Biography

Ricky Chilli Source is standing in a club preparing to play a set while he chats to a fellow DJ. The other DJ asks him “So Chilli...what’s your last record gonna be?” Chilli Source laughs and responds “Only the crowd can tell me that”. Ricky Chilli Source is a DJ first and foremost and what he plays is 100% dictated by what the crowd wants to hear. “I’m a crowd DJ, my sole aim is to make the crowd dance”.

Ricky got his big break back in 1991; when the Soul Kitchen team asked him to play at what was then London’s biggest RnB, Hip Hop, Soul club. Ricky was quickly given a Soul Kitchen residency, making him a number one face on the Soul, R&B and Hip Hop scene. With such a prominent residency, Ricky soon hooked up with the cream of London’s club nights including Confunktion, Ministry of Sound, Iceni,The End, Collosseum and the legendary Fresh&Funky, and finding time to promote his own red hot quarterly parties under the ‘Dancin ‘n’ Prancin’ monicker. At the same time Ricky was infamous for promoting a night in North London called ‘Chilli Source’ which he quickly became synonymous with and thus the name ‘Ricky Chilli Source’ was born.

Ricky Chilli Source, previously head of the Street Team at BMG Records, a job Ricky was hand picked for and where he was consistently at the cutting edge of the urban music scene, promoting some of the hottest US artists on the streets of the UK. Ricky is responsible for masterminding the prolific promotional campaigns for the Busta Rhymes ‘Genesis’, Usher’s ‘8701’ and Alicia Keyes’ ‘Songs In A Minor’ albums as well as providing unrivalled street exposure for TLC, Blu Cantrell and Usher ‘Confessions’ . This role at BMG has also seen Ricky bring over a plethora of US artists to the UK; he has thrown parties for, and performed with, Busta Rhymes 2003 UK tour, Alicia Keys, Angie Stone 2003 London show, Toni Braxton and Clipse.

Residency

Ricky Chilli Source continues to Dj nationwide, with regular appearances at:

Appearances in London to date:

International callings see him playing out in Dublin, Ayia Napa, Falaraki , Ibiza, Majorca, Cancun ( Mexico) and Dubai and, his personal favorites, Japan & Hong Kong. “I first played out in Hong Kong in 1997 and it just blew me away. I just didn’t expect to see Chinese B-Boys, it was such a breath of fresh air. The vibe was good and the crowd gave me the perfect setting for my best set yet”.

Indeed, there are many more good sets to come.... for Chilli the future looks hot.