Richard X. Heyman

Richard X. Heyman is an American singer-songwriter,

Biography

Heyman was born in 1951 and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey. He 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 and guitar for the lead singer of The Shangri-Las, Mary Weiss. 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. Richard is also currently the drummer and contributing songwriter for legendary New Jersey garage rockers, The Doughboys (New Jersey). He and his wife, Nancy, live in Manhattan.

Discography

Heyman has released nine albums ("Living Room!!", 1988; "Hey Man!", 1990; "Cornerstone", 1998; "Basic Glee", 2002; "Rightovers", 2003, "Actual Sighs", 2007, "Intakes", 2009 and the 2-CD set "Tiers/And Other Stories, 2011), 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 1987, the same studio in which Richard would subsequently record his album Living Room!!, released in 1988.

External links

• Richard X. Heyman's Website