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star*ledbetter

for lovers and drunkards..dreamers and angels..

About Me

my mom was born in talpa de allende, jalisco, mexico..my dad was born in sonsonate, el salvador..they met and I was born in los angeles, california, moved to el paso, tx sometime in middle school, moved back to los angeles, where there were I began to see the beauty of friendship, love, and burbank, then moved back to el paso, tx to finish high school - grew up, matured, became a somewhat productive academic student, focusing on the beautiful math.. somewhere along the way, I figured out chords and words and shakesperean rhythms, with a little mix of zapata and ernesto guevara, and mathematics... learned the keys, the turntables, rhythms, bass, and some rhyme. started playing songs for people that would listen..those that would remain with me still, the first people I shared music with were: well, that might not be a good idea because I didn't get their permission to list their names but I remember them well.. moved to colorado to pursue mathematical studies, ended up with a masters degree in that subject, with much more to come. became teacher of univeristy students...became a high school teacher later...teaching people to become easy about what they seemingly do not understand, in this case, math.. JUST RECENTLY moved to the bay area - adjusting, loving it, and am currently playing house parties, impromptu shows, bars, and street corners and BART stations like POWELL and 19th ST OAKLAND . not for the money, only for the music so if you need an acoustic musician, hit me up; of course, i will someday go back to el paso..regular in dallas, la, san fran, denver, pueblo, colorado springs, phoenix, and all points in between.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/15/2006
Band Members: ricardo delgado - voice, guitar, programming, turntables, keys, and some cowbellhidden members -
rob "robmachine" grijalva - percussion advice, best percussionist in the universe
Influences: jeff buckley, bob marley, beck, Nirvana, imogen heap, BT, snoop doggy dogg, pedro infante, swisha house, mi papa, jimi hendrix, mi tio jorge, mi tio ernesto, mi abuelo, smashing pumpkins, the doors, ben harper, dave matthews band, common, jill scott, babyface, dengue fever, hole, gals panic, bootsy collins, d'angelo, robert randolph, ozomatli, ben harper, L7, blackstreet, pedro infante, juan gabriel, julieta venegas, manu chao, iron and wine, calexico, the mogwai, soundgarden, robert bradley, pearl jam, dj tiesto, ATB, los hurracanes de tijuana, gypsy kings, alejandro sanz, control machete, led zepplin, chalino sanchez, julio iglesias, nicola dibari, jorge negrete, vivaldi, tupac shakur (except "i get around" I don't like that song..), george clinton, Camp lo, K-os, ben folds five, ben lee, ben kweller, mos def, buena vista social club, juan gabriel, freddy mercury, beastie boys, easy e, babyface, NIN, dave matthews band, tom waits

Rockstars read too! Books:



THE PROPHET [Gibran] (all time fav.) , a people's history of the united states [Zinn], master and margarita [Bulgakov], Keats, Lord Byron, Federico Garcia Lorca, Legendre, Galois, The Fixer [Mallamud], Lord of the Flies [Golding], Lies my Teacher told me [Loewen], the communist manifesto [Marx, engels], ecclesiastes, principles of mathematical analysis [rudin], where the wild things are [sendak], le petit prince [saint-exupery], the giving tree [silverstein], origin of species [darwin], fourier series

Rockstars watch movies too!


The Lost Boys
Garden State
Kids
Point Break
American Beauty
Cast Away
Love Actually
Amores Perros
The Motorcycle Diaries
Fearless
The Game of Death
My Best Friend's Wedding
Great Expectations
The Crow
The Warriors
Meet Joe Black
Everything is Illuminated
Colors
The Last Dragon
SuperFly
Edward Scissorhands
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Paris J'taime
Into the Wild

Sounds Like: if you have any ideas for this, let me know - most didn't know that the flamenco and the alternative could mix..

michael says that is has hints of Ani..
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

ibu :(

ibuflowers, two - picked for their painting.        &nb sp;         &nb sp;   plans to let them drift out t...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:08:00 PST

bon fire - ocean beach - starring into the fire

© 2008 ricardo delgado feed a fire that freezes time which goes on by.and ashes bitter cold and darkness shadows die.an effigy facade that sernades indifferent ears,parades of poetry or finite songs c...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:48:00 PST

cooking :)

hey everybody,just posted a ton of new pictures of the dishes i’ve been cooking up lately - Thanks to those that came to the dinner party last weekend.  I cooked so much and it was all gone...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:09:00 PST

hypotheses the song.

dear friends,i should take this song down.  I wanted to get it out there but my voice is not strong here - Its more of a whisper.  Its really hard to sing things that are so real.  ...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:51:00 PST

shine?

poetry. shaded in sunlight. crippled by a sensitive darkness that causes extinctions. love slips through my fingers - calloused fingers - useless fingers. touching nothing, no one, no where, slowly...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:27:00 PST

???????

break. catharsis undone rhetoric banned from the lips. you have a lisp, like when you kiss your demons goodbye.  they linger, though, Siamese dreamer. me.  golden glass chips eating.. they h...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:20:00 PST

biarlah

lyrics:© ricardo delgado 2008 (but who would copy this anyway.)fascinated by visions that . - . leave me like december. only foolish boys believe that,puzzle pieces  fit together . - . a universe...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:06:00 PST

aku cinta padamu

© ricardo delgado 2008 (but who would copy this anyway.)fascinated by visions that . - . leave me like december. only foolish boys believe that,puzzle pieces  fit together . - . a universe untrue...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:14:00 PST

selling music?

dear all;it seems like there seem to be a lot of pressures from around me to begin to try and sell my music.  Let me tell, being that I am an applied mathematician, I understand the principles of...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:34:00 PST

origins of gluttony

in case syndicates over distortion fall -i hope in legends, bound through darkness crawl.what shade of sadness did you use this time - joy, sorrow, or tenderloin's shine?mobs enjoy an ignorance they d...
Posted by star*ledbetter on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:59:00 PST