Ricky Ferranti

Riccardo Ferranti was born in Piacenza. He started playing keyboards and organ and then he moved to guitar. He took his first lessons from Claudio Bongiorni and Silvio Piccioni and then he joined the CPM where he graduated with Donato Begotti, Pietro La Pietra and Bebo Ferra. He studied advanced harmony with Tommaso Lama and piano with Alessandro Bianchi. He attended the Jeff Warren class for horn arrangement at the Modern Music Accademy where he studied vocals as well with Emiliana Cerri.
In 1994 he won "Emerganza Chitarre" and "Jimi Hendrix Tribute" in 1995. He released several didactic VHSs and DVDs with Playgamemusic and Carish. He also joined Franco Mussida (PFM) in a didactic course for Fabbri Editore.
In the year 2001 he produced the album "Feel the blues" with a trio called Psycho Train and then in 2002 he joined the band Animali Rari whose single "Già colpevoli" is part of the soundtrack for the italian movie "Va dove ti porta il cuore". With this band he recorded the albums "Stagioni"and "Sottosopra", followed by the live album "Anima live" recorded at the Fillmore in Cortmaggiore (Italy).
In his career he played with Fiordaliso, Smaila, Faletti, Grignani and Paolo Meneguzzi, following this last one in several TV programs as well. In 2010 his deep love for blues music brought him to give life to Ricky Ferranti & the Rusty Miles, a rock blues project based on covers and original songs. This project evolved into the album "Rusty Miles".
He plays in the Acoustic Blues Trio “ARE JAY” (They released “Blue Gloom CD”-2014) and collaborates with “Spirit Gospel Choir”.
In 2015 released “Metodo Per Chitarra Base” (Epub and Book).
In May 2016 released "This Flame" , “This Flame” is a musical journey through Acoustic Folk and Country music .
All tracks are played in a “ONE MAN BAND” style , playing Kiks and cymbals,shakers , guitar(or banjo/mandolin) and Harp and vocals at the same time.
Only "solos" and Vocals Backing tracks are overdubbed.
“Each of us has a Flame,a Ray of Sunshine,a hidden GOD inside and we must try to find all this and do it ,always, in the best way, with the understanding that sometimes , we will find this , just as we will let it go”