Alt-rock duo. Grit, gloss, and substance.
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The first thing that grabs you is the voice. Soulful, rich, and indifferent to gravity, it soars over melodic, detailed pop that’s unlike anything you’ve heard before but something you instantly want to hear again. Richard's playful personality and undeniable charm has captured the hearts of the internet.

Richard's debut single ‘Proud’ garnered lots of buzz, as well as earning him 450k streams and his follow up single ‘The One’ was met with equal enthusiasm with over 400k streams. Both songs were semi-finalists in the 2020 International Songwriting Competition and 'The One' has placed in The UnsignedOnly Music Competition, as a Semi-finalist in July 2021 in the categories of Pop/Top 40 and Screen Shot. 

Richard's newest single ‘Hands’ dropped in April 2021 earning him a featured spot in MusicBC's Artist of The Week and 2021 CMW featured showcase, a placement in the semi-finals of the UnsignedOnly Music Competition in the Pop/Top 40 category and to set the stage for this emerging artist, has earned himself the Grand Prize Winner spot in the Jim Beam® Virtual National Talent Search in partnership with Canadian Music Week. The competitions webisodes garnered over 5.7 million impressions and counting and includes a performance spot for Richard live on stage at the 2022 Jim Beam® INDIE Awards in front of thousands of industry insiders and indie fans from Canada and around the world who are looking for the next big thing.

Richard is just getting started, you can expect more great things to come from this multifaceted pop star in the making.

The $5.29 million PEAK Performance Project is designed to educate, promote, develop and hopefully launch the careers of some of British Columbia’s top emerging artists. It also hopes to foster the province’s music industry and create a sense of community amongst music professionals. In addition to the rigorous six month artist development program and the $315,000.00 in artist development funding, The Pattison Group of Companies will also contribute an annual media credit of $1,000,000.00 in support of the PEAK Performance Project by marketing, promoting and advertising the PEAK Performance Project and the participating artists making it the largest individual radio station project in Canada.


Founded in 1987, Vancouver Film School is Canada's premier post-secondary entertainment arts institution and one of the most distinguished in the world. With 13 production-oriented programs and a world-leading one-year education model, VFS prepares students to join the creative economy. 

In the Sound Design for Visual Media program students learn to unite sound and image in film, television, animation, and video games. Students develop vital, industry-ready skills in key areas including sound effects editing and recording, Foley, and dialogue editing. Sound Design alumni have worked on such films as Iron Man, Despicable Me, Zombieland, Ratatouille, and How to Train Your Dragon, and hit games like Mass Effect 2, Crysis 2, and World of Warcraft. To find out more, visit <a href="http://vfs.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">vfs.com</a>.



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