MK

Marc Kinchen, a prominate name in dance music and today’s current mainstream, has successfully maintained a place in the music industry. After starting his career in the early nineties, Marc created his own record label by the name of, Area 10. He soon released, “Burning”, the track that led to his album deal with Virgin Records.

After his single success and newly signed deal, Marc went on to become one of the top dance remixers in the world. His credits include an impressive list of artists from Bette Midler, Tom Tom Club, The B-52’s, Bobby Brown and Janet Jackson. His 1993 album entitled, Surrender, featuring the singles, “Always” and “Love Changes”, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts consecutively in 1993 and 1994. Not to mention his mix for Night Crawlers selling over 3 millions copies worldwide and his work on Jodeci’s, “Freakin’ You” in which the record is still in the top playlists of today. His work also led him to produce a remix of Celine Dion’s single, “Misled”, which became the first and only #1 Billboard Dance/Club Play hit of Dion’s career.

A year later in 1995, Marc met the legendary Quincy Jones, who personally signed him to a publishing deal with Quincy Jones’ Music Publishing. Marc then moved onto produce the first single off Tevin Campbell’s self-titled album.

Not long after he relocated to Los Angeles to sign on as a music producer for Will Smith. From there he produced music for Dream Work’s 2005 hit movie, “Shark Tales” and theme music for Will Smith’s TV show, “All of Us”. In 2006, he signed another deal with music mogul Chris Stokes and began working on production for Marques Houston, Omarion and the new super group, NLT, whose album is set to release in 2008.

To date, he has worked with 702, Snoop Dogg, SWV, Jay-Z and E-40. His current credits include Ne-Yo (Rihanna, Beyonce), James Flossleroy (Jordan Sparks, Usher) and Andre Merritt (Chris Brown, Omarion).