Chad Richardson

Chad Richardson
Birth name	Andrew Chad Richardson
Born	17 March 1970 (1970-03-17) (age 41) St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Origin	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres	rock

Chad Richardson (born Andrew Chad Richardson 17 March 1970) is a musician from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada). He released two rock albums on the Aquarius label in the 1990s.^[1][2] Richardson also appeared in the Canadian musical theatre production of Rent.^[3]

History

While attending the music program at Concordia University in Montreal, Richardson won a nationwide search by HMV for Canada's "best undiscovered vocalist", which led to the recording of his first independent album 2 People. In 1997, Richardson won the Homegrown contest sponsored by Toronto radio station Q107. This led to the production of his second record, The Legends of Brud, which features eleven songs he wrote himself, and a record deal with Aquarius/EMI.^[4]

While recording The Legends of Brud,^[1] Richardson auditioned for the Canadian production of the Broadway musical Rent, landing the lead and soon after receiving a Dora nomination for his performance.^[3][5] After the show's run he was transferred to the Broadway production. While in New York, he produced his third album no. 1 fan, and also appeared as a young David Bowie in the video for "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell".^[6]

Richardson resides in Los Angeles and is Vice-President of the recording studio and production company Inside Music Inc. He is also a principal partner in Arrival at Eleven Productions, which specializes in music for television, film and video games.

Richardson is one half of the production/songwriting team jACK (along with partner Craig McConnell).^[7] The pair won the USA Songwriting Competition for best R&B song in 2002.

Discography

Singles

Various artists compilations

• 1996 Q107 Homegrown Album Volume 17 (MCA Records)^[8]

Albums

• 1995 2 People (reissue on Aquarius)^[2]
• 1997 The Legends of Brud (Aquarius/EMI)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Library and Archives Canada. "AMICUS No. 17118375". collectionscanada.gc.ca/lac-bac/search/all. canada.gc.ca/main e.html. http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2011-01-26T19%3A57%3A46Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=17118375&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Aamicus. Retrieved 26 January 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Library and Archives Canada. "AMICUS No. 27159765". collectionscanada.gc.ca/lac-bac/search/all. canada.gc.ca/main e.html. http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2011-01-26T20%3A04%3A16Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=27159765&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Aamicus. Retrieved 26 January 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Lefkowitz, David (23 June 1998). "Canadian Opera's Oedipus Wins 8 Dora Awards", Playbill.com. Retrieved 27 January 2011
4. ^ "Chad it is, then". The Globe and Mail: p. C1. 27 October 1997. 
5. ^ Kovarik, Lisa (20 November 1998). "Chasing a dream: Rent catapulted Chad Richardson into the spotlight – now he's hoping to focus more on his own music", The Telegram, p. 13.
6. ^ Bliss, Karen (9 September 1999). "Cdn. actor in new Bowie video", Jam! Music. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
7. ^ CHARTattack Staff (9 January 2004). "Queer Eye Culture Guru Jai Rodriguez Preps Album". chartattack.com. Chart (magazine). http://www.chartattack.com/news/35309/queer-eye-culture-guru-jai-rodriguez-preps-album. Retrieved 26 January 2011. 
8. ^ "Chad Richardson Artist Profile". rateyourmusic.com. Rate Your Music. http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/chad_richardson. Retrieved 26 January 2011. 

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Name	Richardson, Chad
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Date of birth	17 March 1970
Place of birth	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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