Rick Beato

Richard "Rick" Beato (born: ) is an American YouTuber, music professional, and educator who has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer and record producer since the early 1980s. Beato is currently residing in Georgia, United States.
== Personal life ==
Beato was born and raised in Rochester, New York. He studied music at Ithaca College, where he later obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in music. He earned a master's degree in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1987.
== Contributions to the music industry ==
Before he started to upload on his YouTube channel in 2015, he has done the folllowing contributions to the music industry:
*He owns Black Dog Sound Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, and began recording bands there in 1995.
*He has also co-founded, with Johnny Diamond, the record label named 10 Star Records.
*He has co-written the song "Carolina" with country band Parmalee in 2013.
*He has produced a song by Muddy Magnolias, called "Broken People".
*He has helped producing an album of Fozzy, Shinedown, and Needtobreathe each.
*He has contributed the soundtrack of the following films: Elizabethtown (2005), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), and Raising Helen (2004). For the first two, he is a producer, and for the last one, he is a writer.
== Trivia ==
*He has written a book titled The Beato Book – A Creative Approach to Improvisation for Guitar and Other Instruments.
*He has lectured several universities in music.
*He has a son named Dylan.
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