Roberto "Robbie" Rivera (born 1973) is a prolific house music

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

 producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 and DJ

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 born in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

. He has an extensive catalog of original productions and remix

Remix

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es 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 Rivera placing #95.

Early years (1986 - 1999)

Rivera grew up in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

, he was a fan of Freestyle

Freestyle music

Freestyle or Latin freestyle, sometimes referred to as Latin hip hop, is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. Mostly popular during the mid 80s to the early 90s...

 and Eurobeat

Eurobeat

Eurobeat is a form of italo-disco/hi-NRG music that developed in the late 1980s.In the United States, Eurobeat was sometimes marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits....

 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 of Fort Lauderdale

The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale

The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale is a private, coeducational applied-arts college located in southeast urban Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Founded in 1968 by the late Mark K. Wheeler, it is the second Art Institute of a current 50 to be established in North America...

 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

New York

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 and Miami and his career was underway.

Rise to fame (2000 - present)

In 2000, Rivera's track "Bang" became a huge hit, making it to number one of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 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

Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

 and MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

. 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

Timo Maas

Timo Maas is an electronic music DJ/producer and remixer.-Career:Maas bought his first set of turntables at the age of 17, and played his very first DJ set in 1982 at a party in his friend's home...

; It was the first completed song and lead track which was inspired by Coldplay

Coldplay

Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. After they formed Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Will Champion joined as a...

's hit "Clocks

Clocks (song)

"Clocks" is a song by English alternative rock band Coldplay. It was written by all members of the band for their second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head. Built around a piano riff, the song features cryptic lyrics of contrast and urgency themes. Several remixes of the track exist and its riff...

". In 2003 he also released his track "Girlfriend" which featured vocals by Justine Suissa

Justine Suissa

Justine Suissa is an English singer-songwriter, best known for her work with the trance group OceanLab, which includes her and Above & Beyond. She has also collaborated with some of the most popular DJs in the world, including Armin van Buuren, Markus Schulz and Robbie Rivera...

. During 2007, Rivera's Juicy Show began weekly airplay on XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...

 (now SIRIUS XM RADIO) in the United States and Canada. Today, Rivera's Juicy radio show can be heard on radio stations around the world, including (but not limited to): Radio FG,Contact FM and Fun Radio (France); Dero FM (Argentina); Vibe FM (Romania); Novoe Radio FM (Belarus); 105FM and various FM frequencies(Italy); Loca FM (Spain); Turkish Side FM (Cyprus); Risfe FM (Hungary); Radiovolum Digital (Norway); various FM frequencies (Brazil); Dance FM (Morocco).

In 2008 he made a collaboration with Armani Exchange by mixing an album called Twilight for the store.

Rivera's branded Juicy-themed DJ shows have a devoted following of club goers that number in the thousands at each show; the most well known of these parties is Juicy Beach, occurring at the oceanfront Nikki Beach Club venue in South Beach, Miami, every year during WMC (Winter Music Conference).

Rivera appears as the featured producer on the track "In The Morning" on Wynter Gordon

Wynter Gordon

Diana "Wynter" Gordon is an American pop/dance singer-songwriter. She began as a writer for other artists, later signing with Atlantic Records where she began working on an album while continuing to write songs for other acts and providing vocals on songs...

's debut album With The Music I Die.

Albums

The following list contains studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

s produced by Robbie Rivera.

• 2005 Do You Want More?
• 2008 Star Quality
• 2009 Closer To the Sun
• 2011 Dance Or Die Series 1

EPs

This list contains extended play

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

s by Robbie Rivera, his aliases and co-productions.

• 1996 Another State of Mind EP Volume 1
• 1997 Mad Music EP Vol. 1
• 1997 The Prime Time EP
• 1998 Step into My Grooves Vol. 1
• 1999 Crazy Mother EP Vol. 1
• 1999 Robbie Rivera Tools Vol. 1
• 1999 The Beat Bandit EP
• 1999 Crazy Mother EP Vol. 2
• 1999 Crazy Mother EP Vol. 3
• 1999 Essential Grooves Part 1

• 2000 The Secret Agent Adventures Part One
• 2000 The Secret Agent Adventures Part Two
• 2001 Heavy Soul Part 1
• 2001 Robbie Rivera EP Part One
• 2001 Rough Ride EP
• 2004 Funktown EP
• 2005 Miami EP
• 2005 Miami EP Vol. 2
• 2005 Robbie Rivera Tools Vol. 2

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.

