Robbie Rivera

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Robbie Rivera
Origin	Puerto Rico
Genres	Electro House Dance Funk Tribal Progressive House
Years active	1996 – Present
Labels	Juicy Records
Website	http://www.robbierivera.com

Riberto Louis Rivera, better known as Robbie Rivera, is a prolific house music producer and DJ born in Puerto Rico. He has an extensive catalog of original productions and remixes to his credit, ranging from Tribal to Progressive House, as well as incorporating Garage and Latin elements.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early years (1986 - 1999) 1.2 Rise to fame (2000 - present) 2 Discography 2.1 Albums 2.2 EPs 2.3 Singles 2.3.1 Chart positions 3 Aliases 4 Co-productions 5 References 6 External links 7 See also

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early years (1986 - 1999)

Rivera grew up in Puerto Rico, he was a fan of Freestyle^{[disambiguation needed]} and Eurobeat when he bought two turntables to teach himself Djing techniques. Rivera performed at weddings and school party gigs, eventually leading to nightclubs at age of 16. After high school graduation Rivera attended the Art Institute at Fort Lauderdale to study music production and was introduced to many different digital audio tools including the popular Protools program. While in college he released his first record, "Sorulla", a track influenced by Latin house music. The track became popular in New York and Miami and his career was underway.^[1]

[edit] Rise to fame (2000 - present)

In 2000, Rivera's track "Bang" became a huge hit, making it to number one of the United Kingdom dance chart. The track also made it on to several dance compilation albums and was used frequently during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The song became popular enough that it gave Rivera some face time on Top of the Pops and MTV. Rivera started his own label, Juicy Records, and recorded mix CDs for Max Music, Filtered, and others. Rivera produced his first album Do You Want More? for Ultra Records and Independence in France. The first single "Which Way You're Going" reached the number one position on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart and was released on the UK label Toolroom, the track was created in early 2003 when Rivera contacted lyricist Ned Bigham, Jean-Jacques Smoothie and Timo Maas; It was the first completed song and lead track which was inspired by Coldplay's hit "Clocks".^[2] In 2003 he also released his track "Girlfriend" which featured vocals by Justine Suissa.^[3] During 2007, Rivera's Juicy Show began weekly airplay on XM Satellite Radio in the United States and Canada. In 2008 he made a collaboration with Armani Exchange by mixing an album called Twilight for the store.^[4]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

The following list contains studio albums produced by Robbie Rivera.^[5]

• 2005 Do You Want More?
• 2008 Star Quality
• 2009 Closer to the Sun

[edit] EPs

This list contains extended plays by Robbie Rivera, his aliases and co-productions.^[6]

1996 Another State of Mind EP Volume 1 1997 Mad Music EP Vol. 1 1997 The Prime Time EP 1998 Step into My Grooves Vol. 1 1999 Crazy Mother EP Vol. 1 1999 Robbie Rivera Tools Vol. 1 1999 The Beat Bandit EP 1999 Crazy Mother EP Vol. 2 1999 Crazy Mother EP Vol. 3 1999 Essential Grooves Part 1

2000 The Secret Agent Adventures Part One 2000 The Secret Agent Adventures Part Two 2001 Heavy Soul Part 1 2001 Robbie Rivera EP Part One 2001 Rough Ride EP 2004 Funktown EP 2005 Miami EP 2005 Miami EP Vol. 2 2005 Robbie Rivera Tools Vol. 2

[edit] Singles

This list contains singles by Robbie Rivera, his aliases and co-productions, it does not contain singles which were remixed; For remixed singles look at Remixes section. ^[7]

1996 These Are the Sounds in the House! 1997 I Wanna Feel It Deeper 1998 Getting Down with the Sax 1998 I Wanna See You Groovin' 1998 Funking & Grooving 1998 Attention 1998 Enough Is Enough 1998 Intense / Feel This 1998 The Kings of Tribal 1998 Key of life 1998 Not Just a Dub 1998 Nothing to Offer 1998 The Ultimate Disco Groove 1998 There's Some Disco Fans in Here Tonight 1999 Bringing It Down 1999 Clap Your Hands 1999 Club Wash 1999 D-Monsta 1999 Listen Up 1999 First the Groove 1999 French Fries from Miami Beach 1999 High Energy 1999 It's a Feeling Now 1999 It's Midnight 1999 Relax 1999 Saxmania 1999 Sunny South 1999 The Frenzy

1999 The Music Makers 1999 The Soul Bandit 1999 Rainforest 1999 1999 The Real Sound 1999 Tough Enough 2000 Bang 2000 Do You Believe / I'm the Music Tonite 2000 Fallin' 2000 I Can't Take It 2000 I'm the Music Tonite 2000 The One 2001 Feel This 2001 Funk-a-Tron 2001 In the Distance 2002 Burning 2002 Hypnotize 2002 Let's Get Together 2002 Sex 2002 Sound Xpress / Congos 2002 Super Drum 2002 The Hum Melody 2002 Trippin 2003 All That I Like 2003 Bringing It Down 2003 Girlfriend 2003 Gonna Let the Music Move You Around 2003 Got to Let You Know 2003 I Want More

2003 Insanity 2003 The Bang 2003 Vertigo 2003 Sound the Horn 2004 Blah Blah Blah 2004 Funk-a-Faction 2004 Liar 2004 Which Way You're Going 2004 Uptown Girls / Do You Want More? 2005 One Eye Shut 2005 Right Here 2006 Bizarre Love Triangle 2006 Escape 2006 Float Away 2006 Superstar 2006 The Dubai Track 2006 Your Mistake 2007 Aye Aye Aye 2007 Bring Back the Underground 2007 Rock It 2007 Move Move 2007 No Nobody 2008 Back to Zero 2008 In Too Deep 2008 Girlfriend 2008

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Title	U.S. dance[8]	UK[9]	FIN[10]
2000	"Bang"	22	13	-
2001	"Feel This 2001"	1	-	-
2002	"Sex"	-	55	-
2003	"The Hum Melody"	1	-	-
2004	"Burning"	1	-	-
	"Which Way You're Going"	1	-	-
2007	"Float Away"	-	-	3

[edit] Aliases

This list contains the names of the aliases used by Robbie Rivera. ^[11]

"68 Beats" "Anima" "D-Monsta" "Eighties Phunk Masters" "The Freak" "Funk Bandit" "The Funksters" "Invasion" "Juice Man" "Juicy Tools" "Keylime"

"The Kings of Tribal" "Loopman" "The Masters of The Drums" "Metalhead" "Rhythm Bangers" "The Rivera Project" "Tribal Crew" "Westwood Project" "Wicked Phunker"

[edit] Co-productions

This list contains the names of the co-productions with Robbie Rivera and other artists. ^[12]

"CRRS" (with Chicco Secci) "The Italian Connection" (with Maurizio Ruggiero) "Kolaborators" (with Billy Paul Williams)

"The Music Makers" (with Chicco Secci) "Robbie Rivera And AJ Mora Project" (with AJ Mora) "Rockik" (with Chicco Secci) "Soul Logic" (with Chicco Secci)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• Interview with Robbie Rivera on TwistedHouse.com
• Bio and World DJ ranking of Robbie Rivera

[edit] See also

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart