Richard Noel Marx, who was born on September 16, 1963, is an American singer-songwriter and has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. His second number one song was “Crazy” from 1985, which he co-wrote with Kenny Rogers and attained the top spot on the Hot Country Songs chart. His self-titled debut album was certified triple-platinum in 1987 and his first single, “Don’t Mean Nothing”, made it to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
From 1987 through to 1994 he had 14 hits that entered the top 20, including three number one singles. Marx is the only man in history whose first seven singles have reached the top 5 of the Billboard charts. He has achieved a total of 14 number one singles, both as a performer and as a songwriter and producer. Among his songs as a singer that have reached number one are “Hazard”, “Right Here Waiting”, “Hold On to the Nights”, “Endless Summer Nights”, and “Satisfied”.
As Billboard states, Marx “holds the distinction of having written songs that have reached No. 1 on various Billboard charts in each of the last four decades”. He has written songs or worked on them with other artists, such as NSYNC’s “This I Promise You” and Luther Vandross’s “Dance with My Father”, and has received five Grammy Award nominations, winning the Song of the Year award for “Dance with My Father”.
Profile Summary CategoryInformation Full NameRichard Noel Marx BornSeptember 16, 1963 (age 63) BirthplaceChicago, Illinois, U.S. OriginHighland Park, Illinois, U.S. GenresPop; Soft rock; Adult contemporary; Pop rock OccupationsSinger; Songwriter InstrumentsVocals; Piano; Guitar Years Active1968–Present LabelsCapitol; EMI; Manhattan; Signal 21; Zanzibar; Frontiers; Kobalt Label Services SpousesCynthia Rhodes (married 1989; divorced 2014); Daisy Fuentes (married 2015) Websiterichardmarx.com Age Richard Noel Marx was born on September 16, 1963 he is now 63 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Biography Marx was the only child of Ruth (born Guildoo) and Dick Marx, who was a jazz musician and set up a jingle company in the early 1960s; his father had German-Jewish roots. He went to the North Shore Country Day School and has three half-siblings from his father’s first marriage. Career Highlights Chart Success: He is the first male artist to have his first seven consecutive singles reach the Top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Among its most well-known songs are “Right Here Waiting”, “Hazard”, “Hold On to the Nights”, and “Satisfied”. In terms of songwriting and production he has sold more than 30 million albums globally and won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2004 for co-writing Luther Vandross’s “Dance with My Father”; he also had number one songs during four different decades. Collaborations Marx provided backing vocals on the Chicago 17 album by the band Chicago for the song “We Can Stop the Hurtin'”.
1985 – Marx, along with Robert Lamm and David Foster, co-wrote the Chicago track “Good for Nothing” for the We Are the World album, and provided backing vocals. This was also the final recording with Peter Cetera with Chicago. 1988 – Marx co-wrote (with Fee Waybill) and played keyboards on “Edge of a Broken Heart”, Vixen’s first single from their debut album. 1993 – Marx played piano on John Farnham’s 1993 song “The Reason Why”.
1997 – Marx recorded “At the Beginning” with Donna Lewis for the 1997 film Anastasia. 1997 – Marx recorded “Surrender to Me” with Lara Fabian for the 1997 album Flesh and Bones International Ed. 1999 – Marx built “Renegade Studios”, a state of the art recording facility located in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Artists such as Philip Sayce, Keith Urban, and Emerson Drive have recorded material at this location.
2000 – Marx wrote and produced “This I Promise You”, a single by NSYNC. 2002 – Marx collaborated with Mexican singer Paulina Rubio on her sixth studio album and first English debut album, writing the song titled “Border Girl” which led to the album’s name titled Border Girl. 2006 – During summer 2006, Marx toured with Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band. Other members of that year’s All Starr Band included Edgar Winter, Sheila E, and Billy Squier.
2006 – Marx appeared on the Fox network’s TV show Celebrity Duets in September 2006. Other singers to take part in the series included Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Cyndi Lauper, Kenny Loggins, Patti LaBelle, Randy Travis, Jesse McCartney, and Gladys Knight. Personal life Marx got married to Cynthia Rhodes on January 8, 1989; Rhodes was a dancer and had appeared in the films Staying Alive, Flashdance and Dirty Dancing, as well as being the female lead in Marx’s first video, “Don’t Mean Nothing”.
The two had three sons together and in April 2014 they announced that they were divorcing. Marx got married to the Cuban-American actress Daisy Fuentes on 23 December 2015 in Aspen, Colorado. It was reported on December 21, 2016 that Marx had assisted some Korean Air flight attendants in restraining an unruly and possibly intoxicated passenger who was disturbing both the staff and the passengers while Marx and his wife were on a flight travelling from Hanoi to Seoul.
Marx supplied photographic proof of the incident through social media and also criticised the way the airline had handled the matter. In reply, Korean Air neither addressed Marx’s specific allegations nor said that the airline would take a more assertive approach in similar situations in the future. Net Worth Richard Marx’s net worth is estimated to be between $25 million and $60 million.
