Grammy nominated multi platinum "House Music' legend Ralphi Rosario speaks to us about his amazing career including working with Madonna, Cher, Beyoncé, Celine, and numerous other mega stars!

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ralphi Rosario has been an electronic/dance/house music veteran & Icon since the early 80's. His DJ history has earned him legendary status. His involvement in the world renowned 'Hot Mix Five', introduced the world of his legendary status. Rosario is one of the founding fathers & pioneers, introducing house music to the world. His international Hit 'You used to hold me' paved the way for his authentic musical production talents. He later continued to produce his own hits like 'Brinca' & the international hit 'Take Me Up' with long time friend Donna Blakely. His production & remix status has not only earned him a Grammy Nomination for Rihanna's "Only Girl in the world" in 2011, But his remix work & involvement in the dance music/electronic industry comes with great history & impact. His roster of remix work & super talents include; Katy Perry, U2, Rihanna, Beyoncé, Madonna, The Pussycat Dolls, Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Cher, & The Pet Shop Boys; Donna Summer; Mariah Carey & Taio Cruz; just to name a few. He continues to inject high quality dance music, still playing for the masses all over the world. These include the US; Ibiza; London; Brazil & Canada just to name a few. Last full Length LP produced; "Two sides to the story” on Carillo Music. Website https://www.RalphiRosario.com Social Media: https://www.Instagram.com/Ralphi_Rosario Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0c5584rnmlOvkMpJtpBLTh?si=GjlhTag3RVKqTqVakty4CQ Music Matters podcast is hosted by pro musician, producer, and Sports Illustrated photographer Darrell Craig Harris who is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The series has reached over 400,000 streams in 40 countries. MMP receives gear support from Shure Microphones,.Focusrite, and others. Intro and outro voice overs provided by Nigel John Farmer from www.VoiceWrapStudio.com in France. Our thanks to Rodney Hall FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for our intro and outro backing music clip. Contact us at [email protected] Social: www.Instagram.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial www.Facebook.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial https://www.Youtube.com/@musicmatterspodcast https://www.Twitter.com/musicmattersdh Website www.MusicMattersPodcast.com support our mission by joining us on Patreon! https://www.Patreon.com/MusicMattersPodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris, talking about all things music
0:09.6	with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
0:20.3	Mr. Ralphie Rosario, how you doing? Good, Daryl. How's it going? I am good. Like we spoke,
0:27.4	we were just talking about. We spoke a long, long time ago. Yes, yes. We connected when we did a little
0:33.6	session, you did some baseline licks for me on a project that I was actually working
0:38.2	on. So that was pretty cool too. Yeah. We've had we've had a couple of interactions. I think we're
0:42.5	going to do more in the future because we have a lot of stuff happening together possibly down
0:46.9	the road. But yeah, so you have a very interesting history. You have several No. 1 hits,
0:53.3	Grammy nominated. You're part of the
0:55.3	Hot Mix 5 crew back in their early 80s who started really founded house music. You're kind of credited
1:01.1	for that. Since then, you've worked with just a long, long list of folks. And I'm going to
1:07.0	actually look at it because it's so long. It's in excess, CultureBeak, Gloria Stefan, Beyonce, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Calli
1:14.8	Hano, Gano, Georgio Maroder, Michael Boubley.
1:17.0	I mean, it's, Ryan Carey, it just goes on, on, on, on.
1:20.0	Yeah, it was this extensive list of pop artists at the time, probably in the late 90s into the 2000s where remixing, the remixing game was a really
1:29.9	big thing.
1:31.0	Right.
1:31.3	And I was actually lucky to fall into that work area where they actually relied on me to
1:38.1	reinterpret some of their work for the dance floor.
1:40.8	And I was honored.
1:42.1	And I'm glad I have those feathers on my cap about that.
1:45.3	Yeah. I mean, it's great to have the names, but you've worked hard and you've had a long career.
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