Thank you for visiting my website. I am Johnston Richard and I’m pleased to make your acquaintance. I’m a proponent of faith and I firmly believe that nothing ever happens by chance and that everything has a reason, and a season under the sun. So, thank you once again for checkin’ in. Having said that let me share with you as to how it all began. When I was barely 3 years old, there was a spiritual convention held in our hometown, a serene and a beautiful place where gold was mined in those days. I remember my dad saying that after the convention I pointed at a man, who had obviously played the guitar at the service, carrying his guitar in his guitar case saying that I wanted that guitar. Just at the same time, Joshua Daniel, a mighty man of God and an international preacher, who had been praying for people who were standing in line to be prayed over for, saw the commotion, stopped dead on his track, approached the little boy, me, and told my dad in a prophetic moment saying, “When this boy gets to be a man, he will play the guitar for the Lord.” These words were etched in my memory as I grew up; but, nothing significant ever happened until a few years. An aunt of mine who was working in the middle-east was supposed to present me with a trumpet; my dad was supposed to present me an electronic keyboard; neither of which had happened until one afternoon, a delivery boy came home with pamphlets advertising about a guitar course being held that summer in our neighborhood. “Was the prophesy getting fulfilled in my life?” I wondered. Being an 8-year old, the youngest in the class, I was mostly neglected. At the end of the course, I had acquired nothing but a guitar worth $6 and just a couple of chords. My earliest recollection as a young boy, growing up in a pleasant town, was to become a missionary - to carry the good news of the gospel, of hope and courage. Little did I know that this would manifest itself in a way far different than what I had imagined. Barely into my teens, I got the gift of playing with words and I started writing poetry at the age of 13. I started writing poems of love, courage, humanity, hope and peace. O! How I longed to wed my poetry to music. One balmy evening when I was 16, I cried as I washed my face asking God to give me the gift of writing songs; hardly a couple of hours from the time I had prayed, I received the answer to my prayer for I wrote my first song Never go wrong - The prophesy was fulfilled. Now looking back over the decade, a long haul and the long wait with over 180 songs added to my repertoire of singing and songwriting, all that I can say is this: God is faithful! The big book is foundational and is fundamental; it is the pivotal point on which rests the fulcrum of my music. I have found it fulfilling and deeply satisfying to heavily draw inspiration and thematic references from the ‘wells of the scriptures’ for my lyrics. The music? Well, it comes from heaven like all gifts do. To cut a long story short, No Strings Attached is my first album. It is my desire that this album will help heal, restore, inspire and encourage you as you listen to it. You can read about the album in an article in my website entitled The Making of ‘No Strings Attached.’ Be blessed! May your joys be multiplied. I pray the heavenly Father that you will be able to live the life abundant - a gift that comes absolutely free for it comes with No Strings attached to it. God Bless!