Born Ricardo Antonio Rodriguez April 8, 1979 in Washington Heights(Dub H) the Dominican Republic of NYC. The conditions in his family wouldnot allow for new life so he was sent to a humble, caring and loving,Dominican family. There he was raised in the strong culture and atmosphereof Latin music. He would begin experimenting with his own sound of R&B andHip-Hop realizing his love for creating sound at age 11. At this tender agehe tried to learn to read music, but was unable to focus on strict rules ofnotes. Mr. Original, Fresh-Air, and The New Formula are only a few namesused to describe “PRO†by some of todays top A & R’s and artists. Therebegan the journey.
Raised with almost no common interest in his family music culture,PRO created his own culture through creativity and developed his ownperspective when viewing the rest of the world. At 14yrs old PRO was doingwork wit Cut It Up Def Records, also the launching pad for platinum producerJim Jonsin. There he worked wit Splack Pack and other freestyle projects.Then signed to an indie record company owned by Freestyle artist Jonny O.Unfortunately his company fell apart and left PRO back at the drawing board.Fortunately it was the very thing that drove him to take matters into hisown hands. Since High School he developed and still maintains a faithfulfollowing delivering fire production to unsigned and signed artist fromFlorida to California.
Under the radar for all this time to the public, now the producer,artist, poet, and actor, is ready to be released. Driven by his owndesperation to express, PRO is becoming one of the most widely used entitiesin the industry and now recognized as an up and coming artist/producer andformer member of Drum Majorz with Gorilla Tek, working with the likes ofUniversal, Universal Latino, Poe Boy, Bad Boy, and Shadyville. Now he isthe "Go To" Producer for many other music industry organizations. He is alsoan official Wu-Tang Affiliate for the label PCE Nation's group TheWatchmen.
The answer is right there, wrapped in plastic, downloaded, viewed,and heard along with his soul. You will find PRO is merely that missing orhidden part of you and now he is ready to finally complete this puzzle.
“What you put in a box will stay in a box....live life outside ofit. Cuz in the end when this life is over, we all get the chance 2 go rightback into oneâ€.