1. Rick Saucedo was born on November 20,1955 and is a musician, songwriter, actor, and Elvis tribute artist.
38 Facts About Rick Saucedo
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At the age of seventeen, Rick Saucedo began performing in nightclubs and bars around Chicago.
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Fontana, and original backup vocalist Millie Kirkham, Rick Saucedo recreated Elvis' career.
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Ever since, Rick Saucedo has been credited as one of the original Elvis tribute artists.
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Rick Saucedo has been performing longer than Elvis himself did and this became Rick's full-time job before people made habits out of impersonating Elvis.
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Decades later, Rick Saucedo is still considered one of the top tributes to Elvis and has never stopped entertaining.
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Rick Saucedo's schedule has him performing at over one hundred places a year.
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Rick Saucedo is a trained player of acoustic guitar, electric guitar, sitar, bass guitar, drums, piano, and several other instruments.
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Rick Saucedo says he will stop at nothing to give everything he has to his tribute, as quoted in the Chicago Tribune:.
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Rick Saucedo signed on to play Elvis Presley in the New York Broadway play Elvis-The Legend Lives.
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Fontana, Millie Kirkham, and more, Rick Saucedo recreated numerous eras of Elvis Presley's musical career.
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The musical ran for five months and Rick Saucedo played six times a week for the entire five months, never missing a show and never using a double.
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Rick Saucedo remained with The Ambassadors full-time for many years until he began performing music different from The King of Rock 'n' Roll.
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Rick Saucedo performed his own original music and music of The Beatles in the 1980s with his band, Redwing.
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When he returned to the Elvis format, Rick Saucedo played with pick-up bands and cycled through other bands.
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Rick Saucedo always performed with a band until 1997 when he played a one-month-long engagement in Aruba at the Alhambra Casino.
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Rick Saucedo had made the switch from band to backing tracks.
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Rick Saucedo uses tracks everywhere he performs except at fests and theatres.
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Since switching to tracks in 1997, Rick Saucedo has cycled among three bands: The Ambassadors, The EAS Band and The Change of Habit Tribute Band.
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Rick Saucedo played with EAS from the late 90s through 2004.
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In 2004, Rick Saucedo reunited with The Ambassadors for a show and has since performed several times with The Ambassadors.
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Rick Saucedo is an original songwriter who has written dozens of songs, and has completed over fifty.
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Rick Saucedo begins by creating the music for a song and then it takes anywhere from fifteen minutes to ten years to come up with the perfect lyrics and mix in order for the song to be of releasable quality.
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Rick Saucedo has written songs of all kinds, including rock, country, love ballads, rock ballads, slasher songs, gospel, holiday, Elvis-style, Beatles-style, Latin-American, psychedelic, and Elvis tributes.
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Some original songs Rick Saucedo has never performed live, while others have become regular songs in his performances, and a few are mistaken as Elvis' own.
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Rick Saucedo wrote his first song, "In My Mind", while in junior high in 1968.
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Rick Saucedo released his first album in 1978 at the age of 23.
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Rick Saucedo played Elvis in the 1989 short film Elvis Stories, written and directed by Ben Stiller and starring John Cusack, Mike Myers, Jeremy Piven, and Andy Dick.
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Rick Saucedo turned down the title role in Elvis, the 1979 television movie starring Kurt Russell, in order to keep performing and playing Las Vegas.
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Rick Saucedo was to play the Elvis character, but the show fell through.
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Rick Saucedo began writing and releasing original material in 1978, which was a common practice for him in the 1990s.
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Rick Saucedo has earned the status of one of the most respected in the Elvis tribute artist business, having won a variety of awards and honors over the years.
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Rick Saucedo has won the 'Best Solo Performer' award multiple times since the 1990s - most recently in 2009, voted in by numerous fans as the best in that category for the year before.
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Rick Saucedo has won 'Best Lounge Act' for 2008 and 2009.
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In 2011, Rick Saucedo was honored twice with two new, prestigious awards.
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Less than a month later, Rick Saucedo was the first inductee into the Elvis Tribute Artist Hall Of Fame, through the inaugural King Of The World event in Memphis, TN.
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In June 2007, live footage of Rick Saucedo had made its way online for the first time as videos of his performances were uploaded to YouTube.
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In March 2009, Rick Saucedo launched his first radio program, entitled Heartbeat Radio.