Singer/songwriter. Born in Jamaica raised in hackney and settled in Birmingham. 

Ricardo Williams was always surrounded by musical influences during his childhood. “I started singing at age 7,” recalls Ricardo. “Since then, I wanted to expand my musical involvement, so I started singing in talent shows, school plays, church and around friends and family.” The next step for Ricardo was to create and share his own music, so at the age of 12, he began writing his own lyrics to various instrumentals.

Influenced by artists such as Boyz II Men, Donnie Hathaway, H-Town, Dru Hill, Jodeci, Tank and Dave Hollister Ricardo already had a set of strong models from which he was able to create his own blueprint. “I think a lot of people try to recreate the songs of the past. I try to recreate the feelings of what I loved about those songs. I try to make my own melodies that bring out those feelings in people. When I write I want you to feel whatever emotion I am going through. I want it to feel personal. I want you to feel like you are in my life.”

Songwriter and composer
I’ve been around music from an early age; my godfather was a musician and I remember spending endless hours at his house where there was always some sort of musical instrument lying around. So my hands started out on this journey of becoming familiar with different sorts of instruments. 
It didn’t take long before I was hooked. One of those old used acoustic guitars at my godfather’s place found what would become a long lasting relationship with my hands.
Back then as a young child, my parents would take us to church, where there was also this environment of music, instruments, along with hands clapping and singing.  It was then when I really began to be pulled into this amazing forum of music.
I seemed to quickly adapt to my new arena and absorbed all I could while it was available to me.
So, there I was, launched into this music world and I loved it. As a teenager I was very involved in many of our school productions, playing guitar alongside our school brass band.  Those were really good days!  I didn’t read music back then and still don’t - I play by ear.  I started to develop a range of other musical instruments and added bass guitar, piano and drums to the list.
Between then and now I’ve been involved with so many different projects, recordings, musicians and singers, in and out of the UK.  It was also during this time that I began to explore and develop the composing and the writing side of things.  Even though there was much growth and achievement during that period with all the different collaborations, I was still left feeling unfulfilled.
Anyway, here we are, present time.
I really feel like it’s all just starting to begin, the real journey, the purpose!
A few years ago I started asking the question, “What is it all for?” “What is it all about?” 
Here I was with this gift of music, never having had music tuition and I wanted to know ‘What?’ ‘Why?’ and ‘Who?’
Some months after those words were released out of my mouth, other things started to be challenged and more questions, ‘What is it all about?’ This word, Purpose, came up  again. 
Then something quite amazing happened:  I got my answers! Can I just pause and say at this point, I really believe and have proved it for myself, if you have any or many questions about your life and want real clear answers, and if you ask God for those answers, He will tell you.  He’s the purpose holder.
You are probably asking what has all this got to do with music and these song samples on my soundcloud? Well, I now know and understand that if you don’t know what something is meant for, you will misuse it.
So the songwriting now has a purpose, and I know why and what to do with it all. So instead of focusing on a career, my career is to write and steward it well.
These songs are the first samples of many that I know God has downloaded into my hands to deliver to you.  ‘Download’ is what the first album will be called, that’s how these songs started coming to me, literally, I would be woken up with lyrics being dropped into my mind with melodies. 
I write what I’m given to write and I trust it. I trust God wholeheartedly.
I hope you are blessed by these short samples of this first album, the first of many.  It’s a rough demo mix but enough for you to hear, enjoy and be blessed. 
My heart is that these songs will bring hope and healing to many.



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