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Let have a conversation with Mark Kibble from the grammy awarding winning group Take 6!

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Mark Kibble

Take 6 original member/ arranger/producer

I, Mark Winston Kibble, was born on April 7, 1964, in The Bronx, NY. My early childhood was spent in Hempstead, NY, Bridgeport, CT, Boston, MA, and by 1970, Buffalo, NY where I spent most of my childhood. There I would meet Claude McKnight and his many brothers, and begin taking care of my baby brother, Joey, along with my older sister Michelle.

It can be said that most of my early musical influence happened in Buffalo, where my father pastored a very musical church. But by 1976, it was on to Nashville, TN. Soon after I went away to highschool at Oakwood Academy. There I met Mervyn Warren and began working with him and others on many musical projects. This would lead right up to the famous bathroom rehearsal at Oakwood College during the fall of 1980, where I would once again meet up with Claude. And the rest is history!

I have always been very athletic, playing football, softball, and basketball in Buffalo and adding Ping-Pong and track by the time I reached Oakwood Academy. I still to this day love to play sports and will at any opportunity. I have also from a very young age been into bodybuilding, and now it is my mainstay if I can do nothing else.

I have always been one to work with my hands fixing, building, and tinkering with mechanics. For my 8th grade project I made a cardboard model of the "new" (and at that time unbuilt) elementary school that I was attending. It won first place. This lead to working with family and friends who were contractors. Thus, I learned the skills of hard labor in construction. While in college, I conc… Read More