Louisa Mark

Louisa Mark ( born January 11, 1960 in London, † October 17, 2009 in Gambia) was a British singer. It was known from the mid-1970s in London and is in spite of their not very extensive output as a pioneer and one of the major singers of the Lovers Rock.

Life

Louisa Mark was born as the second daughter of a family of immigrants from Grenada, who settled in Ladbroke Grove, West London. Her father worked in construction, her mother worked as a factory worker and later as a senior care assistant. Mark still attended the Secondary School when she took her first steps in the music scene. In 1973 she was a guest singer with Dennis Bovells Jah Sufferer sound system, then the Metro Club in Westbourne Park. The young singer impressed the audience with a surprisingly strong for her age and distinctive singing voice. 1974 invited Lloyd Coxsone, who was also the operator of a sound system and music producer, Mark A, to appear on Star Search, a weekly Club Four Aces held in Dalston talent competition. She won there for ten weeks in a row the first place.

In November 1974 Coxsone Mark brought into the Gooseberry Studios to record with her and Bovells band Matumbi a reggae adaptation of the R & B songs Caught You in a Lie by Robert Parker. The song came straight away to good, the single sold in the first 14 days 10,000 times. The sung by the then 15 -year-old Mark piece is usually regarded as the first song of lovers rock.

Shortly thereafter, still followed by a reggae version of the Beatles song All My Loving, then Mark parted in the dispute of producer Coxsone. In the following eighteen months, she produced no plates, but closed at first out of school.

In 1977, Mark to Trojan Records and worked with producer Clement Bushay and songwriter and arranger Joseph Charles. In this co- Keep It Like It Is Mark was left Trojan back then because she was unhappy with the marketing of the single by the label, and worked in the sequence with the newly founded Bushay label. The -released under the new label reggae cover version of Michael Jacksons Even Though You're Gone and Six Sixth Street, one written by Charles song became hits and left in 1978 to be a very successful year for Marks. In the same year she was honored at the British Reggae Awards as Artist of the Year. In 1979, with People in Love yet a further single out, then Mark pulled back for some time from the music business.

Not until the early 1980s, she worked again with Bushay and Charles. In 1981 came out with breakout Marks first album on the new addition to some of their already successful songs were heard. She was, however, disappointed with the design and found that it had been released too early and unfinished. She has since remained in constant vigilance against the music industry and took only sporadically on new songs, but none of them could come close to their great successes more.

Mid-2000s drew to Mark to Gambia, where she devoted herself to charitable projects. There she died on 17 October 2009.

Discography (selection)

Albums:

• Breakout ( 1981)

Singles:

• Caught You in a Lie (1975 )
• Keep It Like It Is (1977 )
• Even Though You're Gone (1978 )
• Six Sixth Street (1978 )