Mark has worked in showbusiness from the age of fifteen. He started his career with the conventional pop bands of the 1960’s, The Nightriders & The Escorts. By the time he was seventeen-and-a-half, he was singing with an eighteen-piece orchestra under the direction of Bill Sowerby. At the age of twenty two, Mark was running his own band at the Top Rank Ballroom in Darlington, Co Durham, England. 

Mark recorded his first single in 1971, called 909 (covered with Venus). The song was written and produced by The Emperor Rosko. The Emperor Rosko (Michael Pasternak), was a record producer as well as being a popular BBC Radio One presenter. The single was released on the Mother / EMI record label and distributed by Beacon / EMI.

With the release of this single, Mark signed with manager Colin Hutchinson and later Neil Johnson both of whom helped to promote Mark’s career as a solo singer entertainer.

In 1974 Mark wrote a song for the late singer and entertainer Frankie Vaughan called “I’ll Never See Julie Again”. This took his vocal talents into the cabaret clubs of Britain. Television followed, and to date Mark has appeared on fourteen major T.V. Shows, and has sung on numerous radio broadcasts with the BBC Northern Radio Orchestra.

On two occasions Mark has been part of the three member team representing Gt Britain at the European Song Festival, held at Knokke, Belgium, and on each occasion they have been the winners. This introduced Mark to the international music scene, resulting in him touring and performing in Norway, Malta, Las Palmas, The Gambia, and the casino circuit in Portugal, whilst periodically entertaining passengers on P&O cruise liner Canberra and Oriana. In the nineties, he was one of the star guest entertainers on board the Star Princess, for Princess Cruises.

On the home front, he has worked in many theatres and stage shows including the Adam Smith Centre, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the Bristol Hippodrome, The Liverpool Empire, and the highly acclaimed summer show at the Horseshoe Bar Blackpool, as well as appearing in seven production shows for Butlin’s Holiday Centres.

Up until 2009, Mark was singing at least two/three nights per week, running a small entertainment agency in Warrington Cheshire called Almara Music Productions. The agency specialised  in booking bands, singers comedians and various artists for television and holiday centres.

In 2020, Mark teamed up with fellow singer, songwriter and guitarist Chris Morris.To date,  they have jointly written twenty new songs. They are constantly  working on new projects whilst also applying their individualism to each other’s back catalogue of original compositions.

For further information regarding either Almara Music or chrismarkmusic you can contact Mark by clicking on the  links below.