CARLO RIBAUX

ABOUT CARLO RIBAUX

Carlo is a Swiss drummer living and working both in Zürich and Los Angeles.

Carlo has recorded for Warner Brothers’ Emmy winning “The Tom & Jerry Show”,  the video game "Fortnite", PBS documentaries "And She Could Be Next" and "We Are The Radical Monarchs", various commercials. He's also recorded with a plethora of bands and artists. In 2018, he scored a video for the New York Times.

Thanks to his stylistic flexibility as a player, Carlo has performed with around one hundred artists and bands from a wide variety of musical backgrounds. He’s played in Asia, Europe and North America with violin virtuoso Gingger Shankar, toured South America and Mexico with Nickelodeon’s Heffron Drive and played the US and Canada with EDM DJ and Grammy nominee Coucheron, just to name a few examples. He's also played for Swiss artists Bastian Baker and Shem Thomas.

Carlo has played a number of major television events, including the 2018 Video Game Awards (26 million viewers), Premios Telehit 2017 in Mexico (20+ million viewers) and the first-ever televised TED Talk in Mumbai, India. As an actor, he's starred in national commercials, including a Volkswagen commercial shown during each game of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The music videos he's starred in have been viewed more than one million times collectively.

In 2021 his original Ska-Punk band Victory Kid got signed to the Austrian Punk label SBÄM. Their debut album "Discernation" counts more than 2 million streams on Spotify and a similar amout on Youtube. Past original projects of his include the riot grrrl formation WASI, queer hard rock band MARY, and emo band Westland. 

Carlo has a Bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music and a Master's degree from the Winterthur Academy for Contemporary Music. He graduated “Summa Cum Laude” from both schools. He wrote a 90 page Master's thesis about the "Money-Beat" and simplicty in music and for his Master's concert he rearranged music written for Nintendo 64 games and played it with a Fusion four-piece. For his Bachelor's concert he covered Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull with a full band.