Richard Bivens is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on August 26, 1979 in Downey, California, United States. Richard Bivens, born August 26, 1979 in Orange County, California is an American musician. He has been a solo performer and the frontman of Richard Bivens & Foreign Press Regrets and Brunettes and Grief Thief. He currently lives in Oakland, California.
Bivens started to work on new material shortly after Foreign Press. After he had a rehearsal of the songs with Kato and Pavlovich, he realized that he wanted another project. They settled on Regrets and Brunettes and quickly returned to the live music scene. The band auditioned many musicians, including keyboardists, before settling on Regrets and Brunettes as their name. They then added guitarist Anthony Chu to the lineup in Spring 2008. The band’s songwriting and musicianship were elevated by Chu.
Although the band achieved mild success with the album and played shows with the likes of Delta Spirit, The Henry Clay People, and Pepper Rabbit they found it hard to balance lives as musicians and lives as professionals. Pavlovich gained more responsibility becoming a father and Chu became a full-time medical student. The difficulties in scheduling time for the band caused enough friction that the band broke up officially in August 2010. They posthumously released their final song called “Facts & Figures.”
Bivens relocated to Oakland, California in 2012 to begin work on his debut solo album with Absolute Beginners producer Tony Leong. Over the next couple of years, dozens of tracks were recorded with an assorted cast of Bay Area musicians, including members of The Matches, Facing New York, Con Brio, Tumbleweed Wanderers and The Soft White Sixties. Although more than an album’s worth of material was compiled, Bivens and Leong scrapped many of the recordings and left others to die in their infancy.
The band played a number of gigs around Orange County, Los Angeles and San Diego until it was disbanded in late 2007.
