Mark Rose:  

Mark is from Newark, New Jersey. Mark's schools include Barringer High School. Mark later attended New Jersey City University. Music Mark likes includes The Craig Lewis Band. More about Mark:"Christian,Singer, Songwriter,poet,steward,father, brother, son. i've been blessed in my life to have had the opportunity to be a part of some of the most influentual people in the world, in music and in life. From finding that i am related to one of the fore runners of the civil rights movement here in newark nj, Amiri Baraka, to my chance friendship and loving affection for the true r&b diva herself Whitney Houston and her family, i've been blessed. i've been mentored by some of the greatess people through out my life, beginning with Sterling and Pauline Jones, for they showed me that God is Love. they took me in when they didnt have to and raised me as their own and for this i am truly and forever grateful to God and to them. from this i was blessed with a sister, Lisa Jones-Gillette, who said God doesnt have a sense of humor, seriously, i wouldnt have asked for a better sister, she was and will always be my heart. she's taught me so much even though i have her in years she was blessed with an insight like no other, her wisdom is vast. The Jackson/McGahee's, my uncle Robert "bobby" Jackson, who first drove home the importance of education as well as higher education, whether it be in school or life, he'd always put emphesis on never ending your education, especially as a man of color and a man of God. a lesson that would save my life years later. Eugene Brown who helped me find my gift of song that God had blessed me with, he was the catalyst in my g...Expand for more