# Claudio Marciello on Losing Ricardo and Their Musical Partnership

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117420766388220204
- Source account: [@juleiva](https://x.com/juleiva)
- Source language: Spanish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:01
- Published: 2026-11-03
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership) What happened to you with Ricardo's loss?

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=3) And I felt like a part of me had gone. Really?

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=6) These days, sometimes I write music and think, “I need this guy to tell me exactly what this song needs to say.”

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=12) And I say that with all the emotion in the world. That, no, I won't find again.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=17) My motto is: I keep doing my thing, you know, I sing.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=21) I still haven't decided to bring in a singer.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=22) It's damn hard to find a singer, it's damn hard to find someone who writes. So, uh, I am Claudio Del Tono Marciello.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=31) I carry on, it's my thing, it's my life.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=34) But yeah, sometimes I say, “Man, damn, this song, it's like it's missing that lyricist.” Having a singer is different from working the way I did with Ricardo as the singer, because Ri—Ricardo was a storyteller and also a singer.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=51) Well, he had both. He was a songwriter, he was a singer, he performed what he sang very well, too.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=57) That’s what I mean. The performance part was that he was better at seeing the guy as a singer. And I never thought of him as a singer, I thought of him as a vocalist.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=66) That’s why the melody references were on the CD. But then you had the other one, which didn’t have melodies.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=73) This is so you can tell where the chorus, solo, and sung part go.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=76) I knew the guy would arrange that his own way, or maybe stick to it because he liked it. So, it’s different when you have a guy who you know that guy has a singer’s skills, has, let’s say, some training, right? We’re untrained, we were untrained.

[1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=92) As for me playing, I’m full of bad habits when I play.

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=95) Bad habits, Uh, vices, tricks, repetitions.

[1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=99) And, but the harmonic minor scale, I don't know, man, to me the scale sounds like this: It sounds Spanish to me, you know?

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=106) No, E minor. I don't know, man. No, no, I don't have that kind of training.

[1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wgtvugzaNyhb/en/claudio-marciello-on-losing-ricardo-and-their-musical-partnership?t=111) So, he was also a rude guy, because he'd say, “Look, I'm going to sing, and I don't give a damn.” You get me?