New Music Friday – Right The Stars

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Expressing the complexities of human emotions mixed with transcendent pop rhythms all his own is what singer/songwriter Rich Jacques does best through “Right The Stars,” the band name under which he records and performs. He grew up in Wisconsin, seeing California on TV and wondering why he was living in the freezing cold. In 2000, Jacques moved to Los Angeles and decided to take a break from music, only to end up right back with what he loves most but in a different form. He became a music teacher, taking on students young and old, one of which was Ben Affleck.

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Two years later, he returned to the stage with Chantal Kreviazuk, a singer/songwriter with whom he toured and opened for Jason Mraz and appeared in The Tonight Show and the Craig Kilborn Show. Eager to expand his relationship with music, he made the move to production in 2006 and has since collaborated with artists like Kina Grannis, Rob Giles and Joey Fatone in his Hollywood studio, The White Room. Today, Jacques produces music for artists as well as TV and film and is releasing a self-titled album as Right The Stars. The CD includes unpretentious tunes and totally relatable realizations (she could not be anybody different and I could never change the way I am, – “Let Go of Her Hand”) as well as heartbreaking personal confessions (and I don’t know the reason but then pleasin’ people’s all I really know, – “South Indian Monkey Trap”). His songs range from the deep and intricate “Making Deals with God” to the frustration of a relationship in “Time”, a title featured in the movie “The Break Up,” and the simple, playful and upbeat “We Got It All”, written for movie “Couples Retreat.”

Right The Stars songs have found their way onto a number of TV shows and movies. Recently, they were heard on “One Tree Hill” and will soon be heard in the new Brooke Shields and Brendan Frasier movie called “Furry Vengeance.” You can listen to the song “We Got It All” above.

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