Mark Myers

I began my career in the music industry at age 13. I bought my first set of drums and began taking lessons. For the next 20 years I was the drummer for many bands in the San Francisco area. Recording or playing clubs, bars, and dives. In the early 80's I graduated from San Francisco State with a BA in Broadcast Communication Arts. I worked and interned in several recording studios for a couple of years. Eventually I started buying equipment and moved everything to a location off of Army Street in San Francisco. I opened a facility called Secret Studios Recording. This was a time when rap was exploding and I was in the vanguard. I worked with a lot of those early groups from the Bay Area. Dre-Dog, Totally Insane, Ill-Mannered Posse, 5150, RBL Posse to name some. I started programming, writing and producing with some of these artists. I had a production company named Mark V Productions, soon most artists simply called me Mark V (thats a roman numeral five). After 7 years at that location I moved the studio to what used to be the NBC TV Studios on the corner of Polk & Sutter streets in San Francisco. We started a co-op of recording and production facilities called 3rd Floor Productions. A lot of music came out of those studios for a couple of years. Re-mixes for Sting, RuPaul, Arrested Development, etc. Reggae, R & B, soul, Hip-Hop, Rap, Rock we were churning out 24/7. In 1993, producing partner Bill Cutler and I, were signed to BMG as the group "The MysteryTramps" after recording a hip-hop version of "Like A Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan. Dylan endorsed the track and gave us permission to use his music and voice in the track. The record got some great reviews and extensive publicity but wasn't a commercial success. I moved to Los Angeles in 1995. I hooked up with Bone-Thugs N' Harmony right after their Grammy win. I worked for them for a couple of years recording Flesh N' Bone's solo record and the two Mo Thugs records as well as cuts for Krazie's first solo record. Through Bone I met and worked with Run-DMC, The Luniz, Big Joe and many other artists. In the late 90's I started to specialize in Afro-Cuban/Latin music. I worked with some of the best musicians of that genre. In 1999 I mixed and recorded a group named "Caravana Cubana" and that record was nominated for two Grammy's. I continue to work with Rap, R & B, Jazz and Pop. I've had some of my own compositions placed on the TV shows "Felicity" , "Soul Food" and "One Life To Live", an