American singer Richard Marx will perform charity concert in September for Dementia Singapore
This September, Grammy Award-winning singer Richard Marx will be right here waiting for you. Marx will stage a concert at Our Tampines Hub on Sep 14 – two days before his 61st birthday. The concert also serves as a fundraiser for social service agency Dementia Singapore to support those impacted by dementia. Last year, Dementia Singapore organised a similar charity concert with Danish band Michael Learns To Rock to great success, with tickets selling out hours after sales went live.
Tickets for Marx's concert will cost between S$118 and S$238, and can be purchased via Sistic. Shell GO+ members will have first dibs at scoring tickets via a pre-sale session that's happening from May 22 to Jun 4. Thereafter, members of the public can score tickets via the general sale happening from 11am on Jun 5.
Richard Marx has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, in a career spanning decades. He released his debut album in 1987 which went triple platinum. His follow-up release Repeat Offender in 1989 spawned the wildly-successful hit Right Here Waiting which topped music charts all over the world. In 2004, he earned the Grammy Award for Song Of The Year for the song Dance With My Father which he wrote with Luther Vandross. Marx is the only male artiste in history whose first seven singles reached the top five on the Billboard charts.
Richard Marx
2022 marks Richard Marx’s thirty-fifth year as a recording artist, and his thirty-eighth as a professional songwriter. 1984’s “What About Me,” released as a trio by Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes and James Ingram was co-written by Richard and became not only his first song recorded by an artist, but his first number one as a writer. On September 30th, Marx will release his unique and ambitious new album, simply and appropriately titled Songwriter.
Songwriter contains twenty tracks crossing four different musical genres. Five pop songs, five rock songs, five country songs and five beautiful ballads. “I’ve had such an amazing opportunity in my songwriting career to write all kinds of songs with, and for, all kinds of artists,” says Richard. “It finally occurred to me that there was no reason not to record an album of my own that touches on multiple genres I love.”
While he included a few existing songs that were written in the recent past, the bulk of Songwriter was created over the past year. “For instance,” Richard says, “I wrote a modern rock song a few years back called “Just Go” that I really love but I didn’t feel it fit the vibe of my last two albums. The band and I played it live a few times and people seemed to really love it, so I’m happy to finally get it out there.”
Richard Marx
Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963) is an American adult contemporary and pop rock 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.[9]
Marx is the only male artist in history to have his first seven singles reach the top 5 of the Billboard charts. He has scored a total of 14 number one singles, both as a performer and as a songwriter/producer. As a singer, his No. 1 hits include "Hazard", "Right Here Waiting", "Hold On to the Nights", "Endless Summer Nights", and "Satisfied". According to Billboard, Marx "holds the distinction of having written songs that have hit No. 1 on various Billboard charts in each of the last four decades." Marx has written or collaborated on songs with other artists, including "This I Promise You" by NSYNC and "Dance with My Father" by Luther Vandross. Marx has been nominated for five Grammy Awards. In 2003, he won the Grammy for Song of the Year for "Dance with My Father".
Rod Stewart @ Marina Bay Sands 16 & 17 Mar 2024
British pop-rock star, 78, last performed in Singapore in 2009; general tickets to go on sale on 10 November
Pop-rock star Rod Stewart - who sang classic hits such as "Maggie May", "Sailing" and "Have I Told You Lately" - will return to Singapore to perform at the Sands Grand Ballroom on 16 and 17 March next year. The 78-year-old British singer-songwriter - who last performed in the city-state at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in 2009 - will be embarking on the Asia leg of his “Live in Concert, One Last Time” tour in March, his first concerts in Asia after 15 years.
Besides Singapore, the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is also set to perform in Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines and Japan. Stewart will be performing hit songs as well as covers across his five-decade career. Fans will also get to witness a dynamic stage production, which includes 12 band members and backup vocalists.
“It has been 15 years since my last Asian tour, which is far too long! I truly cannot wait to return with a setlist of all my biggest hits and one of the most extraordinary productions of my career. It's going to be quite a bash," he said in a media release on Wednesday (25 October). The Singapore stop is part of Marina Bay Sands’ "Sands Live" concert series, which was first unveiled in 2014 and relaunched in March this year. The concert series has brought in performers such as The Rolling Stones, Michael Bublé, and Celine Dion.
