Artist description Rick L. Blues is a creator of ambiance. The secret of his success is a mix of tradition and personal touch, either in the genre's classics or in his songwriting. We can find his love for tradition, from his wardrobe on stage to the respect of his audience and his musical roots.

Music Style Blues

Artist History Born November 9th 1964 in Hawksbury, Ontario Richard Leblanc, A.K.A. Rick L. Blues was raised in Très Saint Rédempteur near Montreal. From his father, a farmer, he learns perseverance and from his mother, a seamstress, the love of a labour well done. With an obvious passion for music, like his seven brothers and sisters, Rick sings, at a very young age, with his sister Suzanne on the porch of the family home. With a natural gift for imitation, he entertains his family and classmates with songs ranging from Elvis to the Beatles. At eight, he learns piano, guitar and flute. At fifteen formed his first band where he sang, played drums and wrote his first songs. Multi-instrumentalists, he tinkers with the saxophone then discovers his fondness for the harmonica. It was at this moment that he also discovers his passion for jazz where he listened to Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, and blues with Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, B.B. King, Big Mama Thornton, Ray Charles and many others. After many years of playing cover material, Rick puts together his first blues band in the 1980's. "B.L. Blues" starts out as a duo but quickly becomes a trio, then a quartet. Wanting to fend for himself, Rick becomes Rick L. Blues, today's solo artist we have grown to know and love. Evolving with Quebec's and the U.S.'s leading blues artists, our friend has also opened for many prestigious names in Pop music like Garou, Nanette Workman, France D'amour, Francine Raymond and many others. Rick performes at large festivals, writes film scores and records on his own label. " Crystal Blues Records "

Group Members Rick L. Blues

Instruments Harmonica, piano, guitar, drum, bass, mandoline.

Albums ELEVEN past ELEVEN

Location Montreal, Quebec - Canada

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