- Real name
- Renald Joseph Richard
- Born
- May 3, 1925
- Died
- November 26, 2021
- Country
- United States
- IPI
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00025960383 3 works
00136663662 3 works
- Affiliation
- BMI
- Comments
- Trumpeter and songwriter. He served as musical director to Ray Charles in the early-1950s, but left the band because he could not abide the rampant drug use of Charles and most of his band mates. Thus, Richard became a high school music teacher in his hometown of Thibodaux, Louisiana, and later in White Plains, New York.
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