Please answer the following question: Facts: - instrument: guitar vocals bass guitar harmonica - birth name: david holland - alias: spiros david markantonatos - birth date: 12 february 1944 - name: david marks - background: solo_singer - associated acts: four jacks and a jill - occupation: guitarist sound engineer , author , vocalist , record producer , publisher , Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of david marks -lrb- songwriter -rrb- .
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david marks is a south african-born songwriter , singer , producer , music archivist , and publisher who has been a member of the south african music industry since the 1970s .he spent much of his early career mixing , recording , releasing , and archiving a broad cross-spectrum of south african music .marks achieved success with his songwriting , penning some international hits , most notably '' master jack '' , '' mr. nico '' , and '' hey mister '' -- songs that marks wrote prior to 1967 whilst working underground in south africa 's free state gold mines .