Since 1987, Richard Marx has released 12 studio albums.

He also provides backing vocals for Barbra Streisand on her 1987 album One Voice. He plays guitar and provides backing vocals on two of American megadiva Whitney Houston’s biggest hits: Saving All My Love For You (#120) and Greatest Love Of All (#138). He played various instruments and provided backing vocals for many artists. Richard Marx’s session work was extensive in the ‘80s. Lionel Richie was so impressed that he called Richard Marx and told him that he thought he had the talent to make it big, and said, “I can't promise you anything, but you should come to L.A.” Of course, he seized that opportunity, met Lionel Richie in 1981, and worked for him as a studio musician, providing backing vocals on some of Lionel Richie’s biggest hits, including All Night Long (All Night) and You Are, songs #68 and #377, respectively, on this list of THE TOP 500 POP SONGS OF THE 1980S. At that time, Lionel Richie was still with funk/soul band The Commodores, but planning to embark on a solo career. In 1980, when he was 17 and living in Chicago, Illinois, he sent recordings of his original songs to American singer/songwriter Lionel Richie (who has seven songs on this list of THE TOP 500 POP SONGS OF THE 1980S). He began his musical career singing commercial jingles at the age of five. He plays guitar, keyboards, organ, piano, and bass guitar.

Richard Noel Marx is an American pop/rock singer, songwriter, and producer. The song was very personal and was not intended to go public. It was the fastest song I wrote, in barely 20 minutes. But my visa application was rejected, and when I came back, I wrote this song, which was more of a letter from me to her. We were not married then, and I wanted to meet her because I had not seen her for a few months. In 2010, he told The Indian Express, “I wrote the song for my wife Cynthia, who was in South Africa shooting for a film. Richard Marx wrote this song for his first wife, American actress Cynthia Rhodes, who appears in the ‘80s films Flashdance, Staying Alive, and Dirty Dancing. It was also a hit in Belgium, Sweden, Spain, France, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, the U.K., and the Netherlands. Billboard magazine ranked it the 11th most popular song of 1989 in the U.S. It was a worldwide hit in 1989, topping the charts in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. Right Here Waiting is Richard Marx’s best-selling and most recognizable song. This melody is gorgeous, but if I’m going to record it, I’m going to need you to rewrite the lyrics because I’m not going to be right here waiting for anybody!’” he told CBS in a 2013 interview. “She called and said, ‘I love this music. Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx - Song #109īefore recording it himself, Richard Marx offered this song to American megadiva Barbra Streisand.

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