Mark Read

As the title says, I'm going to write a little about the singer Mark Read. Most of you guys might know him from the Boy/Man-band a1.

He's from a quite musical family, and he started playing the piano when he was only 3 years old! Mark was only seven when he took the interest in the art of performing, after he joined his parents on stage when they were in a band (sorry about that bad english!).



When he was around 16-19, he got many offers about taking part in different projects, but it was first when he met Ben Adams, that his music-career really got a boost. Read got his first contract when he was only 20 years old!

When the band broke up in 2002, he chosed to write songs for other artists. The 25th of May 2009, his first soloalbun; "Peace at last", were launched. In August 2009, Mark performed again with a1 in the norwegian summershow "Allsang på Grensen".

This song makes me wanna dance!

In November 2009 they released the single "Take you home", which was the official Red Nose Day-song in Norway. The band also had several reunion-concerts at Christiania theatre in Oslo (i was there juhuuu!). After this concerts, it was confirmed, a1 was back together as a band!

a1; Mark Read, Christian Ingebrigtsen and Ben Adams


Janyary 23th 2010 he and a1 participated in the Norwegian finals of Eurovision song contest, with the song "Don't wanna lose you again". They got a very nice second place, behind Didrik Solli-Tangen.

In October 2010, the first a1 album in 8 years, "Waiting for daylight" were released!