Richard Marx

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 artist, but he has some collaborations with artist like NSYNC with the song “This I Promise You”, and Luther Vandross, 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 Philip Sayce, Keith Urban, and Emerson Drive picked for their recordings.

In 1989, Marx got married to the actress, dancer, and singer Cynthia Rhodes. She sung and acted in “Staying Alive”, in “Flashdance”, and “Dirty dancing”. Cynthia 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 Jesse, born in 1994. Cynthia 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 Katie Couric 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 Cynthia 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 Daisy Fuentes.

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”.