Ariana Richards

In 1993, Richards released the album First Love on the Pony Canyon label in Japan. The album was a mix between teen-pop and dance friendly ballads of the early 1990s. There was also a single released in very small volume. Ariana and her mother wrote the words to the track "You're the Reason".

Ariana returned briefly to the world of music in 2009, recording a cover version of David Foster's "The Prayer" in a duet with Chris M. Allport, whom she has known since a young age.

Richards has become a successful artist. Her paintings, usually of landscapes and figures, tend to be in the style of the impressionists. In October 2005, she won first place in the National Professional Oil Painting Competition (sponsored by American Artist Magazine) for the painting Lady of the Dahlias.

She currently resides in Salem, Oregon and is apprenticing under a professional painter. Read Less