Rico’s extensive DJing career began as a weekend hobby with a local sound system aptly named ‘Ballistic.Aptly named because his natural charm and flair for entertainment shot him to fame with his very first residency, club DJ and promoter at the infamous Bojangles nightspot.
This first foray into the club scene in the north of England ran so successfully for over 2 years that popular demand and reputation meant the inevitable relocation to London.
During this time Rico favoured the DJing as a more expressive release but became more and more involved and responsible for promoting an endless succession of incredibly successful events to the extent that there were sometimes as many as three separate events on one night.
Rico amassed a lot of experience and made many contacts whilst perfecting his talents, not least his talent for creativity, which eventually took him to Prague. But it doesn’t end there, Rico’s high profile cooperation with ‘Elite Look’ and the MTV Network Europe, led to the creation of the ‘MTV’, ‘Elle’ and ‘Radost Fx club’ party extravaganza, In addition to the creative input for countless parties and events, Rico settled into an incredibly successful residency at the ‘Radost Fx club’ club and built his proprietary ‘Soul Train’ into the number 1 R’n’B party in the Czech Republic.
With such an illustrious career behind him, Rico is still leading from the front with his vinyl in one hand and a microphone in the other. www.mvpmusic.co.uk.
Rico has Mc’ed for Judge Jules, Paul Van Dyke, Angelo Mike and dj’ed along side the likes of karl brown, MJ Cole and Elisabeth Troy, lisa Unique, Zena, Formally of Miss Teeq, Daz-I-Que Bugz in the atic, T-Money café de Paris, Femi Fem, lonyo (Bon garson) Dj Mace (del la Soul) Africa Islam, Manny Norte, Matt White, Dj Mase (De le soul), Dj LBR and Big Ali, and Trevor Nelson, Dj krush, Fun lovink Criminials, Shortee blitz but to name a few
Rico also plays often in Belfast, and has also Residency in Bratislava, and will be starting his soul train party in London in the second half of 2006. There is no stopping Rico from spreading his global urban flava Will your city be next???? Pragues NO1. urband DJ
I was born in St Louis Mo., U.S.A. and spent the second half of my ‘young life’ in the city of Chicago during the 80’s and 90’s. In Chicago, I witnessed the birth of House music and I became a regular partier at legendary house clubs like the Music Box and the original Wharehouse during the early 80’s. Soon after, Hip Hop and Rap music began to dominate the urban music seen in the U.S.A. and the focus for my love of music changed to the raw beats and slick ryhmes of early hip hop stars like Run D Mc, Grandmaster Flash, Kutis Blow, The Sugarhill Gang and others. I was and always will be one of the biggest fans of Hip Hop culture and Rap music.
I, however, find that Rap music (Black moon, Krs one , Wu tang etc,) is a little hard for Europeans to dance to. And, in Europe the dance floor is very important. If you as a dj can’t make the girls dance and scream then your parties will be full of young b-boys drinkin, smokin and nodding their heads. But we know that is not a party!
So, the style of music that I choose to play is R&B/HipHop like Amerie, Destiny’s Child, J-Lo, Usher and R. Kelly with a little Rap for that street flavor. Nowadays, I am playing a lot of Rap because Rap artist like Snoop, Dre, Lil John, 50 Cent and Nelly are making Rap songs for the dance floor . I am however, no stranger to house music. As I mentioned before I am an old school Chicago House head from back in the day! I am a lover of all styles of music from Breakbeat toGhetto tech, House to Disco. So, it is quite common for me to swing the dance floor from R&B to House and back again. I am not a Turtabalist ,although I do cut and scratch a bit, I am a DJ and I play music to make the young girls scream! And that’s a party Kid!
I also sing and in the year 2000 I hit it big on the Czech Republic’s club scene with a deep house song I wrote and sang with a local dj called ‘Goodbye Illusions’. The song was popular on the Czech club charts and was remixed by the legendary deep house producer Charles Webster and others. I have perfomed this song often over the years in clubs and at parties. In addition, I have written songs for and peformed on the albums of well-known Czech pop stars.
I have played all over western Europe and in places such as Sweden, Egypt, the Ukraine, Belerus, Algeria, Romania and the Slovak republic and have been djing in Prague for 8 years where I have had many monthly and weekly residencies at clubs and bars around the city. The most successful of all of my residencies has been the Soultrain R&B Parties at club Radost Fx, which we have been doing , without fail, for more than 8 years now. This is the best R& B party in The Czech Republic and our dj’s are the best R&B dj’s from Prague, France, London and as far as the U.S.A.
I have had the pleasure of djing with people like of Afika Islam, Mj Cole, Darryl Pandy, Femi Fem of the Young Diciples, Artful Dodgers, Dj Maceo of De La Soul, ?uest Love of the Roots, Wesley Snipes and many others well-known names and faces. Every week on Saturday night we blend R&B, Rap, HipHop,Bhangra and Ragga to create an atmosphere that is hard to forget!
I play all styles of music. My specialties are R&B, Breakbeat & Funky House . I am sure my presence on your party or in your club will be an added attraction that will put money in your pockets and give something special to your people.
Born in Mali (West Africa) there is a big probability for you to became a musician, in the worst case, you will be a big lover of music.
That is why Dj12Play could stand the power of music.
Everything started at the student hostel, during celebration, it wasnt easy to find somebody to play for 20 different nationalities, but Dj12Play had always the courage to propose himself and stand it well
That became a big impuls for him to start a Dj career, which started in Klub 11 at Strahov (student hostel in Prag), truth BarClub (legendary reggae club in Prag at the beginning of the 90's), Tam Tam, Roxy, Radost,etc.
Dj12Play styl is a combination of R'n'B, Hip Hop, reggae, Raggamuffin, Dancehall and African beat, to make you move.
That is a reason, he is one of the pioneer of the styl call in Prag as "black music", playing on Soultrain from the very beginning and he is one of the best R'n'B dj avaible in Prag.
První Soultrain porádaný Ricardo Carterem aka Ricem se konal 5.5.1998 v klubu Radost FX. Byla to první pravidelná rnb noc v Praze, která se konala ka--dé úterý a mohli jste na ní slýchávat ctyri residentní djs a jednoho mc. Soultrain si tak pomalu získával své príznivce a své místo na pra--ské klubové scéne, aby se z nej posléze stala jedna z nejzásadnej--ích klubových nocí u nás.
Po trech letech se Soultrain presouvá z úterý na ctvrtek. Koná se stále pravidelne ka--dý týden a dostává se mu nad--ených recenzí v casopisech jako jsou Xmag, Reflex, reportá--e se objevují i v TV Prima a Ocku.
Na Soultrainu se postupne objevují jména jako Femi Fem (Rotation), Seigi (Bugs In The Attic), Karl Brown, Matt White (Polydor Music), DJ Mace (De La Soul), T-Money (MVP), Lonyo (Bon Garson), Africa Islam, MJ Cole, Daz – I-Kue (Bugs In The Attic), Lisa Unique, Manny Norte, Shortee Blitz, Steve Sutherland a mnoho dal--ích umelcu jako Zena, Elizabeth Troy, The Renegadesm Fater Noah, Victoria aj.
Soultrain pokracuje a urcuje trend rnb music v Ceské Republice i v dal--ích letech a v ríjnu 2003 se stává pravidelnou sobotní nocí klubu Radost FX, kde se s ním v této podobe mu--ete setkávat dodnes. Historie tedy pokracuje a Soultrain si stále udr--uje standart, který si vybudoval behem 8 let své existence na pra--ské rnb, hip hopové a urban scéne.
IF IT MOVES FUNK IT!
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