• 1996 These Are the Sounds in the House!
• 1997 I Wanna Feel It Deeper
• 1998 Getting Down with the Sax
• 1998 I Wanna See You Groovin'
• 1998 Funking & Grooving
• 1998 Attention
• 1998 Enough Is Enough
• 1998 Intense / Feel This
• 1998 The Kings of Tribal
• 1998 Key of life
• 1998 Not Just a Dub
• 1998 Nothing to Offer
• 1998 The Ultimate Disco Groove
• 1998 There's Some Disco Fans in Here Tonight
• 1999 Bringing It Down
• 1999 Clap Your Hands
• 1999 Club Wash
• 1999 D-Monsta
• 1999 Listen Up
• 1999 First the Groove
• 1999 French Fries from Miami Beach
• 1999 High Energy
• 1999 It's a Feeling Now
• 1999 It's Midnight
• 1999 Relax
• 1999 Saxmania
• 1999 Sunny South
• 1999 The Frenzy

• 1999 The Music Makers
• 1999 The Soul Bandit
• 1999 Rainforest 1999
• 1999 The Real Sound
• 1999 Tough Enough
• 2000 Bang
• 2000 Do You Believe / I'm the Music Tonite
• 2000 Fallin'
• 2000 I Can't Take It
• 2000 I'm the Music Tonite
• 2000 The One
• 2001 Feel This
• 2001 Funk-a-Tron
• 2001 In the Distance
• 2002 Burning
• 2002 Hypnotize
• 2002 Let's Get Together
• 2002 Sex
• 2002 Sound Xpress / Congos
• 2002 Super Drum
• 2002 The Hum Melody
• 2002 Trippin
• 2003 All That I Like
• 2003 Bringing It Down
• 2003 Girlfriend
• 2003 Gonna Let the Music Move You Around
• 2003 Got to Let You Know
• 2003 I Want More

• 2003 Insanity
• 2003 The Bang
• 2003 Vertigo
• 2003 Sound the Horn
• 2004 Blah Blah Blah
• 2004 Funk-a-Faction
• 2004 Liar
• 2004 Which Way You're Going
• 2004 Uptown Girls / Do You Want More?
• 2005 One Eye Shut
• 2005 Right Here
• 2006 Bizarre Love Triangle
• 2006 Escape
• 2006 Float Away
• 2006 Superstar
• 2006 The Dubai Track
• 2006 Your Mistake
• 2007 Aye Aye Aye
• 2007 Bring Back the Underground
• 2007 Rock It
• 2007 Move Move
• 2007 No Nobody
• 2008 Back to Zero
• 2008 In Too Deep
• 2008 Girlfriend 2008
• 2009 Closer To The Sun
• 2010 Let Me Sip My Drink feat. Fast Eddie
• 2010 Rock The Disco
• 2010 We Live For The Music
• 2010 Oh Baby feat. Dero & Juan Magan
• 2010 Keep On Going
• 2011 The Sound Of The Times ft Ana Criado
• 2011 Ding Dong ft Sue Cho

Chart positions

Year	Title	U.S. dance	UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	FIN Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
2000	"Bang"	22	13	-
2001	"Feel This 2001"	1	-	-
2002	"Sex"	-	55	-
2003	"The Hum Melody"	1	-	-
2004	"Burning"	1	-	-
	"Which Way You're Going"	1	-	-
2007	"Float Away"	-	-	3

Aliases

This list contains the names of the aliases used by Robbie Rivera.

• "68 Beats"
• "Anima"
• "D-Monsta"
• "Eighties Phunk Masters"
• "The Freak"
• "Funk Bandit"
• "The Funksters"
• "Invasion"
• "Juice Man"
• "Juicy Tools"
• "Keylime"

• "The Kings of Tribal"
• "Loopman"
• "The Masters of The Drums"
• "Metalhead"
• "Rhythm Bangers"
• "The Rivera Project"
• "Tribal Crew"
• "Westwood Project"
• "Wicked Phunker"
• "DJ Spacecake"
• "Electro Hippy"

Co-productions

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

• "CRRS" (with Chicco Secci)
• "The Italian Connection" (with Maurizio Ruggiero)
• "Kolaborators" (with Billy Paul Williams)

• "The Music Makers" (with Chicco Secci)
• "Robbie Rivera And AJ Mora Project" (with AJ Mora)
• "Rockik" (with Chicco Secci)
• "Soul Logic" (with Chicco Secci)

External links

• Official Site
• Official Site
• DJ Times Magazine March 2010 cover story

See also

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