Rick Trevino

American singer-songwriter

Rick Trevino

Trevino in 2016.

Background information
Birth name| Ricardo Treviño Jr.
Also known as| Rick Treviño
Born|  (1971-05-16) May 16, 1971 (age 52)
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Genres| Country
Occupation(s)| Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)|

* Vocals
* guitar
* piano

Years active| 1993–present
Labels| Columbia Nashville
Vanguard
Warner Nashville
Formerly of| Los Super Seven
Website| Official website

Musical artist

Ricardo Treviño Jr. (born May 16, 1971), known professionally as Rick Trevino, is an American country music artist. Signed to Columbia Nashville in 1993, Trevino began his career that year with the release of his debut single "Just Enough Rope", the first mainstream country music single to feature separate English and Spanish versions. The song was included on his debut album Dos Mundos; a self-titled album followed a year later. Trevino has charted a total of fourteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and recorded seven studio albums. His highest-charting single, "Running Out of Reasons to Run", reached No. 1 on that chart in 1996.

## Biography[edit]

### Early years[edit]

Ricardo Treviño Jr. was born May 16, 1971, in Austin, Texas. He is the son of Ricardo Treviño Sr., a Tejano musician, and Linda Chavez. His music career began when he started taking piano lessons at the age of five.[1] He plays rhythm guitar as well as keyboards.

Trevino graduated from Westwood High School in Austin, Texas. Although he was offered a baseball scholarship to Memphis State University, Trevino chose instead to study music at Texas A&M University.[2] While a student, he played his brand of country music in local clubs. In December 1991, a representative of the Sony label, Paul Jarosik, was stranded in Austin due to flooding conditions and visited a small club where Trevino regularly played. Although Trevino was not performing that evening, the representative saw several articles on the walls which praised Trevino. Employees of the club gave him a tape of Trevino's music, which the label representative then passed onto music producer Steve Buckingham. Buckingham made a special trip to Austin just to hear Trevino perform and signed him to Sony. Trevino left school to pursue his music career.[1]

### 1993: Dos Mundos[edit]

At the insistence of Columbia Nashville, his first album, Dos Mundos, was an almost entirely Spanish country album. Trevino, who is not a native Spanish speaker and needed lessons before he could record the album, was displeased with the decision. "I didn't like that a bit because I didn't want people to think I was a Tejano artist...Everybody thinks I'm a Tejano singer crossing over to the country format."[1] The album was certified gold (selling over 500,000 copies).[2]

### 1993–1995: Rick Trevino[edit]

Seven months later, in 1994, Sony released his first English album, Rick Trevino.[1] Rick Trevino was certified gold (selling over 500,000 copies) and featured the hits "She Can't Say I Didn't Cry" and "Doctor Time." He released his debut single, "Just Enough Rope" ("Bastante Cordón") on September 7, 1993.[3] It appeared in English on Rick Trevino and in Spanish on Dos Mundos, while a version of the song which combined the two languages was also released to radio. This became the first mainstream country single to be released in both English and Spanish.[2] The album's third single, "She Can't Say I Didn't Cry", became Trevino's first chart-topper, spending one week at the top of the Gavin Report country singles charts.[4]

### 1995–1996: Looking for the Light[edit]

The follow-up English album, Looking for the Light, was released in 1995 and included the top-ten hit "Bobbie Ann Mason." Trevino also recorded a Spanish version of the album, titled Un Rayo de Luz ("A Ray of Light").[2]

In the late 1990s he joined an all-star group of Mexican-American singers, including members of Los Lobos, Freddy Fender, Ruben Ramos, and Flaco Jimenez, to create the supergoup Los Super Seven.[1] The group won a Grammy in 1998 for Best Mexican-American Music Performance for their self-titled debut album. Another two albums followed – Canto in 2001 (also released live on DVD) and Heard It On The X in 2005 (both albums included Raul Malo of The Mavericks among others).

