado Makhado and was raised in KwaMashu township near Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
Riky Rick | Early life
Rick Bassman was born in Northridge, California to Jewish parents. Bassman's mother, Felice, died when he was 13 years old. He attended Chaminade College Preparatory School, in Chatsworth, California. At age 16, Bassman was diagnosed with Stage 4 testicular cancer, which metastasized to both lungs, undergoing chemotherapy and surgeries from ages 16–19. He attended the University of California at Santa Barbara for one quarter, prior to dropping out to start his first business.
Rick Bassman | Early life
Meyerowitz was born in The Bronx, New York. He is the younger brother of photographer Joel Meyerowitz. He started drawing during his childhood and attended art school at Boston University.
Rick Meyerowitz | Early life
Rubinacci was born in Trastevere, Rome, Italy. He moved to England at the age of two, spending most of his childhood following his mother around where her work as an English school teacher took her, including Sicily and Birmingham. Aged 11 he met his father for the first time who worked as a piano bar player in Rome and was previously lead singer and bass player in the popular Italian band I Romans. At 14, Rubinacci followed in his father's footsteps and started writing songs and performing in school bands. His first ever performance on stage was at his school's annual music night, and can be found on YouTube.
Jack Rubinacci | Biography
La'ron was born in Cleveland, Ohio. When asked about his earliest musical memory, La'ron recalled recording a "horrible" freestyle rap on a cassette toy his mother gave him when he was around 10 years old.
KennyHoopla | Early life
Ramirez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on September 15, 1913. He grew up in New York and started playing the piano at a young age.
Ram Ramirez | Early life
Jaffee was born on March 11, 1969, in Los Angeles. When he was 13, he purchased a keyboard and was soon playing with local bands. After graduating from Fairfax High School, he continued to play in various bands, and he took session work in recording studios.
Rami Jaffee | Early life
He was born in Pueblo, Colorado. Palacio graduated from Regis University in Denver.
Rick Palacio | Early life and education
Malambri was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, to Jeannie Marie (née Egleston) and Timothy Michael Malambri. Malambri began his career as a model, having been featured in Abercrombie and Fitch ads in 2004.
Rick Malambri | Early life
RAM was born and raised in Amsterdam. He notes that his first introduction to electronic music and rave culture was in 1989 when he attended a show with some friends. RAM cites Jean-Michel Jarre as a core influence in his material.
RAM (DJ) | Early life
Rubinshteyn was born in Minsk, Belarus. He played for Tsmoki-Minsk youth team.
Roman Rubinshteyn | Early life
Sean Rickman was born in [[Georgetown, Washington, D.C.]], into a musical family. His father, [[Phil Upchurch]], worked as a guitarist and bassist with [[Michael Jackson]], [[Quincy Jones]], [[B.B. King]], [[George Benson]], [[Curtis Mayfield]], [[Cannonball Adderley]], [[John Lee Hooker]], [[Grover Washington Jr.]], [[Lenny Breau]], and [[Dizzy Gillespie]]. His mother, Renee Morris is a singer who played Mary Magdalene in "[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]" by [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]. His uncle, Joseph Morris, was a drummer with the Ohio University marching band who inspired Rickman's stick grip. Another uncle, Wayne Morris, was a DJ, who exposed him to a record collection without the bounds of genre.
Sean Rickman | Early life
SpaceGhostPurrp was born in the neighborhood of Carol City in Miami, Florida. He began rapping at age 5 and producing at age 13, attended Silver Trail Middle School in Pembroke Pines and Everglades High School in Miramar. He is of Bahamian and Cuban descent.
SpaceGhostPurrp | Early life
Rick McFarland was born in the city of Whittier, 12 miles southeast of Los Angeles. He spent his early years in Southern California and moved to Utah at the age of 10. While still in high school, he obtained his commercial pilot's license. McFarland graduated from Brigham Young University in 1996 with a BA in music.
Rick McFarland | Early life
Rubin was born in Odessa, Ukraine.
Ian Rubin | Background
Daniel Perez was born on August 14, 1994, in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, where he also grew up and learned how to produce beats.
