Welcome to The Ringo Report. My name is Phia Ringo. I’m dedicated to giving you the very best in music journalism. My method of going about this is to ensure a broad variety of musical genres and artists are being reported on. Much of my work will surround the Chicago area, and Chicago-based artists, but there will be some straying outside the city limits to maintain the diversity within my writing.
“You ain’t gotta change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.”
Lupe Fiasco
I am a native Chicagoan, born and raised in Rogers Park. Attending school in neighborhoods like Lincoln Park, Bronzeville, Ukrainian Village, and Little Italy gave me an incredibly wide scope of my understanding and immersion within the city. As a high schooler, I attended a public arts high school and made very strong connections within the industry. Though I majored in musical theatre, I made it a point to be immersed in every artistic medium that was available to me. This made the gravitation towards music a very strong and natural pull, I was in love. This made me into the well-rounded artist I find myself to be today, though I am always learning and finding new ways to expand my realm of artistic knowledge.
I have been writing for a long time as a coping mechanism for the craziness that the world seems to increasingly be gaining. I then focussed on other writing forms such as poetry, playwriting, film writing, and multiple other forms of creative writing. After many years of therapy and medication, the obvious support that writing gave me as a person was revealed, and I fell in love with it even harder.
Finding the connection that writing has with music was seamless and easy. Finding the music within my writing is what makes the two mediums so intriguing and inspirational to me. I aim to provide the perfect balance of musical and literary intrigue to inform and inspire and hopefully cast a light on new or lesser-known artists in the area. I believe the world has endless abilities to create, and know that casting lights on those creators is my purpose. I am a passionate person who is very dedicated to the importance of the arts, and will stop at nothing to bring at least a little bit of redefinition to that universal pulse, that musical heartbeat of our lives.