Marcus Blake is an American Los Angeles based musician and songwriter. He is primarily a bass guitarist but also sings lead and backing vocals and plays guitar. Blake has written played recorded and toured with numerous bands and artists and musical luminaries since 1993 including: Mother Superior Rollins Band Daniel Lanois Sparks Pearl Meat Loaf Alice Cooper Tony Visconti Emmylou Harris Wayne Kramer and George Clinton. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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