Roy Ramos, singer-songwriter-guitarist, and native New Yorker has been performing in his home state for two decades. With his acoustic guitar and soulful voice he plays originals and cover tunes with a heartfelt simplicity that endears him to audiences where ever he performs. The joy Roy derives from his craft shines through in every note.
Success as a working musician in the big city takes more than just talent. Roy has the perfect combination of diversity and muscianship. His repertoire includes: pop, rock, blues, reggae and calypso. He performs solo and with his band Island Sol.
As a child Roy's world was filled with the sounds of his father's Latin Jazz and Salsa band. Roy's love affair with music began at the age of thirteen when a music teacher gave him his first guitar.
Roy attended Edward R. Murrow high school for the performing arts in Brooklyn, composing, recording, and performing original music with Hank Goldsmith (of Newspaper Taxis) and prodigically talented drummer and engineer, Alan Friedman. While in college at The University at New Paltz, he teamed up with long-time friend, Dave Meyer, and formed a duo known as The Too Late for Long Hair Boys. For five years they traveled throughout the upstate New York region, entertaining audiences in coffee houses, bars, restaurants, etc. The Too Late for Long Hair Boys opened for Marshall Crenshaw's Imagine Show, a concert dedicated to John Lennon, Peter Tork of the Monkees, and the John Hall Band (formerly Orleans: Dance With Me and Still The One)
In 1987 Roy relocated to Long Island, New York and struck out on his own, performing in a variety of venues. Initially he worked as a solo act, and later in a duo, East Side Buddies, with Jimmy Mazz.
During the summer season Roy played with the band Cobble Hill Row, named after the neighborhood in Brooklyn where he grew up. C.H.R. was tremendously popular in the summer resort area of Long Island, known as the Hamptons.
Today, Roy devotes his days serenading and bringing joy to residents of nursing homes and senior centers. In the evenings, you can catch him at various clubs and restaurants in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. During the Summer months Roy is busy in the resort areas of the tri-state region performing with his calypso & reggae band, Island Sol.
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