D.O.B : July 5th 1978

Hero's : Elvis Presley & Shakin' Stevens

Hobbies : Watching Liverpool Football Club (COME ON YOU REDS)

Favoutite Food : Pizza

Favourite Drink : Cherry Coke

Favourite Film : Braveheart

Favourite Actor : Mel Gibson

Ricky knew from an early age that he wanted to be a singer. He began singing to his parents who encouraged and supported him from the age of six, yet he didn't hit the stage until he was fifteen where he took part in various school concerts.

After leaving school at the age of sixteen, Ricky answered an advert in the local paper looking for talented youngsters between the age of eight and eighteen to join  the Starlite roadshow , it was then that Ricky got his first audition. For the audition Ricky performed the Elvis Presley song, "Treat me nice" , that very night he was included in the show. Whilst being a member of the roadshow Ricky made his first TV appearance on Michael Barrymore’s "My Kind of People" at the age of seventeen.

Ricky also attended the Starlite School of Variety Entertainment (ran by the same people who ran the roadshow) on and off for two years during which time he completed a six month summer season (April 1996) for West Star holiday's as part of the entertainments team at Mullion Holiday Park in Cornwall.  Ricky performed in various stage shows and also hosted various talent competitions for the guests on the park.

Ricky returned home in October 1996 to once again attend college until he was nineteen, it was then after leaving college in 1997, he decided to form a band of his own. Ricky advertised in all the local newspapers and within a matter of weeks the band had their first gig. They were a four-piece rockabilly band called "Breathless" consisting of drums, bass, guitar and Ricky on lead vocals.

Breathless performed all the hits from the 1950's and 1960's by artistes such as Elvis, Chuck Berry and also songs by the likes of the Stray Cats and Shakin' Stevens who were very successful in the 1980's. The band also liked to write and perform some of their own material. During the two years Breathless were together they gained a great reputation for themselves performing on local television and radio. They also performed alongside Billy J Kramer and the Dakota's at Pontins Holiday Park in Southport.

During 1998, Ricky stumbled across an advert in the entertainment magazine "Stage" advertising for someone to play the part of a young Cliff Richard. Ricky travelled to London for an audition, it was there that Ricky first met Shadows tribute band "The Rapiers". Ricky got the job and the show "Me and My Shadows"  toured the UK from January 1999 to August 1999. Ricky and the Rapiers had a great time recreating an early Cliff Richard and the Shadows concert performing songs from 1958 to 1963. This was Rickys first experience of performing on the Theatre stage in various Theatres around the UK.

After the "Me and my Shadows production ended, Ricky then went on to pursue his solo career, performing his tribute to Elvis, Shakin' Stevens and all the Rock'n'Roll greats in various workingmen’s clubs in and around the North West of England.

Whilst remaining friends with The Rapiers, Ricky received a phone call from Colin Pryce Jones (Lead Guitarist of The Rapiers) telling him all about an up and coming production called "Cliff The Musical"

Ricky again went for an audition at the Bournemouth BIC in August of 2002 for the part of young Cliff (Once again) After a few weeks the producers told Ricky that they would like him to take up the role. The show toured the UK from January to March 2003 including four days in Rickys hometown at The Liverpool Empire, and then in April of the same year the show spent two months at the Prince of Wales Theatre in the West End of London. Whilst in London Ricky and the other Cliffs (Four in total, all playing different era's in Cliffs Career) appeared on GM:TV to talk about the Musical and performed a brief version of Livin' Doll. One night whilst getting ready to go on stage, Ricky received the news that his idol "Shakin Stevens" was in the audience...Ricky was in shock, his hero of twenty plus years was about to watch him perform. Ricky is quite often asked the question "Do you get nervous"? "I don't usually get nervous, but on this occasion I was terrified" During the interval, Ricky and Shaky met backstage for the 2nd time, the first time was in April 1999 at one of Shaky's concerts!

After a successful spell in "Cliff the Musical", Ricky once again returned to performing as a solo artiste and again in March 2004, Ricky took on the role of the young Cliff, in a new production called "Born to Rock 'n' Roll the Cliff Richard Musical" The script had been completely re-written and instead of their being four Cliff's, Ricky was one of only two, the other being Jimmy Jemain who also appeared with Ricky in "Cliff the Musical" The show went on a mini tour of the UK and also a Two week tour of Denmark. Ricky describes this as the best time of his life.

Ricky returned to his solo career and in 2007, began working on his Elvis Presley tribute portraying the great man as he was in the 1950's early 1960's.

Ricky performed a handfull of gig's as Elvis and in June of the same year decided to enter "The Ultimate Elvis Contest" which was a world wide search for the best Elvis tribute held by Elvis Presley Enterprises.

Ricky entered into the European heat of the contest and was up against 64 other tributes, some of whom had been performing as Elvis for many years. To Ricky's surprise he came away with the title of Best 1950's Elvis in Europe and was delighted to say the least.

It was after his performace in the contest that Ricky was approached by BBC Television inviting him along to take part in their show "The Worlds Greatest Elvis" presented by Vernon Kay. The show pitted Ricky up against 30 of the best Elvis tributes from around the world.  The title of Worlds Greatest Elvis eventually went to American, Shawn Klush. Ricky was thrilled to have been given the chance to appear on the show and say's the best thing about it was all the friends he made whilst filming.

2008 see's Ricky continuing with his Rock'n'Roll stage act, whilst also officially becoming an ETA (Elvis tribute Artist).  In January he entered into the "Walk a golden mile in my shoes" contest which is recognised as Europe's #1 Elvis contest, held annually in Blackpool, England. Like the year before, Ricky was again successful, coming away as the Gospel contest winner after his performance of "You'll never walk alone"

Ricky then went on to a mini tour of the uk with two fellow ETA's, Paul Molloy and Steve Storm, with a theatre show called "Elvis...How it was" The show was recieved well but they never did more than a handfull of shows

2009 started with a bang, with Ricky once again entering into the "Walk a golden mile in my shoes" contest. He was fortunate enough to win 3rd place, ranking him as one of the best ETA's in Europe.

Along with 3 other ETA's, Mike Nova, Paul Molloy and Chris Connor, Ricky begins work on a new Elvis tribute show called ELVIS...THROUGH THE DECADES. The show pays tribute to each era in the career of Elvis Presley, 50's (Aron) Movies (Nova) 68 Comeback (Molloy) and the Vegas years (Connor) 

And the story continues.............................