Richard Niles

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Niles
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	May 28, 1951(1951-05-28)
Age	73
Birthplace	Hollywood
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Gemini

Richard Niles Biography

Richard Niles is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on May 28, 1951 in Hollywood, California, United States.

Returning to London in 1975, he signed to Essex Records as a writer, becoming staff arranger and producer of songwriter demos for Essex and EMI Music. This indirectly led to becoming musical director and arranger for Cat Stevens. On British television series for David Essex and Leo Sayer he arranged and conducted for Ronnie Spector, Twiggy, Kate Bush, and Denny Laine. In 1978 as staff arranger for Hansa Records he discovered Sarah Brightman and arranged both his and her first hit, “I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper”. He 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, Tina Turner, and Deniece Williams. He arranged the Grace Jones album Slave to the Rhythm. Niles also scored and conducted strings on Depeche Mode songs “Home”, “Only When I Lose Myself” and “Surrender” and for Berlin’s “Sex Me Talk Me”. He wrote arrangements for Pet Shop Boys, Swing Out Sister, Living in a Box, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ABC, and Was (Not Was). He 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.

In 1982, Niles was married to vocalist Tessa Niles; they divorced in 1988. He married Aylin Marquez in 1999 and they have one child, Alexander, born in

2002. Alexander is a musician and actor performing in Francis Ford Coppola’s Distant Vision.

Richard Niles Net Worth

Richard Niles is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Niles 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Niles was born May 28, 1951, in Hollywood. He is the son of Tony Romano, a composer, singer, and guitarist who writes films, books, plays, and lectures in screenwriting. His father worked with Bing Crosby, Ray Heindorf, Bob Hope, Cole Porter, Pat Silver-Lasky, Frank Sinatra, and Joe Venuti. His parents divorced in 1959, and three years later the 8-year-old Niles moved with his mother to London. He grew up in the care of his mother and stepfather, Jesse Lasky Jr.,a poet, playwright and screenwriter. Niles toured Britain with his group Pure Wings (1969-1970) and then decided to study. According to Niles in an interview with HitQuarters, although his parents were critical about his choice to become a musician, they eventually supported his studies. In 1975 he received a degree in composition from the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied with Gary Burton, Michael Gibbs, Pat Metheny, and Herb Pomeroy. He received his Ph.D. from Brunel University in 2008.

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Who is Richard Niles Dating?

According to our records, Richard Niles married to Aylin Marquez , Tessa Niles. As of December 1, 2023, Richard Niles’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1999, Niles discovered the Norwegian singer/songwriter Silje Nergaard, producing and co-writing three albums, Tell Me Where You’re Going (EMI/Lifetime Records 1990), Cow On The Highway (Toshiba/EMI 1991) and Silje (Toshiba/EMI 1992). Their song “Tell Me Where You’re Going” (b/w a duet of the same song with Pat Metheny) was Number 1 in Japan on the J-Wave charts.

Facts & Trivia

Roberto Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Richard Niles celebrates birthday on May 28 of every year.

In 2012, Niles moved to Southern California where he opened his studio and production/publishing company Niles Smiles Music.