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Marjorie Richards started writing songs in elementary school, playing the piano and then the guitar. In Junior High in New Jersey, Richards was part of a girls choir that performed at Carnegie Hall. In high school in the Seattle area, she sang in school performance choirs and she worked closely with Jim Valley of Paul Revere and The Raiders, who mentored her in songwriting and performing both as a part of a rock n' roll choir and through her first performances as a solo folk artist with Victory Music and other local venues. The choir made a recording that included a choral version of a song that Marjorie wrote.

She made her first record with Charlie Murphy, of the internationally acclaimed Rumors of the Big Wave. Murphy, of whom it has been said is "not bad company to keep," a mutli-recording artist and songwriter himself, produced Richards' debut CD, entitled, here, which received glowing reviews from industry publications like The Performing Songwriter Magazine and the Victory Music Review as well as a large number of radio stations across the United States. She co-founded the Cake Record label, was part of the Seattle Performing Songwriters coalition, and she has been a top-ten finalist in numerous songwriting competitions across the US.

Richards has opened for artists Lucy Kaplanksy, Catie Curtis, Carrie Newcomer, The Wyrd Sisters both as a solo artist and with Tamara Grunhurd and Jessica Papkhoff in a trio called The Meddlers. You can checkout her that been on several compilation CDs

In 2026, after a musical hiatus to focus on education, Marjorie is rested, fired up, and reclaiming her musical roots, and performing both solo as well as with Nancy Reinhold