Artist Biography

Born Jason Joseph Ricci, February 3rd 1974 in Portland Maine. A four-year-old Jason was randomly digging near a bird fountain in the front yard of his parent’s large home in Falmouth Maine. While Digging he unearthed a small, black, wooden, gargoyle that oddly showed no signs of deterioration or damage from its years in the cold Maine ground. The black solid Idol stood about eight inches high and around 3 inches wide and terrified Ricci’s father. All who came in contact with this strange wooden archetype were perplexed by its story and feared its demonic features and evil grin. The young Jason Ricci however kept it near him always, he felt it’s forces as part of his own and it stood on his nightstand whenever he slept. The Gargoyle’s presence only comforted the boy until its mysterious disappearance a year or so after it’s excavation. One night many years later when Jason was 21, he was in between bands and living back with his mother in Maine again. He wandered down the stairs at Three AM to find his mother still awake. They began to converse and some how the subject of the dark idol came up again for the first time since its loss some sixteen years before. Ricci asked his mother if she knew what had happened to the gargoyle? His mother sighed and waited a moment, she told the young man she didn’t know what actually had happened to the statue but that she thought Ricci’s father had some how gotten rid of it. She then paused again, taking a deep breath and she looked her son in the eyes and said: “You know Jason Joseph Ricci, the strange thing about that gargoyle is: when I was a little girl growing up in Connecticut I dug up a wooden gargoyle just like that one in my yard too.

Ricci was tormented with a turbulent childhood riddled with his parent’s divorce,
alcoholism, institutions, a controversial and very public national court case involving Joe Ricci, Jason’s father and numerous occasions of a youthful Ricci running away for home for weeks sometimes moths at a time. The young man at the age of 17 was already a budding performer having worked the club circuit in Portland with various punk bands and had been playing harmonica and singing with a growing interest in the blues. Before he was 18 he quit school, got a GED and ran away for good heading west to Idaho for a short-lived colleges study of wild life management.

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• JasonRicci.com