Jonathan Richman has been writing songs, making records, and playing live for most of his life, winning fans and making friends around the world with his guileless honesty and playfully catchy compositions. He is revered by countless fellow artists, and has built a remarkably loyal international audience through his touring. His deceptively straightforward songs embody timesless qualities of humanity, optimism, emotional insight and a boundless sense of humor, untainted by cynicism or transient notions of hipness.

A Little History  In the early '70s, Richman founded the influential proto-punk band the Modern Lovers whose self-titled debut featured favorites "Roadrunner" and "Pablo Picasso." An acoustic Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers scored a European hit with the 1977 instrumental "Egyptian Reggae." Richman then went solo and critically acclaimed pop records followed, as did idiosyncratic excursions into country and Latin music.