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MARK WEST HAS STRUGGLED THROUGH HIS WHOLE LIFE.NOW NEARING 31 YEARS OLD HE HAS GAVE UP ON DREAMING NOW HE IS CHASEING THE DREAM.BOUND AND DETERMIND TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL SINGER/SONGWRITER.HIS BAD EXPERIENCES WITH LIFE AND SEVERAL RUN-IN'S WITH THE LAW HAS GAVE HIM A SOUL FULL OF SONG.SONGS ABOUT LOVE,GOD,PRISON AND STRUGGLES IS WHAT YOU HEAR IN HIS MOST FAVORITE TUNES.HE PLAYS AROUND A LITTLE AND WRITES THE OCASIONAL BARROOM SONGS LIKE- "SHE'S IN THE SPOTLIGHT".ARE THE FUN SONGS LIKE "WITHOUT MY BAD LUCK I'D HAVE NO LUCK"BUT THE DEPTH OF HIS MUSIC IS ABOUT HIS LIFE HIS PRISON TIME AND HIS WIFE WHO HAS STAYED RIGHT BY HIS SIDE.FROM SONG LIKE "I'LL HOLD ONTO YOU","WILL THESE WAVES EASE MY MIND",HEAVENS RADIO",LET US WORRY ABOUT YOU",& "THE HARDEST DAYS OF MY LIFE". MARK HAS ALWAYS LOVED MUSIC AND HAS PERFOMED IN MANY PLACES CHARGEING NO FEE TO LISTEN TO HIS SONGS.AND WELCOMEING DONATIONS WHEN OFFERED,MARK SERVED A 3 YEAR SENTENCE IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA PRISON SYSTEM WHERE HE BOOSTED HIS SONGWRITING TO ANOTHER LEVEL WITH SONGS LIKE "DO I HAVE A CHANCE","WHAT I NEED IS YOU","AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER" &"I WANNA LOVE YOU".HE NOW HAS A HUGE COLLECTION OF HIS OWN LIFE WRITTEN IN SONG.WAITING ON THE RIGHT TIME TO COME HIS WAY. AS FOR CURRENT STATE.MARK IS SEARCHING FOR DEDICATED BAND MEMBERS IN HIS AREA IN GEORGIA,ABOUT 150 MILES FROM NASHVILLE TENNESSEE,HE HAS SEVERAL SONGS IN THE WORKING WITH DIFFRENT PUBLISHERS AND FEELS HE IS ON HIS WAY.MARK ASK FOR ANY WILLING PERSON THAT WOULD LIKE TO HELP HIM FURTHER HIS DREAM TO DO SO... MARK WAS RAISED IN A CHILDRENS HOME IN CHATTANOOGA TENNESSE, WHERE HE SPENT TEN YEARS OF HIS LIFE,THEN WAS LET OUT TO A WORLD HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT,GOT AROUND THE WRONG PEOPLE DID THE WRONG THINGS AND WENT TO PRISON,THE BEST THING AS OF NOW THAT HAS COME OUT OF HIS LIFE ARE HIS CHILDREN,SONGS,AND WIFE. SO HEY THATS A PREETY UP AND DOWN LIFE..
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
i trip to prison is what started this band.i had time to think about life,mistakes,love,god and family.so i found myself writing songs about all this ..and i already loved to play and sing before prison..i guess a little voice from above told me..mark if you ever want to have a good life and provide for your wife and children the way you want to.then do what i made you for boy... sing,write..this is what mark west is suppose to do.so i am not trying to do so
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
yes i will play live if the opertunity arives
Your musical influences
country music,songs about life love family children god breakups and hookups prison and mistakes.
every song you hear this ol boy sing covers one of those areas and tells my life in a song
What equipment do you use?
glad you asked i currently have no band so all i have to use at the moment is my acustic,electric guitar,my voice and my computer..useing loops to make my music so if it sounds bad thats what it is.. set me up in front of a band and i will rock the house and send chills down the audiances backbones
Anything else?
would just like to say that this is a forfetched dream of mine. i don't know if thier is a way to make it bigtime starting out as low as i am and at 30 years old that makes it even harder..being on parole adds to that weight,and just getting out of prison 4 months ago makes it seem impossible.. but hey thier is always a chance so i am going with my heart and my soul all the way..and if i never become a singer maybe i can become a professional songwritersearching
