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Riccowiki (talk) 21:33, 10 June 2008 (UTC)Ricciano Lumpkins Grammy Nominated and Award Winning Producer/Engineer/Songwriter “I HAVE A FOND INTEREST IN MUSIC. IT IS MY GIFT-IT IS MY LOVE-IT IS MY LIFE!”

Ricciano “Ricco” Lumpkins was born in Rockford, Illinois approximately 60 miles west of Chicago. A son of a preacher and second oldest of four brothers, Ricco began playing drums in church at the age of twelve. At fourteen he was playing in R&B and funk bands with a pop appeal to them. Additionally, he was enrolled in an arts school called CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts), which concentrated in music, theatre, dance, and art. “I thank my dad for being twice as hard on us about our practices and studies. He instilled protocol early in our lives. It allowed me to have a long lasting career in this crazy music industry!”

After graduating high school, Ricco attended Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois where he played in the Augustana Jazz Lab Band. However, after one year, Ricco quit. “One day while leaving my analytical trigonometry and geometry class, I literally began crying. I think that I was taking a pre-law core course then, and I absolutely could not see myself being a lawyer. I wanted to do music-that’s all!” Ricco began working full time as a welder in order to save money to enroll into an audio engineering school. He also purchased an Akai MPC 60 II and began producing local hip-hop and R&B groups. In 1992 he finally attended Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida where he graduated and obtained his Associates of Recording Arts and Sciences with full honors.

In December of 1993, Ricco moved to Atlanta. There, he crafted his engineering skills. He began his internship at two different studios; Bosstown and DARP Studios-one owned by R&B sensation Bobby Brown and the other by super producer, Dallas Austin. He interned for a mere two weeks before becoming an assistant engineer to mix impresario, Neal H. Pogue. Neal taught him the fundamentals of recording and mix engineering. By 1996, Ricco began receiving requests to engineer for many of the music industry’s hottest artists.

In 1998, while driving to studio, Ricco was analyzing a track that he produced for Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes’ solo album. It was to feature Busta Rhymes. Once he arrived, LA Reid, Dallas Austin, & Shakespeare were standing outside trying to get decide on one more song in order to close TLC’s album. Dallas asked Ricco what he was playing and insisted that Ricco use the song for the TLC’s Fan Mail album. The rest was history. His first production ever placed earned him high accolades of a Grammy. Ricco signed a production and co-publishing deal with Dallas Austin’s company. According to Austin, “Ricco was already engineering, mixing, and producing, at high volume, most of his projects at DARP studios. It only made sense to have him on board as an in house producer.” In the past fifteen years, Ricco has either produced or engineered projects such as TLC, Boyz II Men, Sammie, Blaque, Master P, 3LW, Outkast, Ciara, 112 (P. Diddy), Bobby Brown, George Clinton, Dave Hollister, Jon B. Rodney Jerkins, Lauryn Hill, Dallas Austin, Akon, Ludacris, TI’s-Govenor, Mya, Kelley Price, Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, Monica, Public Enemy, Slick Rick, Cleopatra, Jazze Pha, Darlene McCoy, Goodie M.O.B, Joi, Shawn Desman, Lil Zane, Lloyd, Ashley from Lil Romeo Show, Richard Lugo, Chilli (solo album), Vega, Namie Amuro, Michico, Young G, Curtis Mayfied, Uncle Sam, Billy Lawrence, Faith Evans, Mc Breed, Harlem World (Ma$e), Creflo Dolla’s Canton Jones, KRS one f/ P. Diddy, Dazz Band, SWV, Crystal Waters, Mariah Carey’s Trey Lorenz, Smilez and Southstar, Dj Prostyle’s, Traffic, Viper, and yes, Presidential Nominee-Barack Obama. Besides winning Grammy’s, Ricco’s productions have also been in movies and video games. Ricco’s “Put it on Da Line” made its way onto Chauncey Billups’ NBA Ballers Phenom video game released through Midway Games. He also placed a song in the Kangaroo Jack Movie and soundtrack, On the Line movie starring Lance Bass from NSync, Hot Boys produced and directed by Master P, and Three Strikes movie. Ricco has also released an independent album under his alias aka Da SoundsCan which was released through his independent label, Platinum World ProjeX, LLC (PWPX). His album Conception 2 Life was pre-nominated in eight different categories for the 2007 Grammys. The nominations are as followed: Album of the Year (Category 2) 106, Da SoundsCan: Conception 2 Life Record of the Year (Category 1) 129, Body Sweat Da SoundsCan f/ K-Lu Best New Artist (Category 4) 056, Da SoundsCan Field 7 Best Rap Album (Category 35) 011, Conception 2 Life (Da SoundsCan) Field 27 Best Engineered Album (Category 90) Conception 2 Life 042, (Ricciano "Ricco" Lumpkins) Field 27 Producer of the Year Non-Classical (Category 91) 117, Ricciano Lumpkins Field 7 Best Rap/Sung Collaboration Body Sweat 013, and Da SoundsCan Field 7 Best Rap/Sung Collaboration Dime Piece 014.

Ricco believes in reciprocity-One must give in order to receive. He occasionally sits on various producing, engineering, and songwriting panels for conferences. He has been a guest panelist for the television show, Atlanta In Concert in Atlanta, the Southeast Music Conference in Charlotte, Atlantis Music Conference in Atlanta, and West Side Ministers Conference in Chicago. He has also been a guest lecturer and instructor at various schools (Full Sail University, Music Industry Workshop, and others in the Atlanta area). He teaches different software applications such as Protools, Logic, and Reasons. Ricco appears in the second edition of the Music Powers book written by Cirocco Jones.

Ricco is a voting member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). He is also a member of SESAC, BMI, and the Audio Engineering Society (AES). He has a production, engineering, and three publishing companies. He his currently working on international artists, a new children’s’ album, his second album, writing a book, writing and executive producing a reality show, and coordinating a Midwest talent search, and raising his son. “To Learn, To Teach, To Love, and Recreate with integrity under the guidance of a Creator.” Ricciano J. Lumpkins