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Richard Niles received his Degree in Composition from Boston’s Berklee College of Music (1975) where he studied with jazz greats Pat Metheny, Gary Burton, Michael Gibbs and Herb Pomeroy.

Returning to London in 1975, he signed to Essex Music as a writer. Expecting to become an overnight success as a songwriter and jazz composer, Richard accidentally became an overworked success as staff arranger/producer of songwriter demos for Essex and EMI Music.

Since then he has composed, arranged and produced music for some of the world’s most creative and successful artists.

Niles has arranged for great female stars Pet Clark, Cilla Black, Kim Wilde, Lulu, Randy Crawford, Anita Baker, Deniece Williams, Gloria Gaynor, Heather Small and Samantha Mumba and Kylie Minogue.

His pen has also gone to work with male stars as diverse as Cliff Richard, James Brown, Barry Manilow, Ray Charles, Stephen Gately, Ronan Keating, and contributed to hits for many generations of boy bands including Wet Wet Wet, ABC, Damage, O Town, OTT, Take That, Boyzone, and many number one hits by Westlife including their duet Against All Odds with Mariah Carey.