Amber Mark (born December 29, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer. She released her first mini-album, ''3:33am'', in May 2017. Her multifaceted style implements sounds from
hip hop,
R&B,
soul
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Etymology
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, and
bossa nova
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. She was nominated as a featured artist for "Best Engineered Album" at the
61st Annual Grammy Awards
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.
Her debut album, ''
Three Dimensions Deep'', was released in January 2022.
Life and career
1993–2015: Early life
Mark was born on December 29, 1993, on a farm in
Summertown, Tennessee
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to a
Jamaica
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n father and a
German
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mother whose name was Mia Mark, from
Kaiserslautern
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.
Amber Mark's mother was a painter and her father was a musician.
She has an older half-brother and an older sister. She and her mother lived in
Miami
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,
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Film and television
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, and
Munich
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eventually moving to a
Darjeeling
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monastery in
India
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so that her mother could learn Tibetan Buddhist
thangka painting.
After spending a few years there, they moved back to her mother's home country, in the
Pankow
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borough of
Berlin
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. It was Mia Mark who gave Amber her first guitar; Amber started to teach herself how to play music. Before she attended high school Amber Mark and her mother moved back to New York City, where her godparents legally adopted her so that she could go to
Talent Unlimited High School in the city.
Amber Mark and her mother later moved back to Miami where her brother lived.
Mark attended
Miami Beach Senior High
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.
She joined the high school choir and an after school rock ensemble.
She said during an interview that this was when she realized that she wanted to be an artist. Sh moved back later to
New York City
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where she interned at
Roc Nation
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.
Mia Mark died in 2013 at the age of 60.
2016–2020: Career beginnings
Mark released her debut single "S P A C E" to her
SoundCloud
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in 2016. In 2017 she released her first album, "3:33am". As Mark explained, "
ree has been a really common number in my life. My mother was born in 1953, my brother was born in 1983 and I was born in 1993. Then my mum passed away on June 3, at 10:23pm in 2013. Since then, I'd see threes everywhere. When I was writing the EP in
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
... and out of the zone, I would check the clock and I always remember it being 3:33am." The album art features a photo taken by her sister, in which Mark is wearing a watch that reads 3:33.
Each song on the record represents one of the six stages of grief. The song "Monsoon" includes samples of her mother's voice, which she explained in an interview with Sound of Boston as "a video recording of me flying back to New York for the summer while we were living in Berlin. I wanted to make a video for my godmother from my mother. Hence why I’m telling her that they don’t speak German and that she needs to speak English. When she says she loves me that is from a more recent recording she made for me while she was in hospice."
Her mother, Mia, also influenced her fashion greatly and Mark elaborated on this influence in her 2017 interview with Vogue as the "3:33am" album was being released.
In 2018 she released the EP "''Conexão''" that included the single "Love Me Right".
2021–present: ''Three Dimensions Deep''
Five singles from her full-length debut album, ''
Three Dimensions Deep,'' were released in 2021. The entire album was released on January 28, 2022.
Discography
Studio albums
Mini-albums
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Official website*
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1993 births
Living people
American women singer-songwriters
American singer-songwriters
American people of Jamaican descent
American people of German descent
21st-century American women