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Rich Robinson
Rich Robinson (born 1969, Atlanta) is the Black Crowes' lead guitarist and co-founder with brother Chris, writer of their guitar parts including She Talks to Angels, a solo artist, Magpie Salute member, and open-tuning specialist.
Rich the Kid
Rich the Kid, born Dimitri Leslie Roger, is an American rapper from Queens who built his career in Atlanta's trap scene and founded Rich Forever Music.
Richa Sharma (रिचा शर्मा) (singer)
Richa Sharma (रिचा शर्मा), Bollywood playback and devotional singer from Faridabad, Haryana; known for Mahi Ve (Kaante), Sajda (My Name Is Khan), Baabul bidaai song, and judging Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.
Richard Ashcroft
Richard Ashcroft (ריצ'רד אשקרופט), born 1971 in Wigan, is an English singer-songwriter, frontman of The Verve and a solo artist known for "Bitter Sweet Symphony".
Richard Barbieri
Richard Barbieri (born 1957, London) is the British synthesist of Japan and Porcupine Tree, a Jansen/Barbieri and Rain Tree Crow collaborator, and a solo ambient artist on Kscope.
Richard Bedford
Richard Bedford is a British vocalist and lyricist from Halifax, England, known as the "voice of trance" for his work with Above & Beyond and Armin van Buuren.
Richard Bona
Richard Bona, born Bona Pinder Yayumayalolo, is a Cameroonian bassist, singer, and composer whose jazz fusion is built on makossa rhythms; he won a Grammy with the Pat Metheny Group.
Richard Butler (singer)
Richard Butler (born 1956, Kingston upon Thames) is the English singer, songwriter, and painter who co-founded the Psychedelic Furs in 1977, fronted Love Spit Love, released a 2006 solo album, and returned with Made of Rain (2020).
Richard Carpenter (musician)
Richard Lynn Carpenter (born 1946, New Haven) is the American pianist, arranger, and producer of the Carpenters duo with sister Karen; 100 million records, three Grammys, solo albums Time and Piano Songbook.
Richard Cheese
Richard Cheese, stage name of Mark Jonathan Davis (born 1965), is a Los Angeles comedy lounge act performing swing versions of rock and rap hits with Lounge Against the Machine; 30+ albums since 2000, songs in Dawn of the Dead and Army of the Dead.
Richard Christy
Richard Christy (born 1974, Fort Scott, Kansas) is an American drummer and radio personality, drummer on Death's The Sound of Perseverance and Control Denied's The Fragile Art of Existence, Iced Earth drummer 2000-2004, and Howard Stern Show staffer since 2004, now leading Charred Walls of the Damned.
Richard Clayderman
Richard Clayderman, stage name of Philippe Pagès (born 1953, Paris), French easy-listening pianist; "Ballade pour Adeline" sold 22 million copies in 38 countries; over 90 million records and 267 Gold discs; popular especially in Asia.
Richard D. James Album
Richard D. James Album, also called the RDJ album, is Aphex Twin's fourth studio album, released 4 November 1996 on Warp Records; 10 tracks, 32 minutes, fusing drill 'n' bass breakbeats with childlike melodies, his last Aphex Twin LP until Drukqs (2001).
Richard Durand
Richard Durand, born Richard van Schooneveld in 1976, is a Dutch trance DJ and producer known for remixing Tiësto and the In Search of Sunrise series.
Richard Fairbrass
Richard Fairbrass (born 1953) is a British singer and bassist, frontman of Right Said Fred with brother Fred; their 1991 debut single I'm Too Sexy hit number one in the US and about 30 countries.
Richard Fortus
Richard Fortus (born 1966) is an American guitarist from St. Louis, longest-serving guitarist of Guns N' Roses (joined 2001/2002), former Love Spit Love and Thin Lizzy member, known for Gretsch Filter'Tron tone built to complement Slash.
Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist born 1967 in Sheffield; ex-Longpigs and Pulp touring guitarist; solo albums Coles Corner, Standing at the Sky's Edge; Olivier-winning musical.
Richard Hell
Richard Hell (Richard Meyers, born 1949) is a New York punk pioneer of Television and the Voidoids, creator of Blank Generation, and originator of the safety-pin punk look, later a novelist.
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, formed 1976 in New York by Richard Hell, Robert Quine, Ivan Julian, and Marc Bell, were a first-wave New York punk band. Albums Blank Generation (1977) and Destiny Street (1982); Hell's spiked hair and torn shirts shaped punk's image.
Richard Jones (The Feeling)
Richard Jones, The Feeling bassist, English founding member of the British pop rock band The Feeling (met Dan Sells at BRIT School 1995); also Sophie Ellis-Bextor's husband and bassist; distinct from Stereophonics' Richard Jones.
Richard Kruspe
Richard Kruspe (born Zven Kruspe, 1967, Wittenberge) is Rammstein's lead guitarist and founder, and the singer-guitarist of the English-language side project Emigrate, with four albums since 2007.
Richard M. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman (1928-2024), American composer-lyricist of the Sherman Brothers with brother Robert; wrote Mary Poppins songs, It's a Small World, two Oscars, nine nominations, Disney Legend.
Richard Manuel
Richard Manuel (1943–1986), Canadian singer, pianist, and songwriter of the Band; joined the Hawks in 1961, sang lead on Music from Big Pink, co-wrote "Tears of Rage" with Dylan, died in Winter Park, Florida, in 1986.
Richard Marx
Richard Marx (Richard Noel Marx, born 1963, Chicago) is an American pop-rock singer-songwriter; his 1987 debut yielded four chart-topping singles, "Right Here Waiting" hit No. 1 in 1989, and he won the 2004 Song of the Year Grammy for "Dance with My Father."
Richard Page (musician)
Richard Page (born 1953, Keokuk, Iowa) is the American singer-bassist who fronted Mr. Mister, not the Ottawa saxophonist or Jimmy Page. Pages and Mr. Mister hits "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie"; later songwriter for Madonna and All-Starr Band member.
Richard Patrick
Richard Michael Patrick, American rock musician from Bay Village, Ohio; Nine Inch Nails' first touring guitarist (1989–1993) and founder/frontman of industrial rock band Filter, known for "Hey Man Nice Shot" and "Take a Picture," plus Army of Anyone and A Place to Kill.
Richard Perry
Richard Van Perry (1942–2024), American record producer behind "You're So Vain," "Without You," Ringo's 1973 album with all four Beatles, and Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook; founder of Planet Records, Grammy Trustees Award 2015.
Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers (1902–1979), American Broadway composer of Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music; partnered with Lorenz Hart then Oscar Hammerstein II; first PEGOT winner.
Richard Rodney Bennett
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012), English composer and pianist, worked in serialist concert music, Oscar-nominated film scores such as Murder on the Orient Express, and jazz cabaret; New York-based from 1979, knighted 1998.
Richard Rudolph
Richard Rudolph, born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an American songwriter and record producer who co-wrote "Lovin' You", Minnie Riperton's 1974 worldwide number-one hit, and co-produced her album Perfect Angel.