Richard Niles is an American composer, arranger, record producer, guitarist, broadcaster, and journalist.
18 Facts About Richard Niles
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Richard Niles is the son of Tony Romano, a composer, singer, and guitarist who writes films, books, plays, and lectures in screenwriting.
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Richard Niles's father worked with Bing Crosby, Ray Heindorf, Bob Hope, Cole Porter, Pat Silver-Lasky, Frank Sinatra, and Joe Venuti.
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Richard Niles's parents divorced in 1959, and three years later the 8-year-old Niles moved with his mother to London.
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Richard Niles grew up in the care of his mother and stepfather, Jesse Lasky Jr.
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Richard Niles has composed, arranged and produced music for Anita Baker, Cilla Black, James Brown, Ray Charles, Cher, Petula Clark, Randy Crawford, Gloria Gaynor, Lulu, Paul McCartney, Pet Shop Boys, Tears For Fears, Tina Turner, and Deniece Williams.
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Richard Niles arranged the Grace Jones album Slave to the Rhythm.
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Richard Niles wrote arrangements for Pet Shop Boys, Swing Out Sister, Living in a Box, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ABC, and Was.
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Richard Niles has worked with Cliff Richard, Barry Manilow, Ray Charles, Stephen Gately, Ronan Keating, and contributed to hits for Wet Wet Wet, Damage, O-Town, OTT, Take That, Boyzone, and Westlife, including their duet "Against All Odds" with Mariah Carey.
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Richard Niles appeared as the leader of the house band, Bandzilla, in Ruby Wax's Channel 4 television series Don't Miss Wax.
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Richard Niles wrote and arranged for both Joe Cocker and James Brown on this series.
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Richard Niles wrote, arranged, and produced music for Pat Metheny, Bob Mintzer, John Patitucci, Jane Monheit and Bob James.
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Richard Niles released the albums Santa Rita and Club Deranged.
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Richard Niles arranged two albums for the British singer Paul Carrack; Rain Or Shine and Soul Shadows.
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Richard Niles has worked for the advertising industry, composing and producing music for TV commercials including McDonald's, Max Factor, Toshiba, Wall's, Nescafe and EuroDisney.
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Richard Niles has taught and given masterclasses in the UK at Brunel University, Leeds College of Music, The Royal Northern College of Music, The Academy of Contemporary Music, The Institute of Contemporary Music and The Tech Schools of Music.
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In 1982, Richard Niles was married to vocalist Tessa Richard Niles; they divorced in 1988.
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Richard Niles married Aylin Marquez in 1999 and they have one child, Alexander, born in 2002.