Erik Rico is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and DJ.

In 1997, Rico was signed by Columbia Records executive Randy Jackson.

In 2001, he wrote and produced for Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest), Jasmine Guy, Malcolm Jamal Warner, and Tre' (The Pharcyde) on Tupac Shakur's The Rose that Grew from Concrete[1] for Amaru/Interscope Records.

Between 2007 and 2011, Rico toured Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Indonesia[2][3] and the Islamic Society of North America convention as a member of the Hip Hop Ambassador program, an extension of the Remarkable Current Music Collective, sponsored by the United States' State Department's Performance Arts Initiative, a program to present positive examples of African American musicians to the international community.

On August 1, 2013, Rico released Love's Dance Vol.