Maxwell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Maxwell
Occupation	R&B Singer
Date Of Birth	May 23, 1973(1973-05-23)
Age	51
Birthplace	Camaçari
Country	Brazil
Birth City	Bahia
Horoscope	Taurus

Maxwell Biography

Maxwell is one of the most popular and richest R &B Singer who was born on May 23, 1973 in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil. Grammy Award- nominated R&B artist Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite was nominated for a Grammy Award. BLACKsummers’night was also Platinum-certified.

He and Erykah badu were at the forefront in the 1990s neosoul genre.

Initially influenced by early-1980s urban R&B, Maxwell progressed rapidly, and by 1991 he was performing on the New York City club scene. Maxwell was able to gain access to a 24-track recording studio and started to record songs for a demo tape, which he circulated among his friends. The demo engendered interest, and his official debut concert performance at Manhattan nightclub Nell’s drew a crowd. During the next two years, Maxwell wrote and recorded over three hundred songs and played frequently at small venues throughout New York City. Maxwell’s performances continued to draw interest and increase the buzz about him, and he was called “the next Prince” by a writer from Vibe magazine who attended one of his shows. After earning a considerable reputation, Maxwell signed a recording contract with Columbia Records in 1994. He adopted his middle name as a moniker out of respect for his family’s privacy.

After receiving a low-cost Casio keyboard from a friend, the Brooklyn, New York-native began composing music at age 17. Already a fan of what he described as “jheri curl soul”, which was the trademark of early 1980s R&B acts such as Patrice Rushen, S.O.S. Band and Rose Royce, Maxwell began to teach himself to play a variety of instruments. According to him, the R&B of the early 1980s contained “the perfect combination of computerized instrumentation with a live feel”, and that the genre’s dynamics later became lost due to the influence of hip hop on R&B. Despite facing ridicule from classmates for being shy and awkward, he progressed and continued to develop his musical abilities, and he also adopted the look of a more bohemian style outwardly in his clothing, growing long sideburns and letting his hair grow out wildly and combed in an extreme style, or sometimes putting his hair in long thin braids.

When he was just two years old, his father died in an airplane crash. In 2013 he began dating model His father died in a plane crash when he was two years old. In 2013 he began dating model Deimante Guobyte..

Maxwell Net Worth

Maxwell is one of the richest R &B Singer from Brazil. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maxwell 's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a performer in New York City in the 1980s and part the 1990s. In 1994, he signed a record deal.

His music was multi-genre, but he became the pioneer of soul music in the 1990s.

Gerald Maxwell Rivera (born May 23, 1973), known mononymously as Maxwell, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with fellow musicians D’Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell has been credited with helping to shape what has been termed the “neo soul” movement that rose to prominence during the late 1990s.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Maxwell height 5 ft 10 in Maxwell weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Maxwell Dating?

According to our records, Maxwell married to Giulia Andrade (m. 2006). As of December 1, 2023, Maxwell’s is not dating anyone.

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In commenting on the “new soul revival” in music, Maxwell told Entertainment Weekly in 1997 that “everything out there musically was inspired or influenced by something from the past. It’s not about creating some super-fresh new thing. If it doesn’t lend itself to your history, how is it going to extend to your future? That’s what’s really brilliant about looking into children’s eyes—you can see their parents in them.” The Washington Post called him “the Marvin Gaye of the ’90s”. Its columnist wrote that Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite “heralded the arrival of a top-of-the-class graduate of the old school of soul, one who could sing about romantic aspiration and tribulation with heart- wrenching emotion. It was as if the aesthetic that Gaye ascribed to — ‘music that has feeling, hope and meaning – all the things people are looking for’ — had been rediscovered after a long, hedonistic interlude.”

Facts & Trivia

Maxwell Ranked on the list of most popular R &B Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Brazil. Maxwell celebrates birthday on May 23 of every year.

Maxwell’s second studio album, Embrya, was released in early 1998, and upon its release it was panned by contemporary music critics. The album received mixed criticism for its more “indulgent sound.” With its internal focus and esoteric grooves, the album served as a departure for Maxwell, who did not regret risking his reputation with urban listeners for a more challenging record. The album experienced a critical backlash similar to that of other artists’ work that broke their previous releases’ successful formulas in favor of more compelling projects, now being termed “neo-soul.” In 1999, it won the Soul Train Music Award for Best Male Soul/R&B Album. In a retrospective review for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that Maxwell “overstuffs his songs with ideas that lead nowhere” and called Embrya “a bit of a sophomore stumble, albeit one with promising moments.” Arion Berger, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), found the songs monotonous and called the album “unfocused and pretentious … full of overwrought, underwritten songs with obscure, fancy titles revolving around a sort of sexual gnosticism.”

Why did Maxwell stop singing?

In 2009, the singer had to go through throat surgery because of swelling. This is always a tricky surgery for singers, as it is their primary instrument and there are so many things that can go wrong. Normally, the vocal cords are pearly white without any vasculature.

What is the net worth of Maxwell?

Net Worth: $10 Million
Date of Birth:| May 23, 1973 (49 years old)
Gender:| Male
Profession:| Singer, Record producer, Singer-songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist
Nationality:| United States of America

What nationality is Maxwell?

American

How old is Maxwell?

49 years (May 23, 1973)

How old is Jazmine Sullivan?

35 years (April 9, 1987)