Maxwell Rivera
Birthname: Maxwell Rivera
Stage name: Maxwell
Gender: Male
Nationality: United States
Horoscope: Gemini
Date of birth: 1973-05-23
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Occupation: singer
Father: Puerto Rican
Mother: Trinidadian
Biography:
Maxwell was born May 23, 1973, in Brooklyn, NY; he adopted his middle name as his stage moniker, keeping his real identity a closely guarded secret out of concern for his family''''''''s privacy. Born of Puerto Rican and black Caribbean stock, Maxwell suffered the loss of his father (in a plane crash) when he was just three years old. The experience made him a deeply religious child, and he first began singing in his Baptist church. Still, he didn''''''''t really get serious about music until age 17, when he began writing his own songs using a cheap Casio keyboard given to him by a friend. Initially influenced by early-''''''''80s urban R&B, he progressed rapidly, and by 1991 he was performing on the New York club scene, despite ridicule from classmates who couldn''''''''t imagine the shy, awkward teenager doing anything of the sort. After making a name for himself, he signed a recording contract with Columbia in 1994.Following the platinum successes of 1996''''''''s Maxwell''''''''s Urban Hang Suite and 1998''''''''s Embrya as well as 1997''''''''s gold-certified MTV Unplugged EP, Now is bothconceptually simpler while, at the same time, a leap forward in consciousness." Now is about a moment-to-moment energy," says the singer and songwriter, "and that in itself can
Birthname: Maxwell RiveraStage name: Maxwell
Gender: Male
Nationality: United States
Horoscope: Gemini
Date of birth: 1973-05-23
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Occupation: singer
Father: Puerto Rican
Mother: Trinidadian
Biography:
Maxwell was born May 23, 1973, in Brooklyn, NY; he adopted his middle name as his stage moniker, keeping his real identity a closely guarded secret out of concern for his family''''''''s privacy. Born of Puerto Rican and black Caribbean stock, Maxwell suffered the loss of his father (in a plane crash) when he was just three years old. The experience made him a deeply religious child, and he first began singing in his Baptist church. Still, he didn''''''''t really get serious about music until age 17, when he began writing his own songs using a cheap Casio keyboard given to him by a friend. Initially influenced by early-''''''''80s urban R&B, he progressed rapidly, and by 1991 he was performing on the New York club scene, despite ridicule from classmates who couldn''''''''t imagine the shy, awkward teenager doing anything of the sort. After making a name for himself, he signed a recording contract with Columbia in 1994.Following the platinum successes of 1996''''''''s Maxwell''''''''s Urban Hang Suite and 1998''''''''s Embrya as well as 1997''''''''s gold-certified MTV Unplugged EP, Now is bothconceptually simpler while, at the same time, a leap forward in consciousness." Now is about a moment-to-moment energy," says the singer and songwriter, "and that in itself can
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