Ross played guitar and sang in many Rochester bands in the 60’s and 70’s including Six Machine, Victor Rush, Sweet Dreams, and Lis’n. Working as a recording engineer at PCI Studios in the 80’s, the heyday of big-league television recording in Rochester, Ross had the privilege of working alongside such talents as Jeff Tyzik, Steve Gadd, Don Potter, Ferdinand Smith, Mick Guzauski, Joe English, Joe Romano, Dick Zacari, members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and guitar aficionados Mark Manetta, George Cocchini, and Jeff Gilhart. Ross worked on productions of the HBO boxing and movie themes, music for the Olympics and Wimbledon, as well as industrial films for companies such as Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb.

During his tenure with the City of Rochester Fire Department, Ross received awards for bravery and lifesaving. As board member of the Local 1076 Firefighters Union, Ross produced safety videos for education within the department and was instrumental in facilitating change to implement proper hearing protection for city firefighters. Around the same time, Ross became active in the Corpus Christi Community (now operating as Spiritus Christi,) worked as a volunteer with the homeless men at Dimitri House, and began playing music again.

After retiring from the fire department, Ross and his wife, Kelly, moved to Nashville, Tennessee for the amazing musicianship and songwriting that was alive in Music City. After the birth of their son, Ross became a stay at home dad and continued to work on his songwriting with friends such as veteran writer Stan Webb (writer of I’m From the Country, Love You by Heart, and many country music cuts) Joe Scutella, Beeb Birtles (founding member of the Little River Band,) and Marcus Hummon (writer of Cowboy Take Me Away, Ready to Run, and many more country music hits.)

Radical Heart is Ross’ debut CD, published by Poet People, the proceeds of which will benefit Oasis Center, a youth agency in Nashville, Tennessee. You can find out more or contact Ross by emailing us at info@poetpeople.net.