May 19, 2021
Rich Scripps, a company driver for Grassmid Transport, has been selected as one of 10 semi-finalists in the
Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search competition. He submitted his cover of the Hawaiian Christmas song, “Mele Kalikimaka,” which he says he posted “for friends for Christmas ‘from the road.’”
Scripps, 61, of Spring Lake, Michigan, has been singing since the mid-1980s. He says he started as a drummer, then moved to Beaver Island, Michigan, where he started learning how to play keyboard. He says when he got divorced 20 years ago, he went though a tough period, which is when he composed his first songs.
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