Richard Muller (born September 6, 1961) is a Slovak singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. He is one of the most successful singers both in the Czech and Slovak Republics where he sold more than one million records. 　　He started as a music journalist. In the beginning of the 1980s, while studying the theory of drama and screenplay at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VMU), he started writing for the daily paper and the only specialized periodical at the time, Popular, and, later, for Gramorevue. As a journalist, in his own words, he could get close to the musicians he admired easier. His first song, Radio, was recorded with the Buriak Pavla Daněka band. The track was very successful in the music chart 5xp, which encouraged Müller to start a band with Martin Karva, it was called Banket. Their debut album, Bioelektrovízia (1986) was full of hits, including the immortal song written by Vao Patejdl – Po schodoch ("Up the Stairs")). Co-operation with Andrej eban produced and was very perceivable in the two succeeding albums Druhá doba! and Vpred. He has also made a very popular song with Daniel Junas in the '90's called Na Zlatch pieskoch v lete.