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[center][color=#cecece][b]   [color=10100f]█ ███ ██ █[/color]   S U M M A R Y  [color=10100f] █ ██ ███ █ [/color][/b][/color][/center][/sub]
[indent][sub][color=#10100f][b]EPHRAIM LORENZO CATTANEO[/b][/color]
[color=#10100f][b]AGE[/b][/color] [color=dcdcdc]Thirty-one[/color]
[color=#10100f][b]GENDER[/b][/color] [color=dcdcdc]Male[/color]
[color=#10100f][b]ETHNICITY/RACE[/b][/color] [color=dcdcdc]Italian-American[/color]
[color=#10100f][b]MARTIAL STATUS[/b][/color] [color=dcdcdc]Single[/color]
[color=#10100f][b]SEXUALITY[/b][/color] [color=dcdcdc]Heterosexual[/color]
[/sub][/indent][sub][color=#2e2c2c]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔[/color][/sub][/cell][cell][color=#10100f][b]▅[/b][/color][color=cecece][sub][b]BIOGRAPHY[/b][/sub][/color][color=#10100f][b]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[/b][/color][indent][color=dcdcdc][justify][sub]Ephraim was born 1994 to an American mother and immigrant Italian father, and while their whirlwind romance was deep and passionate, it was also not destined to last. Following their dramatic blow-up and subsequent separation, Ephraim spent most of his childhood and formative adolescence being shipped between his mother's spacious and expensive Tribeca loft apartment, and his father's cozy and well-lived city house in Milan. Any time neither could take him, he was instead deposited at one of several boarding schools, never spending more than a single semester there before being pulled out and put back on a plane. His upbringing was, in a word, turbulent, and he found himself unable to put down roots in any one place, and while he was loved by his parents, the disconnect and lingering animosity between mother and father bled into the son's interactions with both. He was, as a result, a surly child, difficult at times, constantly re-adjusting; he got used to his own company, the only reliable, consistent relationship in his life. 

The only other constant for Ephraim was music: at his mother's insistence he undertook classical training, her loft and many boarding school classrooms echoing daily with the sounds of piano, violin, guitar, cello, saxophone, drums; Ephraim was something of an omniglot for instruments, and found plying the desired sounds from each astonishingly easy. His father was more lax with the upkeep of Ephraim's carefully-curated musical syllabus, but still encouraged this burgeoning passion and obvious talent in his son; Milan offered many opportunities to explore the living artform of music, and the city's thriving electronica scene expanded Ephraim's horizons and showed him what music could be outside of graded tutoring - the ways the rules could be played with, experimented on, torn up and thrown out.

Once Ephraim came of age, the obvious choice was to carry on his musical studies - the only solid, persistant education he had - and enrol in university. He started at Berklee, found a student house, settled somewhere for more than a year for the first time in his life, met people, made friends, got a job; he maintained a distinctly private, individualistic lifestyle, always comfortable in silence, never lonely in his own company. He began to make his way in the world, music ever-present.

He never finished his studies or graduated Berklee; but that didn't seem to matter much in the long run.
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[color=#10100f][b]▅[/b][/color][color=cecece][sub][b]CAREER[/b][/sub][/color][color=#10100f][b]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[/b][/color][indent][color=dcdcdc][justify][sub]Ephraim began experimenting with music production at Berklee at the behest of his roommate, Hudson, who was starting a band and needed a discerning ear to clean up the demos. Ephraim was initially just mixing the early self-published mixtapes, but quickly began to branch out, playing with a fusion of his classical training and the electronica sounds of Milan - with increasing punk rock influence thanks to the escapades of Hudson's band and what he'd learnt mixing their EP. On Hudson's whim, he played one 'open mic' set at a local club, a show that met with enough success as to frighten Ephraim. The clamour to know who he was, where he came from, how he drew his influences and experiences together into his music - it was all too much and far too intrusive for the naturally private and reserved Ephraim. He couldn't open up his life like that, couldn't be the frontman he needed to be to see success on a wider scale. And then Hudson had an idea.