### 1996–1997: Learning as You Go[edit]

Trevino's 1996 album Learning as You Go, produced his first and only Billboard Number One single in "Running Out of Reasons to Run" with "Learning As You Go" reaching #1 on the Radio & Records Chart and #2 on the Billboard Country Chart. The third single, "I Only Get This Way With You" reached #7 on the Billboard Country Chart. As with Looking for the Light, Learning As You Go also featured a separate Spanish-language version, titled Mi Vida Eres Tú ("My Life Is You").

### 1998: Departure from Sony[edit]

Trevino asked to leave his contract with Sony in the hopes of moving in a different musical direction. Sony refused to release him from the contract, and Trevino cut a new album and released the single "Only Lonely Me" on August 18, 1998. Before the album could be released, Sony agreed to release Trevino, and the album was shelved.[5] The same year Trevino appeared on compilation CD Tribute To Tradition (released on Columbia label) with a cover version of "City Lights" (#1 country classic recorded by Ray Price in 1958).

### 1999–2002: Continued touring and Mi Son[edit]

Trevino continued to tour and released a Spanish-language album, Mi Son, that contained only ballads and had little hint of his country music roots. Without a new album or record deal, however, Trevino's touring schedule slowed, and most of his band quit.[1]

During this time, Trevino began collaborating with Raul Malo, former frontman of country band The Mavericks. The two had met while working on the second Los Super Seven album. Their collaborations helped bring Trevino to the attention of producer Paul Worley, who helped Trevino get a contract with Warner Brothers.[1]

### 2002–2004: In My Dreams[edit]

For his next album, In My Dreams, Trevino "wanted to do a country record that had a Latin flavor to it."[1] He wrote or cowrote every song on the album except for the final track, a cover of the Bryan Adams song "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" The title track, "In My Dreams" became a single and remained on the charts for twenty weeks, falling just shy of the Top 40 on the Billboard country charts. Trevino was disappointed with the final ranking, but said the album "opened a lot of doors for me. It made people take me a little more seriously than 'Bobbie Ann Mason.'"[1]

### 2004–present: Single releases and Whole Town Blue[edit]

Trevino's Warner Records single release, Separate Ways, failed to reach the Top 40 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and the planned release of the Whole Town Blue album was cancelled. The album was subsequently released in 2011 on one CD with his previous album on the Warner label as In My Dreams / Whole Town Blue. A Christmas album titled Oh Ven, Emanuel was self-released in 2009 and was still available through his website as of 2016. His collaboration with Los Lobos on "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" was released as a single in 2010.

## Discography[edit]

### Studio albums[edit]

Title  | Album details  | Peak chart positions  | Certifications
(sales thresholds)

|
|
|

US Country
[6] | US
[7] | US Latin
[8]
Dos Mundos[A] |

* Release date: September 14, 1993
* Label: Columbia Records

| —  | —  | 20  |
Rick Trevino[B] |

* Release date: February 22, 1994
* Label: Columbia Records

| 23  | 119  | —  |

* US: Gold

Looking for the Light |

* Release date: February 7, 1995
* Label: Columbia Records

| 17  | 121  | 22  |
Learning as You Go |

* Release date: June 25, 1996
* Label: Columbia Records

| 17  | 117  | —  |
Mi Son[A] |

* Release date: January 23, 2001
* Label: Vanguard Records

| —  | —  | —  |
In My Dreams |

* Release date: September 9, 2003
* Label: Warner Records

| 58  | —  | —  |
Oh Ven, Emanuel |

* Release date: 2009
* Label: Self-released

| —  | —  | —  |
Whole Town Blue |

* Release date: March 7, 2011
* Label: Warner Records

| —  | —  | —  |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

### Compilation albums[edit]

Title  | Album details

|

Best of Rick Trevino |

* Release date: August 5, 1997
* Label: Sony International

Corazón de Rick Trevino[A] |

* Release date: January 12, 1999
* Label: Sony International

Super Hits |

* Release date: September 14, 1999
* Label: Sony Special Products

Mano a Mano[A] |

* Release date: February 20, 2001
* Label: Sony International

Nuestra Tradición[A] |

* Release date: July 24, 2007
* Label: Norte

Notes

* A^ Spanish-language albums.
* B^ Rick Trevino also charted at number 5 on the US Top Heatseekers chart.