Bugz Ronin | Early life
Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald DP camp, Wolfratshausen, Germany, the son of Polish Jews, Frania and Israel Rubinek, who was a factory worker, theatre company manager, Yiddish Theatre actor, and Talmudic scholar. Rubinek's parents were hidden by Polish farmers for over two years during World War II and moved to Canada in 1948.
Saul Rubinek | Early life
Roth was born in 1974 in Riverside, California. Gabe and his older sister, Samra, born in 1972, were raised in Riverside by their parents, Andrew and Diane Roth, both of whom practiced law in the community and worked on civil rights and discrimination cases. Roth said his early aspirations were to be a math teacher, said he never wanted to be in the music industry, never really considered it to be a career option. He said that he just kind of fell into it, being in bands.
Bosco Mann | Early life
He has lived in Rockville Centre and Merrick, New York. He attended Levy-Lakeside Elementary School and Merrick Avenue Middle School, and then went to John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore, Long Island for one year, after which he studied via an online program at the Laurel Springs School, graduating in 2014.
Noah Rubin (tennis) | Early life and education
Allen celebrated his 16th birthday with a performance at the Hammersmith Odeon, when Def Leppard opened for AC/DC.
Rick Allen (drummer) | Early life
LaRon James was born in New York City to an African-American mother and a Dominican father He was raised in the Harlem section of Manhattan and began rapping at the age of 5.
Juelz Santana | Early life
Rubinstein was born in the Bronx and grew up in Denver.
Julian Rubinstein | Biography
Bergman was born and raised in Rishon LeZion, Israel, to a Jewish family.
Ram Bergman | Early life
Rubinstein was born in Los Angeles, the son of Polish parents. His mother, Aniela (née Młynarska), a dancer and writer, was a Roman Catholic native of Warsaw, the daughter of conductor Emil Młynarski. His father was Polish-Jewish concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein. He attended El Rodeo Public School in Beverly Hills (K–2), Cours La cascade in Paris, France (1954), and St. Bernard's School (3–8) and Collegiate School (New York City) (9–12) in New York City. He studied theater and music at the University of California, Los Angeles (1964–1967), and later composition at the Juilliard School in New York.
John Rubinstein | Early life
Terzi was born on 28 June 1964 in Trabzon, Turkey. His family moved to Hattingen, Germany in the late 1960s.
DJ Quicksilver | Early life
At 10 he picked up the guitar and at 15, back in Monterrey, Ricky Rick started performing with various local bands. At 17 he learned to play percussion and drums and continued singing and performing, all the while working towards obtaining his bachelor's degree in Business from the Universidad Regiomontana de Monterrey.
Ricky Rick | Early life
Aaron Cohen is originally from Seattle, Washington. He grew up listening to Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem, Kanye West, Warren G, The Notorious B.I.G., and Cam'ron.
Aaron Cohen (rapper) | Early life
Erick Morillo was born in 1971 in New York. He spent most of his pre-teen years in Cartagena, Colombia, where he lived with his family, and grew accustomed to salsa and merengue music. He moved back to the United States at age 11, living with his mother, Elisa, and sister, Sheila, in an apartment at 1406 Bergenline Avenue in Union City, New Jersey. Influenced by other genres such as reggae, and hip hop, it was also at age 11 that he began DJing weddings for friends and family. He attended grammar school at Saint Joseph and Michael's School, a private Catholic school, graduating in 1985.
Erick Morillo | Early life
Ricks was born in Madison County, Idaho. Ricks father was Mark Ricks (1924-2016). Ricks mother was Evelyn Tonks. Ricks grew up on a potato farm. Ricks attended Madison High School.
Doug Ricks | Early life
Rubin was born on June 18, 1929, in Pásztó, a Hungarian town with a Jewish population of 120 families, one of six children (by three marriages) of shoemaker Ferenc Rubin. When Tibor was 13, Ferenc and Rosa Rubin (stepmother) tried to send him to safety in neutral Switzerland, but he was caught and sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. He was liberated 14 months later by American combat troops. Both of his parents and a sister perished in the Holocaust.