Thus was born "Bobby Rifo", a masked DJ of undeniable talent, his 'true identity' kept a well-guarded secret and his face never seen. Local shows built groundswell and word-of-mouth that 'Rifo' - and behind the scenes, Hudson - quickly converted into a record-setting sales and streaming explosion when Bobby Rifo dropped his first EP and then a full album a few short months later, and from there, he steamrolled into a full-blown electronica phenomenon. In between albums, Rifo sold out multiple Boiler Room shows, peaked charts in domestic and foreign markets, won awards, played Saturday nights at Glastonbury and Coachella, headlined Tomorrowland, and collaborated with other househould names like Deadmau5, Skrillex, Four Tet and Fred Again. All the while, Ephraim Cattaneo was able to move out of notice beneath the public eye, hidden from view and able to maintain a successful double-life.

More recently, in the wake of AI, Rifo has stripped back; his equipment has become increasingly analog, anyone in his employ wears [url=https://preview.redd.it/dwhhjb8wmyi71.jpg?auto=webp&s=c14dbcb50014d45b1c5b6fbcddf0302f93280793]anti-facial-recognition makeup[/url], and he's begun streamlining out purely digital tools from his process. Across social media, Rifo's gone on the anti-AI warpath, his stance divisive but winning him as many new listeners as it's lost; and now, on the cusp of 2026, corporately-pushed AI infecting every facet of society it can find, Rifo's audience eagerly awaits his much-teased upcoming album - unaware that it will likely be his last.[/sub][/justify][/color][/indent][sup][color=#2e2c2c]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔[/color][/sup][/cell][/row][/table][/indent][/indent][color=#10100f][b]▅[/b][/color][color=cecece][sub][b]SUPPORTING CAST[/b][/sub][/color][color=#10100f][b]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[/b][/color][table][row][cell][center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019ba069-9f7a-7572-8d6b-92be7bcb7c67.webp[/img]
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[/cell][cell][indent][color=dcdcdc][justify][sub][b]FELIX[/b]
A friend of Rifo and carefully selected to be his PR/Press Agent. A level head and an affable personality, Felix is a far more public 'face' for Rifo than Ephraim himself has to be, and there's many an interview where Felix stands in as a buffer between Rifo and the press. Felix does his job well, but he's never actually spoken to Ephraim in-person - they communicate exclusively through proxy, whether that be call, text, or email.[/sub][/justify][/color][/indent][cell][center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019ba087-60ba-7238-a102-566fbbf05004.webp[/img]
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Ephraim's roommate at Berklee, frontman of his own band and also a member of an exclusive circle who knows Ephraim [i]and[/i] Rifo, mostly because he came up with the persona in the first place. A tattoo artist in his day job, he's also a frequent collaborator behind-the-scenes, assisting on production and writing for Rifo's albums.[/sub][/justify][/color][/indent][/cell][/cell]
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[cell][indent][color=dcdcdc][justify][sub][b]MIRABELLA[/b]
Ephraim's on-again, off-again 'situationship' of a girlfriend, a Milan native he met during his adolescene when staying with his father. She's a semi-successful singer in her own right, though only within Italy and not breaking out of the country, and while she's fond of Ephraim, his privacy and reluctance to risk the double-life with papparazi connecting dots if Rifo was seen with her makes a true relationship difficult.[/sub][/justify][/color][/indent][/cell][cell][center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019ba069-c48e-745e-90cb-8db33a8afb57.webp[/img]
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[cell][indent][color=dcdcdc][justify][sub][b]GORDON[/b]
Rifo's direct manager at the label, a grizzled veteran of the music industry and a friend of Ephraim's mother from the old days, although Gordon himself isn't aware of the connection. He's deftly sheparded Rifo's career for over a decade now, securing important bookings and media coverage, and is well-respected by Ephraim and his peers for his future-sight and keen eye.[/sub][/justify][/color][/indent][/cell][/row][/table]