Richard Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop rock singer-songwriter best known for his self-titled album that went triple-platinum in 1987. His biggest hit single is Right here Waiting that went #1 across the globe and got certified Platinum.
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Richard Marx Married Life & Kids
Richard Marx made performance appearance at the wedding of Erica (Hayley Orrantia) and Geoff (Sam Lerner) on the 200th episode of The Goldbergs, 'The Wedding'. Richard Marx made his appearance on the show as wedding singer.
Richard Marx has a beautiful Cuban-American television host, actress and comedian wife, Daisy Fuentes. They got married in 23 December 2015 in a snowy Aspen, Colorado and Richard had announced his marriage on Instagram writing that Daisy gave him the honor of becoming his wife.
His wife, Daisy, was previously married to Timothy Adams and engaged to British Matt Goss. Meanwhile, Richard Marx was also married to Dirty Dancing actress Cynthia Rhodes. They were married for 25 years and share three sons together named Brandon, 31, Lucas, 21 and Jesse, 20. Richard had only kind words for his ex-wife after their divorce in 2014. He talked with People sharing that he had nothing but love and respect for his ex-wife and he didn't want to delve that into his songwriting. So, when his album titled Beautiful Goodbye came out after his divorce many assumed it was about their breakup.
However, Richard moved on from his divorce and got married with model Daisy Fuentes in Aspen. They first started dating in 2013 and after two years they agreed to get committed to each other. They both were fresh out of their past relationship when they first met and took their time as friends before blossoming their romance.
Richard's children were also bonding with his then girlfriend, Daisy, so it made him fall for her more. Richard also talked about how one of his son gave Daisy credit for making him so happy and claimed that was a pretty heavy powerful thing to do.
The couple has maintained their marriage for over six years now and have supported in each other's work. Richard shared that the pandemic lockdown made him grateful for having time to spend with his family. His wife, Daisy Fuentes, was MTV's first Latina VJ and started her career as a weather girl for WNJU-TV and also co-hosted the Telemundo network's La Voz Kids. She has also acting credits in films like Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, Curdled and Loving.
Net Worth Of Richard Marx
Richard Marx has an estimated net worth of $25 million as an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Richard Marx has a musical family background as he is the only son of singer, composer and musician, Ruth. Richars started playing guitar and piano from his early age and sang in the jingle commercials of his father when he was only five years old.
He graduated from orth Shore Country Day School and moved to Los Angeles to sing in Richie's albums. He was a backing vocalist for Lionel Richie and got offered by singers like Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross and Madonna. His debut album was self-titled and had four hit singles like Don't Mean Nothing, Should've Known Better, Endless Summer Nights and Hold On To The Nights.
His other albums are Repeat Offender, Rush Street, Paid-Vacation, Flesh & Bone, Days in Avalon, My Own Best Enemy, Emotional Remains, Sundown and more. Some of his hit singles are Through My Veins, Emotional Remains, Until I Find You Again, Now and Forever, Satisfied, Right Here Waiting and so on.
He earned Grammy nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance-Male for his sonf, Don't Mean Nothing in 1988. He won four Grammy Awards in the year 2004 for co-writing album, Dance With My Father with Luther Vandross.