Tibor Rubin | Early life
Schron grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in an Orthodox Jewish family. His family entered the real estate business by using the proceeds from the death of his brother in World War II to purchase a small apartment building.
Rubin Schron | Early life
George Drakoulias (born 1965) is a Greek-American music producer and a former A&R executive at the American Recordings label. He is often considered a protégé of Rick Rubin. Drakoulias grew up in Syosset, New York, and attended Syosset High School, where he started his musical career with a band called Lifeline. He went to college at New York University (NYU), where he majored in music and business. There he befriended Rick Rubin, whom he met after he started dating an ex-girlfriend of Rubin's. He became one of the first hires for Rubin's Def Jam label. As an A&R man, he discovered L.L.
George Drakoulias | Introduction
Hearst was born Richard Charles Herbst on January 4, 1965, in Howard Beach, New York and raised in Dallas, Texas.
Rick Hearst | Early life
Son of Ecuadorian parents, Ricky C was born in Chicago and raised in Miami, Florida. Ricky’s father, Segundo Cisneros, was a Latin singer who released multiple albums and performed worldwide. His father introduced Ricky to music at a young age. At 17, Ricky C decided to pursue music professionally and he began his career under the tutelage of his father.
Ricky C | Early life
Mann was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City. He was born two days before fellow songwriter Gerry Goffin.
Barry Mann | Early life
Roback was born on April 4, 1958 and raised in Los Angeles, California, a son of nurse Rosemary (née Hunter) and physician George Roback. He graduated from Palisades High School, before studying art at Carleton College and the University of California in Berkeley. He and his brother Stephen Roback, a bass guitarist, formed the band Unconscious alongside Susanna Hoffs, who would go on to become the lead singer and guitarist of The Bangles.
David Roback | Early life
Born in Rubio, Venezuela
Roberto Giusti | Early Life
Ringenberg was born in Kewanee, Illinois and grew up in nearby Sheffield, Illinois, where his parents owned a family hog farm that bordered the Rock Island Railroad line. He started playing in rock, alternative rock, and country-bands while in school at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Jason Ringenberg | Early life and education
David Rubinson (born August 7, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American recording engineer and music producer, who was particularly involved in music production from the 1960s to the 1980s. He produced such diverse acts as Moby Grape, Herbie Hancock, the Pointer Sisters, Santana, and Taj Mahal. Rubinson also founded The Automatt Recording Studios and was the music producer for the film "Apocalypse Now".
David Rubinson | Introduction
Djavan Santos was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He studied guitar and electronic music at Alexander Hamilton High School.
D33J | Early life
Shortly thereafter, Rubin submitted a video to "Modern Drummer Magazine" of him doing a solo during an F.o.N. performance, which was picked by the magazine as the winning entry in its "Best Undiscovered Drummer Under the Age of 18" contest. The winner of the 18-and-over category came from Argentina, and both drummers were invited to perform at the 2000 Modern Drummer Festival, by which time Rubin had turned 12. He has taken lessons from Blink-182's drummer Travis Barker and The Hooters' drummer David Uosikkinen.
Ilan Rubin | Early life
He was born on July 10, 1958, in Dallas, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Dayton and received training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
Rick Womick | Early life
Rob Fusari was born and raised in Livingston, New Jersey. A child prodigy, Fusari won numerous piano competitions at Radio City Music Hall at 8 years old.
Rob Fusari | Early life
Rosenthal's early influences included Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Ken Hensley, Chick Corea, Kit Watkins, and Tomita. He attended Berklee College of Music, where he played in a band with Steve Vai called Morning Thunder, and graduated in 1981.
David Rosenthal (musician) | Early life (1961–1980)
William S. Rubin was born in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest of three children. His father was a textile merchant who owned several factories. Rubin was educated in public schools in Brooklyn before the family moved to Riverdale, New York, where he attended the Fieldston School. There he took an art course with Victor D’Amico, who was also director of education at the Museum of Modern Art. At the time, Rubin was not interested in pursuing a career in the visual arts, for he aspired to become an orchestra conductor. Upon graduation from high school, he went to Columbia University, ostensibly to study music.