### Singles[edit]

Year  | Single  | Peak chart
positions  | Album

|
|
|

US Country
[9] | CAN Country
[10]
1993  | "Un Momento Allá"  | —  | —  | Dos Mundos
"Just Enough Rope" ("Bastante Cordón")  | 44  | 71  | Rick Trevino
1994  | "Honky Tonk Crowd"  | 35  | 29
"She Can't Say I Didn't Cry"  | 3  | 11
"Doctor Time"  | 5  | 3
1995  | "Looking for the Light"  | 43  | 30  | Looking for the Light
"Bobbie Ann Mason"  | 6  | 6
"Save This One for Me"  | 45  | —
1996  | "Learning as You Go"  | 2  | 36  | Learning as You Go
"Running Out of Reasons to Run"  | 1  | 16
1997  | "I Only Get This Way with You"  | 7  | 26
"See Rock City"  | 44  | 54
1998  | "Only Lonely Me"  | 52  | 94  | —
2003  | "In My Dreams"  | 41  | —  | In My Dreams
"Overnight Success"  | —  | —
2007  | "Separate Ways"  | 59  | —  | Whole Town Blue
2010  | "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" (with Los Lobos) | —  | —  | —
"Better in Texas"  | —  | —  | Whole Town Blue
2016  | "Cowboys Like Me"  | —  | —  | —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

### Music videos[edit]

Year  | Video  | Director

|
|

1993  | "Just Enough Rope"  | Greg Aldridge/Marc Ball
1994  | "Honky Tonk Crowd"  | Gerry Wenner
"She Can't Say I Didn't Cry"
"Doctor Time"
1995  | "Looking For the Light"  | Martin Kahan
"Bobbie Ann Mason"
"Save This One for Me"
1996  | "Learning as You Go"  | Jon Small
"Running Out of Reasons to Run"  | Martin Kahan
2003  | "In My Dreams"  | Peter Zavadil
2007  | "Separate Ways"

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Remz, Jeffrey B. (November 2003). "Rick Trevino strives for overnight success". Country Standard Time. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
2. ^ a b c d Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2001). "Rick Trevino". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
3. ^ http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/trevino_rick/613498/album.jhtml[dead link]
4. ^ Hobbs, Bill (January 1995). "Family Tradition: Rick Trevino's Perspective from the Top of the Charts". New Country. 2 (1): 50–52.
5. ^ "Rick Trevino strives for overnight success – November 2003".
6. ^ "Rick Trevino Album & Song Chart History – Country Albums". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2010.
7. ^ "Rick Trevino Album & Song Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2010.
8. ^ "Rick Trevino Album & Song Chart History – Latin Albums". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2010.
9. ^ "Rick Trevino Album & Song Chart History – Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
10. ^ "Results – RPM – Library and Archives Canada – Country Singles". RPM. Retrieved April 11, 2011.

## External links[edit]

* Rick Trevino Official Website
* Rick Trevino Artist Roster

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Studio albums|

* Dos Mundos
* Rick Trevino
* Looking for the Light
* Learning as You Go
* In My Dreams

Notable singles|

* "Honky Tonk Crowd"
* "She Can't Say I Didn't Cry"
* "Doctor Time"
* "Bobbie Ann Mason"
* "Learning as You Go"
* "Running Out of Reasons to Run"
* "I Only Get This Way with You"

Related articles|

* Los Super Seven

Authority control databases

International|

* FAST
* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* United States
* Czech Republic

Artists|

* MusicBrainz

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