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Rik Rok
12+ albums
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about
Rick Rok was born Rickardo George Ducent in London, England on June 17, 1972. His parents migrated from Jamaica to England in the mid-60s in search of greater economic opportunities but never lost touch with their roots. Jamaican music played a great role in Rik Rok’s childhood. “When I was growing up it was pretty much Jamaican people who came over,” he recalls. “My father was a big Reggae fan, especially of (singers) Gregory Isaacs, John Holt and Dennis Brown. He had a big record collection and on Sunday’s he would play music all day at home.” Rik Rok was 11 years old when he returned to Jamaica with his family. While attending Manchester High School in Mandeville, Jamaica, he discovered his singing talent and soon realized he had a flair for songwriting too. “One day I was listening to Babyface’s Tender Lover album and I remember thinking, I could probably be a songwriter,” Rik Rok says. “So I wrote a song, put it down, came back to it and tried it again. Then I started writing more and more songs. I wasn’t really good at it first; some of them were really corny, really stupid. But it was just a hobby and I never thought anything would come from it because it seemed like a completely unreachable dream being in the music business.” After completing high school, Rik Rok enrolled in Jamaica’s University of the West Indies but never abandoned his musical aspirations, entering several school talent shows and receiving very enthusiastic responses. In 1995 he embarked on his fi
