Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Luis Ribeiro has shown the tendency and fascination for percussions since his tender childhood by playing with forks, spoons and saucepans.

At the age of 14 he was one of the youngest rhythmic players on the percussion ensemble of the Vai-Vai and later Camisa Verde e Branco Samba-School.

On the early 90’s Luis came to Europe and participated of the 2nd Jazz Festival New York - Brazil - Bern with Teddy Bärlocher and Gil Goldstein.

Later he moves to Austria and studied drum set at the University for Music and Arts in Vienna.

Ribeiro worked with big names from the local and also international music scene like Gloria Gaynor, Ricky Martin, Jaroslaw Zawadski featuring Bob Berg, Erick Marienthal, Bill Evans, Frank Gambale und Dean Brown; also with Byron Stingly, DJ Tom Novy, The Vienna Art Orchestra & Ray Anderson, Dancing Stars I & II, Sandra Pires, Count Basic, Georg Danzer und Timna Brauer.

Concerts throught Europe, South America and Africa: Stadthalle, Wiener Musikverein, Konzerthaus and Brucknerhaus in Austria; Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Israel, Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Brazil, Senegal, Gambia, Tanzania, Germany, Swiss, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Belgrade, Prague, etc.