Rick Springfield

In a long and winding road of a career, Rick Springfield has gone from being a teen sensation in the eighties to becoming a well-travelled professional - garnering a GRAMMY Award and selling nearly 20 million recordings along the way (including 17 Top 40 and 5 Top 10 Hits), while also appearing in a number of noted acting roles. In 1972, following his first Top 20 hit, "Speak To The Sky", Rick moved from Australia to the U.S. Although rumors of a payola scandal plagued his early music career, he did star as himself in an ABC Saturday morning cartoon series Mission: Magic! - in which, during each episode, he usually performed an original song. By the late-seventies, Rick was concentrating predominantly on his acting career, guest starring on a number of prime-time television shows.

By the early-eighties, during and after a run on General Hospital as Dr. Noah Drake, Rick had returned to music with a string of platinum albums. However, by the late-eighties success faded as family and personal problems took center stage. Over the next decade he surfaced occasionally with either new acting projects or music. Then, he combined them both and resurrected his career on stage - in 1995, appearing as a member of the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-nominated musical Smokey Joe's Café; and from 200-2002, performing in EFX Alive! at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Recently, Rick is having another run of renewed success in both his music and acting careers. In 2005, after a 23-year absence, he was welcomed back to General Hospital to reprise his recurring role as Dr. Noah Drake. In 2008, he released his first successful album in over twenty years, Venus In Overdrive, which rose to #28 on the U.S. charts. And, in 2009, on Showtime's hit series, Californication, he had a recurring role as what he called a "twisted version of himself", a "hedonistic Rick Springfield" from the early days.