Richard Rudolph

Richard Rudolph (born Oct 27, 1946) is an American songwriter, musician, music publisher and producer. He was married to legendary singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton and co-wrote many of her songs including "Lovin' You," “Inside My Love, “ “Adventures In Paradise,” “Les Fleur” and "Memory Lane.”

Richard Rudolph started in the music business as a songwriter at Chicago’s legendary Chess Records in 1969. One of his first compositions to be recorded was the title song for Minnie Riperton’s debut solo album, “Come to My Garden.” This began a multi-song collaboration with Charles Stepney, the renowned producer of Earth, Wind and Fire fame. Together they wrote many songs for Ms. Riperton and The Rotary Connection.

Rudolph’s career as a record producer began when he and Stevie Wonder joined forces to produce Minnie Riperton’s million selling album, “Perfect Angel.” Included in this album was the song, “Lovin’ You,” written by Richard Rudolph & Minnie Riperton, which went on to become a #1 song around the world and has turned out to be one of the most performed songs of all time. He has written well over two hundred songs in the course of his songwriting career.

His many production and writing credits include songs and recordings by Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder, Teena Marie, The Manhattan Transfer, A Tribe Called Quest, Michael McDonald, Jermaine Jackson, The New Edition, 2Pac, Shanice Wilson, Michael Sembello, The Rotary Connection, The Temptations, Julian Lennon, Patti Austin, Timothy Schmidt of The Eagles, Chaka Khan, Lara Fabian, Nuyorican Soul, Kimiko Kasai, Dawn Robinson of En Vogue and many others.

Besides producing music for and music supervising several feature films such as Cocoon, Running Scared, Black Rain, Flatliners, Weekend At Bernie’s, The Black Dahlia, Virtuosity, Duets and many others, Rudolph has also overseen films for cable, mini series and movies made for television. He served as Executive Music Producer on the Whitney Houston film project, Whitney, for Lifetime Movies. Rudolph has also served as the exclusive music consultant to HBO Pictures and was President of Third Stone/Atlantic Records, a company he co-founded with partner (actor/producer) Michael Douglas. Rudolph’s various musical endeavors as a writer, producer, music supervisor and label executive have contributed to worldwide sales in excess of 30 million albums and countless song placements in film, television and commercials. He and Minnie Riperton (deceased July 12, 1979) had two children, son Marc and daughter Maya, a film and television actress, who first came to fame as a cast member on Saturday Night Live[2] and went on to star in films such as BRIDESMAIDS, Away We Go, The Way, Way Back, Idiocracy and many others.

He is currently married to designer Kimiko Kasai (m. Oct 20, 1990) and resides in Santa Monica and Tokyo, Japan.