Ricardo Betancourt originally from Puerto Rico, began taking pictures in London in 1977 while attending London International Film School, and later moved to NYC as a professional photographer. There, from 1980-1997, he combined his passion for Latin music, jazz, and other musical genres with his fascination with light and movement to create unique and powerful album covers for a number of Latin/jazz music greats, in addition to doing more commercially-driven photography for advertising.