Richard Alexander Ross[1] (born 22 December 1957) is a Scottish musician who is the lead singer of the rock band Deacon Blue.

In February 2021, they released their eleventh studio album entitled Riding on the Tide of Love to commercial success in both the UK and their native Scotland.

[5] Before the formation of Deacon Blue, he released a solo album So Long Ago, on the Glasgow independent label Sticky Records.

After Deacon Blue's reunion in 1999 and the release of their Walking Back Home and Homesick albums, Ross entered into a new publishing deal with Warner Chappell UK, and released another solo album, This Is the Life, through Chrysalis Records's short-lived Papillion label, in 2002.

To date he has written for and with James Blunt, Ronan Keating, KT Tunstall, David Sneddon, Cathy Burton, Gareth Gates, Emma Bunton, Will Young and Jamie Cullum among others.

In September 2009 Ross and McIntosh released The Great Lakes, an album on the Cooking Vinyl label.

[citation needed] Ross released a collection of songs in 2013, the 12-track Trouble Came Looking, on the Edsel Recordings label.

He also performed a wide-ranging UK acoustic tour in support of the album which saw him play small, intimate venues, alongside Gregor Philp.