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Rick Guard is an English singer-songwriter who released his debut album, ''Hands of a Giant'', in 2002.


Career

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. The pair have also written popular theme music for English, Australian and Polish TV shows. They also have a song included on a best-selling
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Appearances

Guard's gigging career so far includes performances in England for
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, OK Magazine,
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, the V2 summer festival, Children In Need with the
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, The Royal Festival Hall, Sky One TV, Granada TV, The Box video channel,
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, Radio 2, Cardiff Red Dragon festival, Feel the Noise Festival Liverpool and other live public, corporate and private events and Manchester 235. Guard has received radio play on the majority of the independent,
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and national radio stations, and particularly extensive airplay in Europe. Guard received the prestigious Belgian Zommerhit award. At the end of 2003, Guard's first single "Stop it I Like It" was in the top 75 of highest radio played records in the world chart. Guard has also gigged live events and TV in South Africa, France, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Egypt, Spain, Holland and Ireland working with artists such as
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. He has played to TV audiences of four million and stadiums of up to 65,000 people.


Discography


Albums


Charting singles


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guard, Rick Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English male singer-songwriters People from Salford