Richard Marx Biography

Fast Facts

• Parents worked in the field of commercial jingles: His father was a composer and his mother was a singer
• Sang backup on the Lionel Richie hits "All Night Long" and "Running With the Night
• " Met his wife Cynthia Rhodes while writing a song for her film Staying Alive (1983); has also contributed music to the sound tracks for St
• Elmo's Fire (1985), The Goonies (1985) and Tequila Sunrise (1988)
• To promote his 1991 album, Rush Street, he performed five concerts in a 24-hour period, starting in Baltimore and finishing in Los Angeles
• Wrote and produced the 2000 'N Sync hit "This I Promise You
• " Wrote Keith Urban's 2011 country hit "Long Hot Summer," which gave Marx a run of four consecutive decades in which tunes Marx wrote or cowrote were chart-toppers
• Was music producer for short-lived series The Playboy Club
• Sang "The Star -Spangled Banner" at the 2011 Auto Club 400