Salsa, Salsa and Swing is what Indio brings to the stage and airwaves. We are not talking just about a singing voice and dance moves but hot and spicy tropical looks. This has cultivated in making him a triple threat in Latin music or any music genre for that matter. He can sing, dance and at 6 feet 3 inches a looker a Latin Stallion, and a lady’s man to boot. He has been nick named by some close friends as the Elvis de la Salsa. Indio is giving Salsa the boost it needs to rekindle with its youth. His style is injecting new blood, new style and vision for the genre.
His interpretation of Salsa is not our parents Salsa a youthful and urban style of Salsa. His singing and music is incorporated with a lust and passion for tempo and lyrics and other music styles.
Ricardo Ramos a/k/a Indio was born in New Jersey on July 24th 1979. Rik grew up in the hard knock streets of Patterson. Patterson New Jersey was home to native born legendry Salsa Singer Frankie Ruiz, who is someone that Indio admired growing up. Indio’s musical style started within home where his father showed him the Spanish folklore style of music using the Quattro guitar.
The holidays traditionally in Spanish families are full of singing and dancing and the tradition was no exception to his home. Growing with a home full of sisters a total of seven, he learned to appreciate the passion that men have for Latino women. This sense of passion is vocally portrayed in his signing style and musical lyrics.
Life has not all been music with Indio. He is a man’s man, and vocal advocate for the fight and cure against cancer. This is something very close to him as he has lost one sister to the dreadful disease and another one currently fighting for her life. “We all know that life Is a struggle” he says, but one of his true champions in his life is his sister Carmen who has survived and struggle with a cancerous brain tumor after nine brain operations.
Check out Rik’s new song…
Demasiado Fuerte
