After some years of competitive dancing, Rebel then began acting, and performed in musicals like Annie (1991), Oliver!

In Los Angeles, he began training with vocal coaches Eric Vetro, Seth Riggs, and Mara Buyugalova and choreographers like Marguerite Derricks.

[1] Debbie Allen then cast Rebel in the lead role of Pepito's Story, which debuted at the Kennedy Center.

[8] No Authority toured Europe twice during this time and opened for Aaron Carter on the Kids Go Music Festival.

[4] After A&R representatives obtained a copy of No Authority's second album the group was later signed to Madonna's label Maverick Records.

[9] While signed to Maverick Records the group released their first single "What I Wanna Do" produced by Herbie Crichlow from their self-titled album No Authority.

[17] After performing around Southern California with Harlow the group disbanded in 2009 when Rebel encountered strong censorship from his manager/producer, and from the recording industry in general, about Rebel's desire to be an openly gay musician, and yearning to produce his own brand of dance pop music even since his days in No Authority.

[19] In 2012 Rebel won the RAWards Musician of Year Award,[20] where he debuted his first big single "Geisha Dance.

[citation needed] Over 2015, he performed with multiple artists on tours, including Colbie Caillat and Blood On The Dance Floor.

[28] In late 2015 Rebel secured a sponsorship agreement with the cosmetics company Mustaev USA,[29] and subsequently produced the music video for his single "Boys and Sometimes Girls" directed by Rock Jacobs.

[32] Rebel also performed at Gay Pride festivals in major cities like Phoenix, Long Beach, Orange County,[5] Palm Springs, San Diego,[32] and Las Vegas.

[34] Since 2015 Rebel has been working with DJ's Hector Fonseca, Casey Alva, and Tommy Love[27] to remix his songs "Star" and "Boys and Sometimes Girls.

"[35] In 2017, "Boys & Sometimes Girls" spent 9 weeks on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart and peaked at No.

He later started working on a custom jewelry line called the "Ricky Rebel Renaissance" collection.

ELLE [42] magazine also named Ricky, as well as David Bowie and Madonna, to their Most Outrageous GRAMMYs Outfits in History list.

[citation needed] At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards Rebel wore a pro-Donald Trump jacket.