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Frederick "Rick" R. Cua was born in [[Syracuse]], [[New York|NY]]], December 3, 1948, to Basilio "Buz" and Rita Rivoli Cua. The eldest of five children, Rick has one brother, Nick, and three sisters: Christy, Luanne, and Joanne. Theirs was a musical family. From the mid-to-late 1940s, Buz Cua, an accomplished guitarist, performed in a military band; with The House Warmers on a weekday radio show on [[WNDR]]; and six nights a week in a band at the Eastwood Sports Center, where he first met his wife. After he married, Buz gave up performing to teach guitar, becoming one of the most respected guitar instructors in the Syracuse area. Rita Cua (d. January 1995; cancer) played piano and sang. Rick remembers, "Our uncles would come and play the mandolin and sing the Italian songs. Our mom used to sing." |
Frederick "Rick" R. Cua <ref>[http://www.assessment.state.tn.us/ Tennessee Property Data Home Page</ref> was born in [[Syracuse]], [[New York|NY]]], December 3, 1948, to Basilio "Buz" and Rita Rivoli Cua. The eldest of five children, Rick has one brother, Nick, and three sisters: Christy, Luanne, and Joanne. Theirs was a musical family. From the mid-to-late 1940s, Buz Cua, an accomplished guitarist, performed in a military band; with The House Warmers on a weekday radio show on [[WNDR]]; and six nights a week in a band at the Eastwood Sports Center, where he first met his wife. After he married, Buz gave up performing to teach guitar, becoming one of the most respected guitar instructors in the Syracuse area. Rita Cua (d. January 1995; cancer) played piano and sang. Rick remembers, "Our uncles would come and play the mandolin and sing the Italian songs. Our mom used to sing." |
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Coming from an Italian family, Cua's first instrument was an accordion. He, however, moved on to try the piano, trumpet, and clarinet, and of course, with his father being an instructor of the instrument, the guitar, which Cua admits he didn't play very well. So he took his father's advice who told him if never wanted to be without work, then he should play bass guitar. That instrument stuck, and so did rock music. |
Coming from an Italian family, Cua's first instrument was an accordion. He, however, moved on to try the piano, trumpet, and clarinet, and of course, with his father being an instructor of the instrument, the guitar, which Cua admits he didn't play very well. So he took his father's advice who told him if never wanted to be without work, then he should play bass guitar. That instrument stuck, and so did rock music. |
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Rick Cua (born December 3, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is an American Dove Award and Grammy Award-winning Christian rock singer, songwriter, bassist, author, and ordained minister. He is a former member of the Southern rock band, The Outlaws, whom he joined in 1980, but left in 1983 to pursue a full-time career in Christian contemporary music, the year after, wherein he gained popularity throughout most the 1980s as a leather-jacket-wearing rocker with an arena rock sound featuring big, shout-along choruses;[1] but upon signing to Reunion in 1988, his works began to take on a softer, more radio-friendly tone that included "sentimental ballads and pop-rock anthems in the style of Michael Bolton."[2] Cua left Reunion in 1992, creating his own label, UCA Records, on which he recorded three studio albums in the 1990s but received little radio play. He's been married to Diana, since 1970, whom the couple have 2 kids, a son-in-law, and a grandson.
Cua took a hiatus from recording in 1998 and went to work as Vice President of the Creative Department at EMI Christian Music Publishing, where he stayed until 2003.[3][4] Following that executive stint, Cua became focused on managing his own two companies: Rick Cua Entertainment manages artists and works in music publishing, film and TV licensing,[5] and All For The King Music offers coaching and inspiration to lay musicians through workshops and free electronic delivery of original worship music.[6] [7]
Celebrating his 25th year in ministry, Cua released his twelfth album, Won't Fade Away, in 2007. It is his first album in ten years.[3]
Discography
Koo-Ah (Recorded at Glaser Recording Studio and Lower Level Studio, Nashville, TN.)
- Released: 1982
- Label: Refuge
- Tracks: Ten
- Singles: You Can Still Rock 'n Roll (#1 Christian Radio Hit)
No Mystery (feat. Ian Bairnson on guitar)
- Released: 1983
- Label: Refuge
- Released: 1985
- Label: Sparrow
- Producer: Dave Perkins
- Singles: "You're My Road"
- Released: 1986
- Label: Sparrow
- Producer: Dave Perkins
- Singles: "Wear Your Colors" and "This Raging Fire"
- Released: 1989
- Label: Reunion
- Producer: Tom Hemby
- Chart position: Reached No. 29 on Billboard's Top Contemporary Christian chart
- Singles: "I'll Be Satisfied" and "Young Boy, Young Girl" (feat. Rebecca Sparks)
- Released: 1991
- Label: Reunion
- Producer: John Elefante, Dino Elefante
- Singles: "Message Of Love" and "Heaven Won't Stop The Rain"
- Released: 1992
- Label: Reunion
- Producer: Bill Cuomo, John Leslie Hug, Robert White Johnson,
- Singles: "What If?"
- Released: 1993
- Label: Reunion
Like A Cool Drink (with the Ah-Koo-Sticks)
- Released: 1997
- Label: UCA
- Released: 2007
- Label: UCA
- Producer: Tony Morra
- Singles: "Won't Fade Away"
External links
- Rick Cua's Official Website
- CrossRhythms Interview: The Singing, Bass Playing Veteran Who 'Won't Fade Away'
- Allmusic.com: Rick Cua
References
- ^ Alfonso, Barry. The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music. New York: Billboard, 2002. p. 148-49.
- ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Vol 2. New York: MUZE, Inc., 1998.
- ^ a b RickCua.com: Rick Cua Bio. Retrieved 02-11-2007.
- ^ Christian Music Archives: Rick Cua
- ^ Bialczak, Mark. "A Family Affair: Buz, Nick and Rick Cua Headed to Sammy's Hall of Fame." The Post-Standard. 31 May 2006: p.E5. Infotrac Custom Newspapers. Thomson Gale. Peter Armacost Library at Eckerd College. 4 Nov. 2007.
- ^ About Cua's All For the King ministry. Retrieved 02-11-2007.
- ^ About Cua's coaching ministry. Retrieved 02-11-2007.