My name is R'tistic... I got that name through my musical talents. Everything I do is just that, 'artistic'. I compose music for movies, TV, and video-games. I also produce hip-hop, R&B, pop, reggae, kompa....whatever, if its music then I can create it. I am also a songwriter...... I'm talented, young and ready.

-All tracks © 2004, 2005-

R'tistic Bio:

Born on March 23, 1982 in Newark, New Jersey, I became the first American in my Haitian native family. My parents were so excited about their American citizenship back then, that they decided to name me after the american president of that period: Ronald Reagan. They moved to Irvington where they raised me, my two brothers and two sisters.
I started playing the piano and drums by ear at the age of nine. As I improved, I played the piano for the youth choir at church and played the drums during services. My years in high school (Irvington High School), however, began to steer me in another direction, away from music. That was around the time I started messing with knuckle heads. But I got myself together by the time I graduated and got accepted to Monmouth University, where I studied science. By then, I had completely put music on the back burner.
On May 2003, I graduated from college with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. But during my senior year, a friend had put me back in the music scene. I began making beats on an old keyboard my father sent to me from his church and rapidly got better at it, as though a hidden bomb had suddenly exploded in me. And I guess it went off at the right time because balancing anything while studying chemistry was nearly impossible for me. I got a job right out of college at a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company named Schering-Plough as an analytical chemist. Yes, I am a real chemist, working in a real laboratory five days a week. However, I had already realized that what I was missing in my life was my true love and true talent: MUSIC. Now, I use my chemist money to fund projects (equipment, studio time, travel, etc.). I am also more than just a beat-maker. I am a producer and has worked with several up and coming rappers, R&B singers and poets in the tri-state area.
I love all types of music, especially from the 60’s and 70’s. I mess around with rock, pop, country and whatever sounds good. I define myself as a true music fan with an uncanny ear for music. I have never charged for my sounds or time, because I feel that God has a greater reward for me in the end. I know I will be successful in the music industry. The question is, when will I make it?