Rick Bauer is a popular performer as well as a singer/songwriter and record producer based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Seething with a truly original vocal flair and towering the 2-meter mark, Rick Bauer is a genuine presence. Physically and vocally distinctive, he has been entertaining audiences in Europe and America, in tiny coffee houses and giant festivals alike, performing over 250 shows per year since the mid 1990’s.

Performing on stages since the age of six, Rick Bauer was raised in a musical household by a father who was a professional bassist and a mother that encouraged his early expressions of interest in music. Joining his father onstage as a child, Rick regularly sang with the band and began sitting in for his dad on bass and vocals by the age of eleven. By junior high, Rick had his own gigging band, played trumpet and baritone in concert band, bass in jazz band and started developing skills in songwriting. Throughout high school, Rick Bauer continued to grow as a musician by joining county and collegiate honor bands, performing classical recitals, conducting the school orchestra, playing bass in the jazz band, singing rock music and performing pop ballads on vocal and piano at school assemblies.

While in college on a full academic scholarship to Nova Southeastern University, Rick co-wrote and performed the soundtrack to a nationally aired television commercial for the Quetzal Foundation environmentalist group entitled "Environmental Revolution" and recorded professionally with the bands Mourning Son and Crave. After graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Legal Studies, Rick took to the road, touring Florida non-stop as a lead singer and bass player with the popular cover bands the Bleeding and Vendetta from 1997 until 1999. Growing tired of the road life, Rick entered graduate school at Florida International University in the Masters of Religious Studies program and started to write/record and perform as an acoustic solo artist in 1999. After hitting the studio with Dashboard Confessional producer James L. Wisner, Rick Bauer was a featured solo vocalist and semi-finalist on the national television program, Ed McMahon's "the Next Big Star" in 2000. That same year, Rick recorded with and co-produced Florida band, Freax, at Miami's "Hit Factory", (where Eric Clapton originally recorded "Layla") and was an award recipient in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest for the song "Pave Me Ground".

After being approached by an overseas talent agent, Rick began performing in the Scandinavian troubadour circuit and joined the independent European label Gritt Records in 2001. Over the next few years, Rick completed his Master’s Degree and performed throughout Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United Kingdom during summers and taught courses in Religious Studies back at Florida International University while performing solo gigs and doing a brief stint with local super group Strange Daze. While still teaching at F.I.U. and working as a soloist, Rick did an album with the original Metal group Stillborn Panic on route to forming the longstanding Rick Bauer Band. Joining forces with drummer Rich Pistocchi and reuniting with his father, Bassist, Rick Bauer; Rick formed a power trio that garnished local and international acclaim as one of the most eclectic and capable three pieces anywhere. Since 2003, the group has successfully launched three European tours and consistently maintained a busy schedule by performing well over 200 shows per year in venues as diverse as the musical capabilities of the group.

Since 2004, Rick Bauer has been the proprietor of Production Company and Independent Record Label 'Roads to Rome Productions' where he helps with administrating, producing, writing, engineering and packaging work for other South Florida musicians. Writing, performing and producing original material from this studio, Rick Bauer crafted both the “Daybreak” and “Mr the Invisible” albums in almost their entirety. Their melancholic and introspective sound takes root in the inspired singer/songwriter tradition and finds shape in a modern production approach that blends the organic and synthetic.

In other capacities, Rick was hired as Keyboardist/Backup vocalist for Sony hopeful Paris Dozier (son of legendary Motown writer Lamont Dozier), by London's N6 management in 2005. He was a Guest Artist for international DJ Markus Schulz and licensed his original track “Let it Go” to Netherlands record label Armada Music in 2007. That same year, Rick Bauer formed the Modern Rock group Science & Fiction with guitarist and producer Steve Walbroehl (E.M.I. recording artist with Stellar Revival) and the album “Contradictions” followed in 2008.

In early 2011, Rick Bauer reformed Roads to Rome Productions as a Florida non-profit corporation that seeks to encourage and promote inter-faith spiritual dialogue and social responsibility through the production and dissemination of informational and inspirational audio and video materials. At the crux of its social agenda, Roads to Rome Productions believes that the world can be dramatically changed for the better by simply reminding people, that at any given moment, there are multiple opportunities to exercise acts of common courtesy, to approach the natural environment in a conscientious manner and to spare a little time to give of one’s self. The company’s mission is to help South Florida songwriters that address social responsibility and inter-faith dialogue in their music to get it professionally recorded and to produce PSAs on social issues that offer practical applications for improving the quality of local standards of living.

Adopting the name of the primary protagonist from his second solo album, Rick Bauer has assumed the artist name Mr the Invisible and released the digital single “Holes” on the heels of the full-length album entitled “the Jordan” set for release at the end of 2011.

Rick Bauer is an Ordained Minister with the American Fellowship Church, a B.M.I. songwriter and a Voting Member of the Recording Academy. He resides in Plantation, Florida with his wife Katrina and their first child is expected in March of 2012.
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