William Rubin | Background and education
Elucid was born Chaz Hall in Jamaica, Queens. His mother was a singer and his father was a bassist. He grew up in Deer Park, New York. Subsequently, he moved to East New York, Brooklyn.
Elucid | Early life
Rabhan was born in Savannah, Georgia and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He studied journalism at New York University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree. Shortly after graduation, Rabhan earned a post at Rolling Stone.
Jeff Rabhan | Early life
Rick Springfield was born Richard Lewis Springthorpe on 23 August 1949 in South Wentworthville, an outer western suburb of Sydney. He is the son of Eileen Louise (Evennett) and Norman James Springthorpe, an Australian Army career officer. His maternal grandparents were English. When he was young, he lived at the army camp with his family in Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia. At fourteen, he saw the Beatles perform at Festival Hall, Melbourne.
Rick Springfield | Early life
Rubin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Esther (Katz), a homemaker, and Robert Rubin, a truck driver who later became a Teamsters' union official. Rubin attended Cincinnati's Walnut Hills High School, co-editing the school newspaper, "The Chatterbox" and graduating in 1956. While in high school Rubin began to write for "The Cincinnati Post", compiling sports scores from high school games. He attended Oberlin College, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and later went on to graduate from the University of Cincinnati, receiving a degree in history. Rubin attended the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 but dropped out to focus on social activism.
Jerry Rubin | Early life and education
Rosenberg was born and raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland, to M.J. Rosenberg, a Capitol Hill staffer father and public school teacher mother, and he attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. He describes his upbringing as "a very Jewish, upper middle class, regular suburban life." He was introduced to hip hop by his older brother, and has also cited popular songs such as "Parents Just Don't Understand" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince as early influences. Visiting his grandparents in Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York, US, he was influenced by radio shows hosted by DJ Red Alert and Marley Marl.
Peter Rosenberg | Early life
Lovato was born in Neptune, New Jersey, the son of Rick and Maureen Lovato. He attended Middletown High School South in Middletown, New Jersey, where he started long snapping as a freshman. He also saw time at center and on the defensive line.
Rick Lovato | Early years
Whitacre was born in Reno, Nevada, to Ross and Roxanne Whitacre. He studied piano intermittently as a child and joined a junior high marching band under band leader Jim Burnett. Later Whitacre played synthesizer in a techno-pop band, dreaming of being a rock star. Though he was unable to read music at the time, Whitacre began his full musical training while an undergraduate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, eventually taking a bachelor's degree in Music Composition.
Eric Whitacre | Early life
Dukes was born in Florida on March 8, 1968, living in Queens before moving to Nyack, New York, north of Manhattan. He describes his parents as being "kinda hippies" who regularly played records by artists such as The Doors, Black Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix, which was the music he grew up on.
Rob Dukes | Early life
Ra Un Nefer Amen was born in the Central American country of Panama. Amen attended Panama's Conservatory of Music when he was six years old. He arrived in the United States on May 30, 1960, to continue his formal musical training and graduated from the Brooklyn High School for Boys in Brooklyn, New York in 1961. Upon graduating, Amen continued his formal training at Juilliard Prep (Pre-College Division) and Mannes College of Music.
Ra Un Nefer Amen | Early life
The family then moved to Billings, Montana where his father began a new career in radio. When Rydell was 16, his parents told him to find a job or move out. In response, he did both. His baseball coach was the program director at KGHL, and offered him a job, with one condition: changing his last name to avoid confusion with his father's radio program. It was then the radio personality Rick Rydell was born.
Rick Rydell | Early life
Deniro Farrar was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 18, 1989. He dropped out of school in the 9th grade. He grew up listening to Tupac, Three 6 Mafia, Luther Vandross, Kris Kross, Lauryn Hill, and DMX.
Deniro Farrar | Early life
Fernando Jacob Hubert Hendrika Ricksen was born on 27 July 1976 in Hoensbroek, Limburg, the Netherlands.
Fernando Ricksen | Early life