Richard Frasca, a Los Angeles native and son of a musician, started composing at fourteen, accompanying himself on guitar and piano. He formed the band "Village" at sixteen and began playing LA clubs a few years later.

Richard moved to San Francisco to study abstract expressionist painting, a talent he later employed to design his album covers.

After a brief stint of movie work, he resumed his music and developed a repertoire of 2000 original songs ranging from alternative rock, classic folk rock, experimental jazz, traditional blues, psychedelic progressive rock, to tender love ballads.

You can download mp3 versions of select songs here. You can read the lyrics to each mp3 song here.

Richard currently performs his songs in the LA area with his band Shemp.

He has recorded 100 finished albums with artwork. Over 60% are completely solo.