Amber Mark

**Amber Mark** (born December 29, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer. She released her first mini-album, *3:33am*, in May 2017. Her multifaceted style implements sounds from hip hop, R&B, soul, and bossa nova. She was nominated as a featured artist for "Best Engineered Album" at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. Her debut album, *Three Dimensions Deep*, was released in January 2022.

Photography by Nelson Huang

## Life and Career

### 1993–2015: Early Life

Mark was born on December 29, 1993 on a farm in Summertown, Tennessee to a Jamaican father and a German mother whose name was Mia Mark, from Kaiserslautern. Mark's mother was a painter, while her father was a musician. Mark has an older half-brother and an older sister. Mark and her mother lived in Miami, New York, Munich and eventually moved to a Darjeeling monastery in India so that her mother could learn Tibetan Buddhist thangka painting. After spending a few years there, they moved back to her mother's home country, in the Pankow borough of Berlin. It was Mia who gave Mark her first guitar, which is when she started to teach herself how to play music. Before high school, Mark and her mother moved back to New York City, where her godparents legally adopted her so that she could go to Talent Unlimited High School in the city. Mark and her mother later moved back to Miami, where her brother lived. There, Mark attended Miami Beach Senior High.  In high school, Mark joined the school choir and an after school rock ensemble. She stated in an interview that this was when she realized that being an artist was what she wanted to do. Mark later moved back to New York City, where she interned at Roc Nation. Mia died in 2013, at the age of 60.

### 2016–2020: Career beginnings

Mark released her debut single "S P A C E" to her Soundcloud in 2016. In 2017 she released her first album, "3:33am". As Mark explained, "Three has been a really common number in my life. My mother was born in 1953, my brother was born in 1983 and I was born in 1993. Then my mum passed away on June 3, at 10:23pm in 2013. Since then, I'd see threes everywhere. When I was writing the EP in New York... and out of the zone, I would check the clock and I always remember it being 3:33am." The album art features a photo taken by her sister, in which Mark is wearing a watch that reads 3:33.

Each song on the record represents one of the six stages of grief. The song "Monsoon" includes samples of her mother's voice, which she explained in an interview with Sound of Boston as "a video recording of me flying back to New York for the summer while we were living in Berlin. I wanted to make a video for my godmother from my mother. Hence why I’m telling her that they don’t speak German and that she needs to speak English. When she says she loves me that is from a more recent recording she made for me while she was in hospice." Her mother, Mia, also influenced her fashion greatly and Mark elaborates on this influence in her 2017 interview with Vogue as the "3:33am" album was just released.

In 2018 she issued the EP "*Conexão*" that included the single "Love Me Right".

### 2021–present: *Three Dimensions Deep*

Following the release of five singles in 2021 from her full-length debut, *Three Dimensions Deep*, the album itself was released on January 28, 2022.