MsG*s LoungeChat w/Dr. Richard Hartley, Int'l. Recording Artist, Music Training

About our Guest

Richard Hartley is a New York-based pastor, singer, arranger, songwriter, actor and musical director who has spent much of his career helping other major artists sound their best. 

Starting as youth in New York, Richard began singing at the age of four in the Church of God in Christ and grew up to be one of the premier choir directors in New York City. After being selected for a role in Vy Higgensen's "Mama I Want To Sing" he went on to hold several principal roles in this hit musical, touring in over twenty countries with this production and appearing on many cast recordings. He appears in two Mariah Carey videos and has performed on The Grammy Awards show, Late Night With David Letterman, Show Time At The Apollo, Soul Train, The Rosie Odonnell Show,The Soul Train Music Awards, Donnie and Marie and The Oprah Winfrey show!

Richard has travelled and performed in London, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, West Africa, Australia, China, Turkey, Russia, Paris, Ghana, Senegal, all through the caribbean, Greece, Vienna and japan over 100 times, performing for a decade in Tokyo Disenyland to over 20,000 people!

Richard Hartley has appeared at The Apollo theater, Madison Square Garden, City Hall, The Beacon Theater, Lincoln Center And several appearances at Carnegie Hall.

For the past 14 years Rev Richard Hartley has served as Pastor and co-founder of HAVEN INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES in Rockaway New York,which began in the private home of our co founder Shepherd Mother Naomi Hartley!  

Richard Hartley earned a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Brooklyn College in 1983 and continued there for his graduate studies in counseling. Rev. Hartley enrolled and received his Bachelors and Masters in theology and also received his Doctorate in Divinity in May of 2014 from the Mason Kelly Washington Religious Institute,in Freeport NY!