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MARK OWEN BIOGRAPHY |
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Mark Anthony Patrick Owen was born in Oldham (England) on
January 27th 1972. Son of Marie and Keith Owen, he has a brother
called Daniel and a sister called Tracy.
His first ambition was to be a pilot, but once at Lyndhurst
Primary School, football started to take over as the big passion
in Mark's life. He went up to St. Augustine of Canterbury School
and still it was football that consumed his every hour. He had
trials with Huddersfield Town, Rochdale and the mighty
Manchester United followed, but though lowly Rochdale asked him
back he decided the life of a professional sportsman was 'too
much like hard work'.
He had several jobs after leaving school, being the first in a
boutique called Zuttis, he even worked on Barclays Bank but the
one that changed his life was a part-time job at the Strawberry
Studios.
That's where he met Gary Barlow, who was by then recording a
demo tape and invited Mark to make backing-vocals on it. They
started working together as Cutest Rush and when they approached
local manager Nigel Martin-Smith to take over their affairs he
put them together with two young breakdancers called Howard
Donald and Jason Orange. After an audition Robbie Williams was
added to the band and Take That were born!
Take That worked really hard and in the following five years
they managed to get 14 singles into the UK Top 20. Mark had his
first vocal spotlight on a duet with Gary in a song called "How
Can It Be" (a B-side of the single "A Million Love Songs"). The
song "Babe" sang by Mark got to No. 1 on Christmas 1994. He was
also lead vocalist on Nobody Else's "The Day After Tomorrow".
Robbie left on July 17th 1995 and after an overwhelming tour, a
new album and single, Take That splitted up on April 5th 1996,
leaving behind them four albums, eight No.1 singles and millions
of heart-broken fans all over the world.
But whoever could have thought Mark's career was over was really
wrong. Mark didn't had time for holidays and he promptly started
working on his solo album.
His first solo single was "Child" released on November 18th
1996. It was followed by the album named "Green Man" and the
singles "Clementine" and "I Am What I Am". He made a successful
european tour in 1997 and then disappeared from the public eye.
Meanwhile he has been writing his second solo album, he got in
trouble with his record-company RCA and leaved them in 1999. He
often take part in charity actions (such as Soccer Six). He
recently worked with a group called "Space" in their new album.
He lives happy with his long-term girlfriend Joanna Kelly in
Lake District, getting more and more enlightned every day... |
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