Richard Schletty is a performing songwriter from St. Paul's West Side where he and his wife Pat raised seven kids. Grandkids now number eight.
Schletty is an experienced cantor, songleader and choral singer. He sang at Masses, funerals and weddings for many years at St. Matthew's Catholic Church on Saint Paul's West Side. and St. Mary's Catholic Church in downtown St. Paul. He currently leads music (solo with guitar or with a keyboard accompanist) at St. Stanislaus, St. Francis de Sales and Blessed Sacrament churches.
Richard sang with Waltham Abbey Singers, a local Renaissance-Baroque choir which performed sacred music a cappella. Director: Brian Link.
Richard has done gigs in local coffee shops, singing his own Folk-Rock originals. As a member of the Minnesota Association of Songwriters, the Minnesota Association of Christian Songwriters and the Catholic Association of Music, he is striving to improve the form and content of his songwriting and the resonance of his solo public performances of Folk-Rock and Praise music.
A major opus called "Hungry For Heaven" is in formation with excellent composer, guitarist and synth instrumentalist David Gómez Sanz, who lives in Spain.
Schletty uses his Macintosh computer to tap into collaborators via email, music sharing web sites and FTP file transfer. His favored program for digital recording, sequencing and mixing is Apple Logic Studio.
Richard's college buddies from St. John's U in Collegeville, MN, formed a band in the early 70s called Rocka-Rolla, performing early rock classics.