身兼歌手/创作/吉他手/演员的Rick Springfield于70年代初期组成ZOOT合唱团在家乡澳洲相当首欢迎。1972年单飞。有着帅气面孔的Rick Springfield也获得过不少影片演出的机会，在1981年畅销影片《General Hospital/综合医院》饰演Noah Drake医生角色才成为家喻户晓的的电视小生。并且他的专集也经常达到多白金的销售量。 在1981年Rick Springfield 凭借一首单曲荣获格莱美单曲奖。1983年的专集《Living In Oz》收录了Top 10单曲Affair Of The Heart，亦再度获得格莱美奖“最佳摇滚男歌手”的提名。Rick Springfield 已经拥有5首Top 10、累计17首Top 40单曲的成就，专辑也缔造出1千8百万张的销售 。 Richard Lewis Springthorpe, known professionally as Rick Springfield, is an Australian-American musician and actor. He was a member of the pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971, then started his solo career with his debut single, "Speak to the Sky", which reached the top 10 in Australia in mid-1972. When he moved to the United States, he had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the US, for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. He followed with four more top 10 US hits: "I've Done Everything for You", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair of the Heart" and "Love Somebody". Springfield's two US top 10 albums are Working Class Dog and Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet.