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Mark Steven Evitts is an American composer, producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Evitts has worked with such artists as Nas, Hit-Boy, G Herbo, Cheat Codes (DJs), Train, Blues Traveler, Jewel, Rodney Atkins, The Band Perry, Secondhand Serenade, Katharine McPhee, Drew Seeley, Jaida Dreyer, We The Kings, among many others.
In April 2023, Frog and Toad released as a series on Apple TV+, in which Evitts was the composer and songwriter. Speaking of Evitts's original song for the show about Ice Cream, in which Tom Kenny sang the lead, Laura Zornosa of Time said, "It’s an earworm song—one that’s easy to imagine kids requesting again and again."
In 2021, Mark was a co-writer on the Nas (feat. Blxst) single, "Brunch on Sundays" for the Grammy nominated rap album, King's Disease II. Evitts also recorded on Joey + Rory's RIAA certified Gold selling, Grammy winning album, "Hymns", as well as working with producers Sam Hollander and Josh Edmondson (songwriter) on ten episodes of NBC's SMASH, including the Emmy nominated original song, "I Heard Your Voice In A Dream".
Mark co-wrote additional music with film composer Alex Geringas on the Netflix Animation feature film Arlo the Alligator Boy. He has been an arranger, musician and music producer on several hit television shows, including The Bachelor, Nashville, Blood & Oil, the BBC documentary, "Love In A Day", Discovering Lucy Angel, SVT's award winner documentary series Jills veranda, as well as films such as Summer Forever and Finding Your Feet.
In addition to his original compositions and arranging, Mark was also in the trio, St. Alban consisting of Mark, Peter McVeigh of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Andy Dunlop (guitarist for Travis) of Glasgow, Scotland. Their self-titled debut album was BBC Radio's Album of the Week.
Early life and education
A Kentucky-native, Evitts began his classical music training at age twelve with the Concertmaster of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, Kathy McCann Gardner. In 1999, Evitts went to Murray State University where he met mandolinist, Chris Thile. Evitts left Murray State University after only a semester. In 2006, Mark began touring with the band Scarlet Kings (previously Oval Opus) until 2009. In 2010, Evitts ventured into film as the musical director and producer for the documentary Newport.
In 2022, Mark was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Kentucky governor, Andy Beshear. In 2024, Evitts was inducted into the Paducah Tilghman High School Hall of Fame. Evitts went back to school to finish his degree and is a 2024 graduate of Berklee College of Music.
Selected film/TV
Selected discography
Tours
References
10.Sängerin veröffentlicht neue Single "One In A Million"
11. It turns Nashville
12. Lisa-Marie Fischer: Ein Talent geht seinen Weg
Biography on markevitts.com
External links
Official website
Mark Evitts at IMDb
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