Biography

Eric Barao, a singer-songwriter from a small town that straddles the line between Massachusetts and Rhode Island (not an island), has been honing his craft since age 3, when he wrote his first song about a newly purchased truck that immediately gets a flat tire. This thread of cynicism runs throughout Eric’s discography to this day, in songs such as “Don’t Get Me Started”, “Keep It To Yourself”, “In Love With a Broken Heart”, “Trying Too Hard” and many, many more.

After studying songwriting and receiving a degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Eric was a founding member and lead-singer of The Cautions, where he gained traction on the power-pop circuit. In 2001, the band had placed Top 10 finalists in the American Music Awards national songwriting contest, sponsored by Dick Clark, Coca-Cola, CMJ and Clear Channel.

After the release of The Cautions final album in 2005, Eric embarked on a solo recording career and in 2013, released his debut solo album recorded with power-pop artist Bleu– songwriter to artists such as The Jonas Brothers, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and more.

In between his albums, a number of side-projects took place, including several film-scoring endeavors (‘Balls of Fury’ starring Christopher Walken, ‘Raising Matty Christian’, and ‘Turbocharge: The Unauthorized Story of The Cars’).

In 2019, Eric made his long-awaited followup ‘Obsolete’ EP, which featured guests Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Beck, Jellyfish, The Lickerish Quartet) and Mike Viola (The Candy Butchers, Mandy Moore, Ryan Adams, Panic! at the Disco). Working with Grammy Award winning recording engineer Ducky Carlisle, the aesthetic of this album was a decidedly Beatlesque turn, attempting to re-create the techniques and studio magic of albums like Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour and The White Album.

The most recent post-pandemic (is it over?) album ‘From My Planet To Your Star’ (2022) marks the first time Eric has fully self-recorded, self-produced and even mastered his own album. It’s a decidedly intimate record full of regret, longing and venomous anger, bringing the cynical thread full-circle.

Eric continues to write, record and sometimes perform, and has appeared on more than 20 various albums spanning over two decades.