He began playing the guitar at the age of 12
Since 1983.
Jon Bon Jovi owns the Phillidelphia Soul team and Richie Sambora owns a part of the team, as it was said in an interview not too long ago.
Formed in 1983, the original band members were Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, David Bryan, and Alec John Such. Such left the band in 1994. *I believe Tico Torres was also an original member. He has been their drummer for as long as I can remember??
Richie Sambora is currently endorsed by ESP/LTD guitars. They have a signature Richie Sambora LTD model that was designed by Richie and his guitar tech. However he doesn't play the factory models, he uses the models that his tech built for him. He has previously been endorsed by Martin, making him the Richie Sambora acoustic, both a 122 and a 6 string model. he also had an endorsement from Taylor guitars, the Taylor RSSM, a beautiful all Koa acoustic. Richie is often found using the custom double neck that Taylor made for him on Wanted; dead or alive. He was endorsed by Gibson for a brief period of time, during the bounce tour, but that soon ended without a signature model. He was sing a lot of Les Pauls, and a 58 flying V, made in the custom shop by Gibson. The story goes Richie wanted them to make a Richie Sambora L5, and said it couldn't be done. Gibson were making an L5 model for a jazz player, name unknown and he soon discovered that they wanted to make his model a more rock guitar, as to sell to that nieche. Before that it was for a long while that fender were making the RIchie saambora strat, which ahd a couple of incanations, with Floyd rose locking trems, mid-boosts, large star inlays on the fret-board. the secondary model of it was less glitz, but a spanking axe, none the less. He uses various vintage fender's and Gibson's. He has often remarked that his favourite guitar he owns is a vintage Gibson Les Paul 1959 Standard. He has 2 of them. They are his favoutires for the guitar's tone and that they are from his birth year. (They are also worth around half a million dollars). His first endorsement was with Kramer guitars. They made the Richie Smabora model which was a Super-strat style guitar, with a Floyd ROse, 3 humbuckers, with phasing switches and coil splits. As you can see, Richie can play pretty much anything, because he is Richie Sambora. He has often said that his session guitars are vintage, but he has been known to take in his custom one off guitars.
After a dispute with group members over money, he left the group and is now a hairstylist in south central New Jersey. This is not true!! Richie Rosato was a professional stylest long before he joined "The Duprees". Richie was the lead singer of The Duprees for over 25years. He decided to leave the group, now led by Tony Testa due to creative differences and where the group was going musically. Richie has been performing as a soloist and is now performing around the world with the NJ based showband The Infernos. To keep up to date on Richie visit www.richiedupree.com
1998
Since 2007
2006-Present (:
Since 2007
Since April 1995.
Since she was 14 yrs old. She's been performing professionally since she was 15 yrs old.
Since 2010, when they were on the X Factor.