Richie Rome
Richie Rome ( * in Philadelphia ) is an American music producer, arranger and orchestra conductor from the seventies. His real name is Richard V. Di Cicco.
Life and work
In the 1960s he began his career by composing music arrangements. One of his first works was a medley of Green Apples and Something that he arranged for the O'Jays.
In collaboration with and as a musical arranger for Jacques Morali, he, in 1975, the disco group The Ritchie Family together, for he is the namesake was the same and produced her albums Brazil ( 1975), Arabian Nights (1976) and Life Is Music (1977 ) with.
Characterizing his musical style were lush orchestrations, Stackable overarching multidimensional brass and string operations to the sensuality of the composition to emphasize. His other projects have included Jimmy Ruffin Fallin ' in Love with You ( 1977), The Sweet Inspirations Black Sunday (1977 ), The Chi- Lites My First Mistake (1977 ), Flower's Midnight Dancing Now and Our Never-Ending Love (1979 ) and in collaboration with Phil Hurtt, Stanley Turrentine Disco Dancing ( 1978) and Phil Hurtt Giving it Back (1978 ) .. in some of his pieces such as African Suite he himself plays the keyboard.