Ricardo Bonadio (June 21, 1969) is a producer, composer, musician, music entrepreneur, presenter.
Experienced professional of the Brazilian phonographic market has in its curriculum the discovery of great names of the music and the production of artists of expressive sales as Mamonas Assassinas, Charlie Brown Jr., Tihuana, CPM22, Los Hermanos, Ultraje a Rigor, Planta & Raiz, Luiza Possi, Rouge, Br'oz, IRA !, NX Zero, Fresno, Titãs, Mr. Catra, Biel, Sérgio Reis, Roberta Miranda among others.
He was general director of Virgin Records Brasil from January 1997 to April 2001, being responsible for the areas: Artistic / National Marketing and International Marketing, where he directed the development, in Brazil, of artists such as Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, Britney Spears , Manu Chao, Lenny Kravitz, The Rolling Stones.
He left Virgin with the aim of dedicating himself to record production and managing artists. He created the label Arsenal Music and the company Arsenal Eventos, sold the label to Universal Music and today runs his new label Midas Music and its production and recording studio, Midas Studios in São Paulo, today one of the largest recording studios in Latin America.
(www.midasstudios.com.br)
He participated as a judge of the two editions of the Popstars program (SBT), being the producer of the project and of the albums of the selected bands: “Rouge” (2002) and “Br'oz” (2003), which reached enormous popularity and very expressive sales. , the first album of the group Rouge had sales over 1,000,000 (One million copies) in 2002, the only release in Brazil to reach this mark in that year. Also as a judge and musical artistic director, he participated in the Country Star (BAND) project, whose winner was the artist Nathália who burst with her first single “Você taught me love” written by Rick and Eric Silver.
On TV, he commanded the painting “Look at my band” at Caldeirão do Huck on TV Globo, and created the first reality show inside a recording studio: Fábrica de Estrelas, which aired on Multishow in 2013. The attraction showed the day-to-day of his work as a businessman and producer, backstage at Midas Studios and in parallel, he showed the selection of girls for a new girl band called Girls. Once the girls were chosen, at the end of the program they formed the GIRLS group.
He produced and composed the songs on the soundtrack and directed the shows of Floribella and Rebelde, children's youth soap operas that were, in their musical part, great phenomena of the phonographic market in recent times.
Rick collects the impressive 5 Latin Grammy brand as producer of the albums:
Charlie Brown Jr - We're Here in the Activity / CPM22 - Gray City / Titans - Plastic Bags / NX Zero - Now / Charlie Brown Jr - Shirt 10 Play Ball Even in the Rain.
As a composer, he reached the first place in the collection of copyrights according to ECAD in the second half of 2007 and to this day he is among the top 10 on the list.
In 2016, the year in which he completed a 30-year career, he was invited to be the producer judge of the television project X-Factor, co-produced by Band, TNT and FremantleMedia and released his biography, written in partnership with music journalist Luiz Cesar Pimentel . And produced Vitor Kley's EP.
In 2017, Rick produced the album “Marcianos”, by Kell Smith and the 1st. eponymous album by Cristopher Clark, big winner of reality X - Factor. In addition, he produced the EP “Maravilhosa” da Ravena. It is the first work of the girl band formed by Jackie Oliveira, Julia Rezende and Lais Bianchessi, also ex-participants of X-Factor, who, through Rick, got together and now make up the trio.
In early 2018, Rick Bonadio premiered the program “Música na Band”, in which he shows concerts and artists in a different way. During the program he interviewed several male and female singers to speak in a deeper way about the world of music.
At the end of 2018, two artists released their albums on the market, produced by Rick Bonadio: Vitor Kley, with the CD “Adrenalizou” and De Maria, with the EP of the same name.
And it was with De Maria that Rick Bonadio debuted as clip director of the song Ela, released in March 2019.
Alongside the work of a producer, Rick Bonadio also teaches some online courses (www.midasclass.com.br). At the end of 2017, it launched “Music, Business and Success” and in 2018 it was the turn of the themes “Launch, Marketing and Promotion” and “Dominating Spotify”.
In addition, he holds his monthly On-site Workshop (www.rickbonadio.com.br/workshop), where he gives personalized feedback to participants about his music and Artistic Concept.