Rick Altizer


Rick Altizer, is an award winning film director, recording artist, music producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and radio show host.
Rick is the director of "Russ Taff: I Still Believe." The film has 9 awards from film festivals and is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime. Rick has also directed 3 award winning documentaries for Chonda Pierce. "Unashamed", "Enough" and "Laughing in the Dark".
A twice Dove nominated music producer, he has sold over one million albums. He has produced such artists as Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart and Russ Taff. As a recording artist, he recorded seven studio albums with three top 10 singles.
He currently is the worship leader at Hickory Grove PCA Church, in Nashville TN. He is married to his wife, Jan, and has two sons, David and Matthew, daughter-in-law, Laura and grandsons, Ryan and Caleb.
As a recording artist, Rick is an American Christian musician, who primarily plays a contemporary Christian music, Christian rock and worship style of music. He has released eight studio albums, Blue Plate Special in 1998, Neon Fixation in 1999, Go Nova in 2000, All Tie Zur in 2001, John Lennon's Glasses in 2002, Scripture Memory – Pop Symphonies in 2007, The Rise and Fall of $AM in 2010, and "Bread" in 2019 with KMG Records, True Tunes, Not Lame Recordings, and Fuseic.

Early life

Richard Bryan Altizer was born on August 13, in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Music career

His music recording career began in 1998 with the studio album Blue Plate Special released in 1998 with KMG Records. The second studio album Neon Fixation, was released in 1999 from KMG Records. He released Go Nova with True Tunes in 2000. His fourth studio album All Tie Zur was released in 2001 from Not Lame Recordings. The subsequent studio album John Lennon's Glasses was released in 2002. He released Scripture Memory – Pop Symphonies with Fuseic Music in 2007. The Rise and Fall of $AM was released in 2010 by Fuseic Music and "Bread" was released in 2019 by Fuseic Music.

Personal life

Altizer is married with two children, where they reside in Old Hickory, Tennessee.

Discography

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