Born in Far Rock Away Queens NY, Ramon Rivas is perhaps best known for engineering several Grammy award-winning albums for recording artists such as Beyonce, Jay-Z, Justin Bieber & Ariana Grande respectively. Thereafter, Rivas connected with Mel Testamark and signed a publishing in-house deal with So So Def Recordings as an in-house engineer. At 17 Rivas joined So So Def Recordings In 1998, Rivas moved to Atlanta after he was offered a full time position with the label by founder, Jermaine Dupri. Additionally, Ramon was an engineer and mixing assistant on the Despicable Me Movie and Soundtrack. Most recently, under the pseudonym 9000, Ramon has produced and released his own album "Touch My Soul Again 2" and the single Chill's "I Used To Be". Ramon co-wrote many of the songs on the album, as well as providing vocals and much of the engineering expertise.