Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield is one of those guys who never quite gets the credit he deserves — people remember "Jessie's Girl" (and okay, fair, it's an absolute earworm that hit number one in 1981 and won him a Grammy) but they forget he's a legit singer-songwriter who wrote his own material, played his own instruments, and kept putting out records decade after decade while plenty of his New Wave contemporaries faded away. The fact that this Sydney kid crossed the Pacific, cracked the American market wide open, and eventually earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame says everything about the grind behind the charm. Add in a sideline acting career — most memorably as Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital — and you've got a guy who refused to be pigeonholed. He's cheesy in the best possible way, and I mean that as genuine praise.

Name (English)

Rick Springfield

Name (Japanese)

リック・スプリングフィールド

Reading

りっく・すぷりんぐふぃーるど

Born

August 23, 1949 (age 76)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

Origin

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Occupation

musician / singer-songwriter / singer / composer / film actor

High school

Ashwood High School

University

Mckinnon Secondary College

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.rickspringfield.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rickspringfield/
• Xhttps://x.com/rickspringfield
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89

Tags

• New South Wales
• musician
• singer-songwriter
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.