Rich Wyman

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Rich Wyman (* in Allentown , Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter .

Wyman, who had classical piano lessons since childhood, attended the High School of Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, studied for a year at New York University, and then moved to the Manhattan School of Music . He then worked as a bicycle messenger and performed with his own band in New York.

During the summer holidays he traveled to music festivals and the like. a. to Park City / Utah. In 1990 he recorded his first album Just Might Made It in New York , which sold more than six thousand times at the 1991 Park City Summer Festival. It was here that guitarist Eddie Van Halen became aware of him. He recorded Wyman's second album Fatherless Child in 1993 .

With this album Wyman became known in Europe, especially in the Netherlands, where he mainly lived for the next six years and produced his third album ( Where We Stand ). He went on numerous tours, made appearances on radio and television and played in front of 300,000 listeners at Park Pop in The Hague.

At the closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics , Wyman and his band supported Alanis Morissette and Goo Goo Dolls . In 2004 he founded his own record label Auspicious Records . He has received six ASCAP awards.

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