Singer/Songwriter

Mark started playing guitar in his mid-teens and immediately began to combine lyrics with music to create his own songs. Due to lack of confidence and stage fright he deliberately resisted playing his music to anyone but close friends and family until the early 90’s when one of his songs came to the attention of a friend, Hazell, who ran a spiritual sanctuary. 

Hazell asked Mark if he would perform some of his music to an audience at the sanctuary, which he initially resisted but eventually agreed to and started on an adventure which would take his songs to a global audience. 

Mark overcame his lack of confidence and stage fright and within less than two years of that first public performance Mark found himself performing to an audience of over 6,000 at a global spiritual event called Peace on Earth Day, at Wembley Arena. 

He was also asked by the organisers to compose a song for the event and so wrote and performed The Power of One. A song which celebrates the power of people and minds uniting as one force to try to change the world. Very much the purpose of Peace on Earth Day. The lyrics were printed in the event programme and it resulted in the whole audience singing along and waving their arms during every chorus as Mark performed The Power of One. 

The appearance at Wembley led to many opportunities and requests to perform and in 2001 Mark wrote a song titled The Angel Song for a new event being held in London called World Angel Day. The event was held at Kensington Town Hall and was a huge success, so much so that the following year, in addition to the main event in London, World Angel Day events were held in 17 countries worldwide and The Angel Song, by then re-recorded with The London Community Gospel Choir, was distributed to every organiser worldwide and used as the theme song for the day. Bringing Mark’s music to a global audience. 

That year Mark performed The Angel Song at the London event and two days later in Los Angeles, the City of Angels, at the US World Angel Day. 

The following few years bought many opportunities to perform worldwide and Mark’s first album, It Whispers Love which features The Angel Song, sold thousands of copies around the world and at one point the album reached number three in the ‘unsigned artist’ chart. Because of business, family and other commitments Mark stopped performing publicly in 2011 for four years and now makes the occasional live appearance when requested. Between 2001 and 2015 Mark wrote, recorded and released four albums of his music and a fifth has followed in 2023. The new album, Forever, features a song titled The Key which has been selected to be be played over the end titles of a US television series pilot call The Shipment. Both the pilot and The Key premiered at the historic Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in July 2023. The new album mostly moves away from the mainly spiritually themed songs of his first two or three albums with songs that were written before during and shortly after the global pandemic and lockdowns and whilst waiting to be able to orchestrate and record. But there is always an underlying spirituality within many of the songs even though they might be songs of love, heartbreak or every day experience.

Mark is currently working on a number of new songs for a sixth album, plus another album featuring other artists performing his songs, plus a purely acoustic collection of his songs so listeners can hear them as they were originally written – and is writing a musical about a guardian angel which will feature a number of songs from the albums plus new songs written specifically for the musical.

The latest album, Forever, plus the previous four albums are available to stream or download on Spotify, Apple Music and most other digital platforms and can also be listened to via the links below