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I thought of sharing this with you guys incase you didn't know. I was THOROUGHLY impressed by this. Ricardo has an amazing voice.
Thanks. I had to start learning when my flamenco/rumba singer quite aka "dropped the ball" on me, and left me stuck to fill a large roster of gigs in 2019. It was hard because I never understood how to take the voice through the passagio (vocal break). I found a cool teacher and took his course and took a couple private classes with another teacher on line. I did not learn much except one trick that today I realize is simply "reinforced falsetto", such that 3 of 6 vowels can glide through the passagio (think of first 7 notes on the first string of the guitar), however, it is not good way to sing in general. Because Spanish lyrics and and stuff were hard to focus on while learning technique I got back into my old metal favorites. Because the letras were a non issue and I could focus on vowels, all during the pandemic when I was not working much.
After some years of personal study I have slowly developed the more "operatic" method or mechanism where you use a low larynx tubular sound and tilt. Now I know this, I realize like 80% or more of pop and rock metal singers are doing the speaking voice reinforced falsetto on open vowels (like I am attempting above.) because it is almost impossible to develop the intuition for doing the reinforced falsetto with the low larynx. It is a frustrating thing, so I no longer try to sing super high like the above video (which today sounds hilariously wrong to me ), and focus on slowly building the low larynx sound in the lower middle passagio.
A few tunes I will deliver an open vowel held note here or there, but slowly transitioning away from it, one note at time, replacing with a more robust tonal quality.
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), and focus on slowly building the low larynx sound in the lower middle passagio. 
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