Richard Noel Marx Summary

Biography of Richard Marx Richard Noel Marx was born on September 16, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and recording producer. He has a commercial jingle-writing father (Dick Marx) and a jingle-singing mother (Ruth). He is the only child of Ruth, and he has three half-siblings from his father’s previous marriage. His father died on August 1997. He began recording jingles himself at the age of five, and as a teenager Marx wrote his own songs. When he was 18, Marx managed, through a series of acquaintances in the music industry, to get a demo he had recorded to singer Lionel Richie. At Richie’s urging, Marx moved to Los Angeles, and beginning in 1980, he worked as a background