I’m a huge mimic. That’s how I learned to sing. I listened to a lot of Freddy Mercury, obviously. Marc Martel Read Quote
My mom is the piano player in my dad’s church – she’s also the choir director – and she’s just a musician through and through. Marc Martel Read Quote
Honestly, 198,9 I was 12 or 13 years old and primed for the new boy band thing. This guy Jordan Knight sounded like a chick, and I wanted to figure out how to do it, and I did. Marc Martel Read Quote
Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage. Marc Martel Read Quote
The name Downhere comes from a song I wrote after a friend of mine died in college, and it was kind of the first time I was dealing with loss and, you know, real mortality, and it was a song of how down here on Earth, we don’t have the big picture. Marc Martel Read Quote
My biggest influences when I was a kid – I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-’80s. Marc Martel Read Quote
I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing. Marc Martel Read Quote
I was born in ’76, but I didn’t get into rock until the early ’90s when the grunge stuff started coming out. Marc Martel Read Quote
I always loved music – it was always in the house – and my younger brother is musical, too. Marc Martel Read Quote