Robbie Rivera

Roberto Rivera, better known as Robbie Rivera, is a prolific house music producer and DJ born in Puerto Rico. He has an extensive catalog of original productions and remixes to his credit, ranging from Tribal to Progressive House, as well as incorporating Garage and Latin elements. He and his wife Monica Olabarrieta have homes in Miami and Ibiza. On October 28, 2009, DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll, with Ultra Records artist Rivera placing #95.^[1]

Biography

Early years (1986 - 1999)

Rivera grew up in Puerto Rico, he was a fan of Freestyle^{[disambiguation needed]} and Eurobeat when he bought two turntables to teach himself Djing techniques. Rivera performed at weddings and school party gigs, eventually leading to nightclubs at age of 16. After high school graduation Rivera attended the Art Institute at Fort Lauderdale to study music production and was introduced to many different digital audio tools including the popular Protools program. While in college he released his first record, "El Sorullo", a track influenced by Latin house music. The track became popular in New York and Miami and his career was underway.^[2]

Rise to fame (2000 - present)

In 2000, Rivera's track "Bang" became a huge hit, making it to number one of the United Kingdom dance chart. The track also made it on to several dance compilation albums and was used frequently during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The song became popular enough that it gave Rivera some face time on Top of the Pops and MTV. Rivera started his own label, Juicy Records, and recorded mix CDs for Max Music, Filtered, and others. Rivera produced his first album Do You Want More? for Ultra Records and Independence in France. The first single "Which Way You're Going" reached the number one position on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart and was released on the UK label Toolroom, the track was created in early 2003 when Rivera contacted lyricist Ned Bigham, Jean-Jacques Smoothie and Timo Maas; It was the first completed song and lead track which was inspired by Coldplay's hit "Clocks".^[3] In 2003 he also released his track "Girlfriend" which featured vocals by Justine Suissa.^[4] During 2007, Rivera's Juicy Show began weekly airplay on XM Satellite Radio in the United States and Canada. In 2008 he made a collaboration with Armani Exchange by mixing an album called Twilight for the store.^[5]

Discography

Albums

The following list contains studio albums produced by Robbie Rivera.^[6]

• 2005 Do You Want More?
• 2008 Star Quality
• 2009 Closer to the Sun

EPs

This list contains extended plays by Robbie Rivera, his aliases and co-productions.^[7]

Singles

This list contains singles by Robbie Rivera, his aliases and co-productions, it does not contain singles which were remixed; For remixed singles look at Remixes section. ^[8]

Chart positions

Aliases

This list contains the names of the aliases used by Robbie Rivera. ^[12]

Co-productions

This list contains the names of the co-productions with Robbie Rivera and other artists. ^[13]

References

External links

• Official Site

See also

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart