Richard X. Heyman
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'Richard X. Heyman is an American singer-songwriter, born in 1951 and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, who has released six albums ("Living Room!!", 1988; "Hey Man!", 1990; "Cornerstone", 1998; "Basic Glee", 2002; "Rightovers", 2003 and "Actual Sighs", 2007), two EP's ("Actual Size", 1986 and "Heyman, Hoosier & Herman", 2001), one single ("Vacation" b/w "Takin' My Chances", 1980), a memoirs entitled "Boom Harangue" and a video retrospective of his career, "X-Posures."
Heyman released his first indie EP, "Actual Size," a collection of six of his finest songs recorded on an 8-track Tascam machine in a home studio, in 1986, the same studio in which Richard would subsequently record his album Living Room!!, released in 1988.
Heyman started banging on things when he was five, got a full drum kit when he was seven, and was an accomplished drummer by the time he was twelve. He picked up guitar and piano in his teens, which was also when he began writing songs. Richard went solo in his twenties, although he’s also drummed for such artists as Brian Wilson, Link Wray, Jonathan Richman and the Left Banke’s Michael Brown, composer of "Walk Away Renee." He also played keyboards for the legendary Ben E. King. His influences are as varied as Bernstein to The Beatles, Richard Rodgers to the Rascals, and the Blues to The Byrds. On the live front, Richard leads his own band on guitar and keyboards. He and his wife, Nancy, live on Manhattan's Lower East Side along with their nineteen felines.
