Rick Fontaine (solo)

 

Years active: 1996-current

 

Location: Houston & Dallas, TX

 

Personnel: Rick Fontaine (guitar, vocals, keys)

 

Info: 

I was born Richard Felix Fontaine III (no, really!) in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. My formative years were spent as an “Army Brat”, picking up every year or so to move to another town in another state. By age 10, I had lived in four different U.S. states and spent a year in Germany. On my sixteenth birthday, I received my first guitar, a Travis – one of those guitars “guaranteed not to crack”. I took a total of two guitar lessons, cleaning my instructor’s toilets as “payment”. Needless to say, I soon decided to teach myself. My first real foray into the “music business” was with Davenport, a band I started along with my high school friends in Dallas, TX. Davenport ran it’s course after 4 years, however. From 2004 to 2014 I was lead guitarist for Back To Blue, playing 100’s of shows throughout the North Texas area as well as across the country.