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Richard Marx
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American singer and songwriter
OverviewAI-generated
Richard Noel Marx is an American musician, songwriter, and composer born on September 16, 1963, in Chicago. He performs as a tenor singer and plays the guitar and piano. His musical work falls within the pop, pop rock, and soft rock genres. Marx has been active in the music industry since 1980 and is affiliated with Capitol Records. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Marx has released various collections, including the *Richard Marx Collection* and *Greatest Hits (Songbook)*. He has also authored works such as *Stories to Tell*. His discography includes the songbook *E-z Play Today #185 - The Best Of Richard Marx*. Marx has been married to Cynthia Rhodes and Daisy Fuentes. He is the son of Dick Marx.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Untersuchungen über die Leistungsfähigkeit von Studenten im Textleseverständnis
- Richard Marx - Greatest Hits (Songbook)
- Stories to Tell
- Richard Marx Collection
- E-z Play Today #185 - The Best Of Richard Marx
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for
- Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart — Self2026
- John Farnham: Finding the Voice — Self2023
- Tamron Hall — Self - Guest2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self - Guest2019
- Drop the Mic — Self2017
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee — Self2016
- Life in Pieces — Buddy Daiquiri2015
- Back in the Day — Neighbor2014
- Heart and Friends - Home For The Holidays2014
- The Goldbergs — Richard Marx2013
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1963
Discography
- Don't Mean Nothing1987
- Richard Marx1987
- Should've Known Better1987
- Endless Summer Nights1988
- Angelia1989
- Repeat Offender1989
- Repeat Offender1989
- Right Here Waiting1989
- Satisfied1989
- Too Late To Say Goodbye1989
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 797,071
- Total plays
- 7,665,222
Tags
Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is a singer-songwriter best known for his adult contemporary music. He had a string of successful hit singles in the late 80s and early 90s such as "Right Here Waiting," "Hazard," and "Hold on to the Nights." Although most of his successful songs are slow ballads like these, many of his songs have an upbeat, classic rock style, examples being "Don't Mean Nothing," "Should've Known Better," "Satisfied," and "Wait for the Sunrise". <
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 34
- Cited by
- 2,332
Research areas
Most cited works
- Randomized Clinical Trial of an Implantable Drug Delivery System Compared With Comprehensive Medical Management for Refractory Cancer Pain: Impact on Pain, Drug-Related Toxicity, and Survival2002 · 715 cit
- Prevention and Management of Intrathecal Drug Delivery and Spinal Cord Stimulation System Infections2004 · 228 cit
- An implantable drug delivery system (IDDS) for refractory cancer pain provides sustained pain control, less drug-related toxicity, and possibly better survival compared with comprehensive medical management (CMM)2005 · 189 cit
- Intrathecal drug delivery for the management of cancer pain: a multidisciplinary consensus of best clinical practices.2006 · 139 cit
- μ-Opioid Receptor Gene A118G Polymorphism Predicts Survival in Patients with Breast Cancer2012 · 130 cit
via OpenAlex · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,369x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,247x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,657x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,271x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,600x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Richard Noel Marx , ( 1963-09-16 ) September 16, 1963 (age 62) , Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
- Origin
- Highland Park, Illinois , U.S.
- Genres
- Pop soft rock adult contemporary pop rock
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals piano guitar
- Years active
- 1968–present
- Labels
- Capitol EMI Manhattan Signal 21 Zanzibar Frontiers Kobalt Label Services
- Spouse s
- Cynthia Rhodes ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2014 ) , Daisy Fuentes ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 )
- Website
- richardmarx .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
Marx's first number one success as a songwriter came in 1984 with "What About Me?", which was recorded by Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, and James Ingram, and topped the US and Canadian Adult Contemporary charts. His second chart-topper was 1985's "Crazy", a song he co-wrote with Rogers which reached number one in the Hot Country Songs chart. Marx's self-titled debut album went triple-platinum in 1987, and his first single, "Don't Mean Nothing", reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Between 1987 and 1994, he had 14 top 20 hits, including three number one singles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Marx” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.