Mark Lowry

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Mark Lowry is listed in the credits for the following albums:

Year Artist Album Role
1992 Buddy Greene Buddy Greene and Friends Live! Songwriter
1993 Geoff Moore & The Distance Evolution Voice of Teacher ("Evolution...Redefined")
1993 Gaither Vocal Band Southern Classics Vocals
1996 Bruce Carroll Speed Of Light Songwriter
1996 Buddy Greene Simple Praise Songwriter
1998 Buddy Greene Christmas...Not Just Any Night Songwriter

Mark Lowry

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Born: 
Jun 24, 1958
Age: 
65

Mark Alan Lowry is a Christian comedian, songwriter, and singer, best known for co-writing the song "Mary, Did You Know?". Lowry performed with the Gaither Vocal Band from 1988–2001 and, in January 2009, he re-joined the group along with other "GVB" alumni Michael English and David Phelps. Lowry has recorded both music and comedy albums.

Early life
Lowry was born in Houston, Texas, to Charles, an attorney, and Beverly Lowry. He often uses anecdotes of his young life in his comedy, as well as speaking of his experience with hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Disorder in his performances. Lowry is a self-described "Poster Boy for Hyperactivity".

Early career
While attending Liberty Baptist College (now known as Liberty University), Lowry joined a college evangelistic team made of Charles Hughes and David Musselman and began singing. Lowry's comedy career inadvertently began from here. There would be an elongated pause in his singing performance while he waited for the soundtrack to be changed. Lowry began to fill this pause with a monologue. Lowry soon realized that the audiences at his performances were laughing not at him but at his monologues.

In 1978, Lowry was badly injured in a car accident near Carlisle, PA, while touring with a college evangelistic team. He sustained eleven broken bones, and spent a good deal of time in physical therapy recovering from the accident.

Mary, Did You Know?
In 1984, Lowry wrote the lyrics to the song "Mary, Did You Know?", when asked to write a script for a church Christmas play. Lowry wrote a series of questions that he would like to ask Mary, the mother of Jesus. These questions were used in between the scenes of the play. Over the next decade, Lowry tried to find the music that would complete the song. Twelve years after writing the lyrics, musician and songwriter Buddy Greene wrote the music to the song. The Christmas play script then became the song.

The song has become a popular Christmas song performed by more than thirty artists including Cee Lo Green, Clay Aiken, Kenny Rogers, Wynonna Judd, Michael English, Daniel Childs, Natalie Cole, Pippa Wilson, Kathy Mattea, Michael Crawford, and Pentatonix.

The Gaither Vocal Band
In 1988, Lowry was approached by Bill Gaither and asked to join the Gaither Vocal Band as the baritone. Lowry's career with the Gaither Vocal Band spanned thirteen years during his first stint with the group. During this time Lowry's on-stage antics became popular with audiences. As a result, Lowry became the co-host of the many concerts and shows performed by Gaither and the Vocal Band with Gaither playing the straight man to Lowry's antics.

In June 2001, Lowry resigned from the Gaither Vocal Band after performing longer with the group than any previous member except Bill Gaither himself. After that, Lowry released several solo albums, including I Love to Tell the Story, A Hymns Collection.

On January 14, 2009, it was announced that Lowry would be returning to the Gaither Vocal Band while maintaining his solo career. In October 2013, it was announced that Mark Lowry and Michael English would be leaving the group to devote more time to their solo careers. Mark stayed on through the end of the year.

Lowry continues to tour the United States performing his music and comedy concerts as well as recording music and comedy CD albums and videos. In addition, Lowry records and publishes several iPod podcasts; in particular, Saturdays with Mark and Tony, a weekly podcast with Tony Campolo. Lowry is also co-hosting "Bill Gaither's Homecoming Radio" with Bill Gaither and Phil Brower. Starting in March 2011, he has been a frequent co-host of the TV show "Red Letter Christians" with Tony Campolo.

Mark Lowry. (2015, January 22). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:27, March 23, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Lowry&oldid=643668659

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