Ryan's Biography
Birth Name: Ryan Frank Cabrera
Nicknames: Ry, Ryry, Ryancito, Cookies Monster, Dorkus
Date of Birth: July 18th 1982
He was born in: Dallas (Texas)
Likes: Cookies, Clothes and Socks
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Restaurants: Cafe Med and Chucks (fastfood in Dallas)
Favorite Shows: Dumb & Dumber, Good Will Hunting and Dead Poet's Society
Favorite Places: San Francisco, Santa Monica, Chicago, and Seattle
Favorite Song: "World's Apart" - Jars Of Clay
Favorite Animal: Monkey
Others: - Doesn't drink coffee,
- A Ninja Turtles backpack,
- Has Dora The Explorer bed sheets,
- Has 13 tattoos: - One on his back, between his shoulders: the logo of his music band Rubix Groove, it's a sun with the letters "RG" in it.
- Three on his left arm: a circle with in it a cross and wrote around it "love eacher other or perish", the second one is the sentence "carpe diem" which means "seize the day" and the last one is a quote from the play "Romeo and Juliet".
- Seven on his right arm: one is an empty heart, second is a kind of angel, third is a blue bird, 4th The Beattles, 5h is a quote, 6th i don't know yet and the 7th looks like a skull.
- One on his chest: it's the word "Soul".
- And one on his right hand which i don't know what it is yet.
Full Biography:Ryan began to write songs at a very young age. Then in 8th grade, he decided to stop playing football because he wanted to learn how to play the guitar.
Ryan made his first steps into music when he was in high school in his first punk band: Caine.
He just wanted to play the guitar but he didn't have the choice and was thrown as singer then he became the leader of the band.
A short time after the band's creation (two days later), Ryan wanted to change his style of music and to make music similar to Dave Matthews.
Then after that, he left his electric guitar and bought an accoustic one and he created a second band: Rubix Groove.
With the help of his older brother, Marc, RG became one of the most famous bands in Dallas. While they were still in High School, they began to make real concerts, playing multiple shows a week in a lot of clubs.
With all this fame, the band had the opportunity to share the stage with some big artists: Cheap Trick, Third Eye Blind and Ben Harper.
But when Ryan's brother brought him to a studio for his birthday, things totally changed.
In summer 2001, even though he was only 19, Ryan took a break from touring with his band (Rubix Groove) because he wanted to record his own album ("Elm St").
He spent long days and nights working on all the songs that he was going to record.
His hard work was worth it! Hundreds copies of "Elm Street" got sold in Dallas and on some online stores, which is a lot compared to the number of copies that were released.
Because of the success of his album, Ryan decided to really focus on music and to drop out of the university of Texas.
Then he had an audition with Linda Septien, a respected vocal coach from Dallas, she also was a coach of Jessica Simpson. He had an intense trainning during 2 years.
In 2003, Joe Simpson recognized Ryan's talent and immediately signed him to his management company (JT Entertainment) so he became his manager.
A few months later, he finally got the chance to sign a record deal with "Atlantic Records".
The writing process of his second album ("Take It All Away") began.
Ryan chose to co-produce his album with John Rzeznik, member of the band Goo Goo Dolls. The album got released in 2004 and had a huge success!
"Elm Street" beleive me! it's not the easiest album to find!"The Moon Under Water" Just came out on May 13,2008 but it was very easy for people to find, it will probably become hard to find in the future though."Take It All Away" is certified double platinum disc.Some months only after its release and while touring, Ryan started to work on his 3rd album ("You Stand Watching"). An album that he decided to produce by himself.
Almost a year after the release of TIAA so in 2005, YSW is out. The album was really great but there was no real promo from the management and it didn't get the same success as the previous one.
Because of this, the fans decided to promote it by themselves and thanks to them, the album got certified gold!
A 4th album will be released late December 2007 or early 2008 along with, maybe, an overseas tour.
Others
"You Stand Watching" is gold.
In 2005, Ryan had a dating show on MTV called "Score", which was a big hit!
He also released two DVD's called "Live At The Wiltern" and "Behind The Scenes", a calendar, notebooks, folders and even jewels!
His Song:
He wrote the song "I Will Remember You" for the final episode of the show "Will & Grace".
His Movie:
He shot a movie entitled "My Sexiest Year" with Frankie Muniz and Haylie Duff and shot the pilot of a tv show entitled "Grand Stand". No dates have been announced for their releases, we just know they will be sometime in 2007.