Dick Rosmini was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village learning guitar and performing in clubs.
He appeared as a sideman with Bob Gibson at Chicago's Gate of Horn; with Art Podell & Paul Potash at New York's Cafe Wha?
; as soloist and singer at Los Angeles' Ash Grove; with Barbara Dane in a concert tour with Bob Newhart; and in association with Pernell Roberts in Bonanza.
[5] Rosmini continued his career in music as a sideman on numerous folk albums including those by Bob Gibson, Eric Weissberg, Dave Van Ronk, Ananda Shankar, Hoyt Axton and others before leaving music to pursue a career in photography.
[6] He subsequently taught recording for over a decade at the University of Southern California and had a hand in the evolution of motion picture sound into its present day form.