27 Facts About Richard Marx

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Richard Noel Marx was born on September 16,1963 and is an American adult contemporary and pop rock singer-songwriter.

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Richard Marx is the only male artist in history to have his first seven singles reach the top 5 of the Billboard charts.

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Richard Marx has written or collaborated on songs with other artists, including "This I Promise You" by NSYNC and "Dance with My Father" by Luther Vandross.

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Richard Marx has three half-siblings from his father's previous marriage.

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Richard Marx was 17 and living in Highland Park, Illinois when a tape of his songs ended up in the hands of Lionel Richie.

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Richard Marx said one of the first musicians he met in Los Angeles was Fee Waybill of The Tubes with whom he has collaborated at least 30 times.

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Richard Marx called Waybill "my life-long best friend" and said Waybill is godfather to his children.

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Richard Marx's self-titled debut album, released in June 1987, yielded four hit singles and went triple platinum.

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Richard Marx became the first new artist played on 117 radio stations nationwide during his initial week on the charts.

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Richard Marx performed the Beatles' "Help" at the Berlin Wall in late 1989.

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In 1991, Richard Marx released his third consecutive platinum album Rush Street.

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In early 1994, as he and his family permanently left Los Angeles behind and returned to Chicago, Richard Marx released Paid Vacation, and scored his fourth consecutive platinum album.

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In 2000, Richard Marx debuted his sixth studio album, titled Days in Avalon.

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In 2008, Richard Marx released Duo, on which he collaborated with Vertical Horizon's lead singer Matt Scannell.

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In Episode 102 of the first season, Richard Marx appeared along with Kenny Loggins, Nathan Lee, and rock band Three Doors Down.

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On December 6,2008, Richard Marx headlined a fundraiser for cystic fibrosis research, "Newsapalooza", sponsored by WLS-AM's Roe Conn program, in which Richard Marx both performed several of his hits with his band and accompanied Chicago broadcast news reporters and anchors covering rock hits.

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Richard Marx played piano on the song "Here" and produced Matt Scannell's vocals on two tracks for Vertical Horizon's 2009 album, entitled Burning the Days.

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In March 2010, Richard Marx released Stories To Tell, his first fully acoustic album.

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On May 3,2011, Richard Marx was invited onto the stage at the Curran Theater in San Francisco by Hugh Jackman.

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Jackman and Richard Marx sang "Right Here Waiting" together, with Richard Marx changing the lyrics of the last chorus to "right here waiting for Hugh".

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On November 1,2011, Richard Marx released The Christmas EP, a five-song collection of Christmas songs.

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In October 2012, Richard Marx followed up The Christmas EP with a full album of holiday tracks that he called Christmas Spirit.

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On July 8,2014, Richard Marx released his eleventh studio album, Beautiful Goodbye.

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Richard Marx appears as himself in the 200th episode of The Goldbergs, "The Wedding" which aired in March 2022.

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On January 8,1989, Richard Marx married singer, dancer, and actress Cynthia Rhodes, who appeared in Staying Alive, Flashdance, and Dirty Dancing.

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26.

On December 23,2015, Richard Marx married entrepreneur and former MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes in Aspen, Colorado, as confirmed on his official Facebook page.

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On December 21,2016, it was reported that Richard Marx helped Korean Air flight attendants pacify an unruly, possibly intoxicated passenger while he and his wife were aboard a flight bound from Hanoi to Seoul, even providing photographic evidence of the incident.