Born and raised in Washington State, Bertoldi's learned all he knows about music from listening to other songwriters and musicians. His major influences are Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Tom Waits. His songs and/or lyrics have been recognized in major songwriting competitions, such as the John Lennon Song Contest, American Songwriter Magazine's Lyric. His song "Something Good" took First Place in the
FOLK/AMERICANA category of the 2019 Great American Song Contest: http://www.greatamericansong.com/hall-of-fame2019.php
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Bertoldi Originals Receive High Marks!
International Song Competition - 2023 - Semi-Finalist in two categories: (1) “Show Me a Sign,” in Songwriter and (2 "I'll Carry On" in Americana | Great American Song Contest – 2023 – TOP 5 Award in Singer-Songwriter for “Show Me a Sign. International Song Competition | Great American Song Contest - 2020 - Finalist in Singer-Songwriter, for his song "Guiding Lights" | Indie-International Song Contest - Winter 2019 - 2nd Place in Folk / Acoustic + 3rd and 4th Place for Americana/Country | Great American Song Contest - 2019 1st Place Folk/Americana - Hall of Fame - for his song "Something Good"
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R.X. Bertoldi is an award-winning singer songwriter from Seattle, Washington. His songs and lyrics have been recognized in international and national songwriting competitions, including the John Lennon Song Contest, American Songwriter Magazine's Lyric Contest, Song of the Year, Mountain Stage New Music Contest. • R.X.'s original "Black Coffee in the Mornin'" and his cover of the Faces' "Ooh La La" were played regularly on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio's Coffeehouse program for a few years, until a major change to their programming direction.
• 2019 - R.X.'s unreleased original, "Something Good" Wins 3rd Place in the Indie International Song Contest.
• 2018 His song "Every Christmas Tree" placed as one 20 Top winners (out of 4,000 entries)in RadioAirplay's Holiday Song Contest.
• 2017 Songwriter Universe Winner - One of Top 5 Songs of the Month.
• 2017 R.X.'s "Every Christmas Tree" - Finalist in the Great American Song Contest!
• 2016 R.X.'s "Solid Ground" receives Honorable Mention in singer songwriter category of the Indie International Songwriting Contest!
• 2015 R.X. Bertoldi & Son's first studio EP Taking Back the Time was on the Americana Music Radio Chart for over eight months running!
His recent album of covers "Strong Roots & Readings" was cut with acclaimed Seattle producer Johnny Sangster. His guidance, solid playing and crew of excellent Seattle musicians he assembled helped make the covers collection Bertoldi's most radio friendly output to date.