Richard Freitag
About Richard
Richard Freitag is a singer/songwriter born and raised in Hillsdale, New Jersey. Having played guitar/mandolin in bands for most of his adult life and doing some songwriting on the side he decided to polish up some of his original songs and make a CD. Thanks to the support of local musicians/friends he was able to accomplish this goal. “Driving up to Doug O’Conner’s (Producer/Engineer) studio in Highland Mills New York to lay down tracks was really fun and a great experience. I got to complete my first CD thanks to Doug and this group of very talented musicians".
Richard was given his first guitar by his parents when he was 10 years old. “I was given a nylon string guitar and was immediately drawn to it. Later that week while listening to Led Zeppelin attempting to play along with Jimmy Page I realized that playing an instrument would take time and patience, I took lessons at the Valley Music Center in Hillsdale shortly thereafter. It was about a year later before I was able to play anything coherent. My teacher charted out the chords to “Strawberry Fields” by The Beatles. I practiced it over and over until I realized it was starting to sound like a song. I was so excited and officially hooked from that moment on.”