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Richard Hartley is a New York-based singer, arranger, songwriter, actor and musical director who has spent much of his career helping other major artists sound their best. He's recorded and/or performed with Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Tricky, Kelly Price, Candi Staton, Dottie Peoples and many more. Starting as youth in New York, Richard began singing at the age of four in church and grew up to be one of the premier choir directors in the city. After being selected for a role in Vy Higgensen's "Mama I Want To Sing" he went on to hold several principal roles in this hit musical, touring in fifteen countries with this production and appearing on the cast recording. He appears in two Mariah Carey videos and has performed on The Grammy Awards show, Late Night With David Letterman, Show Time At The Apollo, Soul Train, The Soul Train Music Awards, Donnie Marie and more. Richard Hartley and The Soul Resurrection can be described as Luther Vandross onstage with Walter Hawkins and The Hawkins Family, infused with the rhythms of Sade and Maxwell as backed by a band reminiscent of Earth, Wind & Fire.

The group has electrified capacity audiences in Central Park, Manhattan night clubs, store-front churches, RFK Stadium in Washington DC and more as well as appearing as featured vocalists for Diana Ross in the ABC Movie Of The Week "Double Platinum" and on Good Day New York, Postively Black, the NBC Nightly News, CNN and more. The release of "Lovepower Live in Tokyo with The Soul Resurrection" is a must for lovers of both Gospel and Soul music.