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<a href="/biography/richard-marx">Richard Noel Marx</a> was born on September 16,1963 in Chicago, Illinois, from Ruth, a former singer, and <a href="/biography/richard-marx">Dick Marx</a>, a <a href="/biography/richard-marx">jazz musician</a>. He is a <a href="/biography/richard-marx">record producer</a>, musician, song writer, and pop/rock singer. As a recorder, he has already more than 30 million of single records, with many successful single hits in the late ‘80s and ‘90s. Even if some of his well-known songs are ballads, he wrote many songs with a classic rock style: “Satisfied”, “Should’ve Known Better”, and “Don’t Mean Nothing” are just some examples.

Marx began his singing career when he was 5, singing the jingles written by his father for his advertising company. Some of the famous jingles advertised by <a href="/biography/richard-marx">Dick Marx</a> are the ones for “Arm and Hammer”, “Ken-L Ration”, and “Nestle Crunch”. One of Marx’s tapes reached <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Richie">Lionel Richie</a> when Richard was 17: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Richie">Lionel</a>, having seen a lot of potential in the young singer, suggested him to move to Los Angeles. So Richard completed his studies graduating from North Shore Country Day School, and moved to L.A., where he got to finally met <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Richie">Lionel Richie</a>.

Initially he sang backing vocals for various artists. In 1984 he was singing for <a href="/biography/kenny-rogers">Kenny Rogers</a>, and when he got a chance to show his talent, since <a href="/biography/kenny-rogers">Kenny</a> was looking for some new songs, he prepared in few days the demo of the song “Crazy”, that later became a huge success. Marx had to knock many doors before he finally found someone ready to invest in his talent, but in 1987 he finally got a contract with the EMI/Manhattan Records. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lundvall">Bruce Lundvall</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lundvall">president</a> of EMI, clearly understood that Marx had the potential to become a “big”, and left him free to write and sing whatever he wanted. Marx contacted some very talented musicians, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_Waybill">Fee Waybill</a> (front man of “The Tubes”), <a href="/biography/joe-walsh">Joe Walsh</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Meisner">Randy Meisner</a> of the “Eagles”: in short time they produced a ten-track album that opened for them a very successful career. The self-titled first album “Richard Marx” yield four hit singles, and sold more than 4 million copies. “Repeat Offender” was the second album, and it sold over 5 million copies. “Rush Street” was the third album, and it involved <a href="/biography/billy-joel">Billy Joel</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Vandross">Luther Vandross</a> as the backing vocalists and pianists. The other albums he recorded are “Paid Vacation”, “Flesh and Bone”, “Greatest Hits”, “Days in Avalon”, “My Own Best Enemy”, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duo_(Richard_Marx_and_Matt_Scannell_album)">Duo</a>”, “Emotional  Remains and Sundown”, “Stories To Tell”, “The Christmas EP”, “Christmas Spirit” and “Beautiful Goodbye”.

During his long career, Marx collaborated with many famous artist: one of his first “important” collaboration has been in 1997, when he sang with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Lewis">Donna Lewis</a> in the song “At the Beginning”. In 2002 Marx collaborated with <a href="/biography/paulina-rubio">Paulina Rubio</a>, writing the song “Border Girl”. During Summer 2006, Marx went on tour with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr_&_His_All-Starr_Band">Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band</a>, with other artists like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Winter">Edgar Winter</a>, <a href="/biography/sheila-e">Sheila E</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier">Billy Squier</a>.

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In 2006 Marx appeared on the Fox network's TV show Celebrity Duets in September 2006. Some of the other singers that participated in the series are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Robinson">Smokey Robinson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_Warwick">Dionne Warwick</a>, <a href="/biography/cyndi-lauper">Cyndi Lauper</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Loggins">Kenny Loggins</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_LaBelle">Patti LaBelle</a>, <a href="/biography/randy-travis">Randy Travis</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_McCartney">Jesse McCartney</a>, and <a href="/biography/gladys-knight">Gladys Knight</a>.

Marx reached the records’ book after entering in the Top 5 at the Billboard Hot singles when the first seven singles he produced as solo artist. He’s mainly a solo <a href="/biography/richard-marx">artist</a>, but he has some collaborations with artist like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSYNC">NSYNC</a> with the song “This I Promise You”, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Vandross">Luther Vandross</a>, with the song “Dance With My Father”, song that won many Grammy Awards.

In 1999 Marx built the “Renegade Studios”, a recording facility located in Chicago that artists like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sayce">Philip Sayce</a>, <a href="/biography/keith-urban">Keith Urban</a>, and Emerson Drive picked for their recordings.

In 1989, Marx got married to the actress, dancer, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Rhodes">singer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Rhodes">Cynthia Rhodes</a>. She sung and acted in “Staying Alive”, in “Flashdance”, and “Dirty dancing”. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Rhodes">Cynthia</a> also appeared in her husband’s video “Don’t Mean Nothing”. She sang as the lead in a synth pop band called “Animation” in the late 1980s.  They have 3 children together: Brandon, born in 1990, Lucas, born in 1992, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_McCartney">Jesse</a>, born in 1994. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Rhodes">Cynthia</a> was living in Chicago with their children, while her husband kept living in California. In 2014, after 25 years of marriage, they communicated their willing to divorce.

The first announcement about their divorce has been given during the “Katie Friday Show”. When <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Couric">Katie Couric</a> asked him how does it feel to get divorced, and the reasons behind this decision, he said “I wouldn’t discuss that with even some of my close friends. It’s really nobody’s business,” he said. “What I will say is that I had the great fortune and blessing to not only be married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Rhodes">Cynthia</a> for all those years, but to just share her company. There’s not a finer human being. I’m very grateful that we were together, had three amazing sons and I can’t say enough about what an amazing person she is and how lucky I was to share that time with her.” Anyway, one year after that, on December 23, 2015, Richard Marx married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Fuentes">Daisy Fuentes</a>. 
 
Is it also “funny” to notice how, after the divorce, Marx’s song changed from talking about lovers sharing an eternal love, to lovers sharing the “here and now”. Marx said “I’ve got a handful of songs that get used in a lot of weddings, they’re songs about forever and eternity and until the end of time. But I found these new songs to be more about sex and ‘What are you doing for the next few hours?’ as opposed to forever. That was really a fun place to write from – there’s something so mystifying about that dance that two people do, especially in the early goings of a potential relationship when you’re circling each other and figuring each other out.”

Richard Marx has been active since 1982. His net worth is 18 million dollars, and the songs that made him gain more money are “Hazard”, “Now and Forever”, “Right Here Waiting”, “Endless Summer Nights”.

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