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Mark Adams is a singer/songwriter originally from Nebraska. He is best known for his piano style, which is similar to Jerry Lee Lewis, Ben Folds and Bruce Hornsby.

Adams was born and raised in Sidney, Nebraska. He was noted as musically gifted by his parents as early as age three when he played the National Anthem by ear on their home piano, after he heard it at a local high school basketball game.

Originally a guitar player, Adams played as the guitarist and singer for the Lincoln-based group, Genuine Imitation, while he attended music school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This band would play regularly at Lincoln based bars and lasted for a little over three years.

In 2003, Adams started recording solo acoustic tracks in his basement and releasing recordings on Myspace under the surname “Doc Adams.” This nickname was given by his classmates after they found out Adams originally was majored in Pre-medicine to be a pediatrician, but changed at the last minute to pursue a music degree. Adams would eventually take these recordings and over a six month period re-record and add to the songs, which in 2004 became his first official local released album, “A Long Road To Nowhere.” Although fans enjoyed the recordings, Adams never took much pride in them. After the short tour to promote this album, he dropped the nickname, and began performing as Mark Adams.

Adams met solo guitarist Stewart John in 2004, and they became close friends quickly. Adams and John began writing music together and eventually formed the acoustic guitar-duo fronted band, Secondhand Ransom. This group was very popular in the underground music scene in Lincoln, despite the many drummers that went through the group. In the summer of 2005, Adams worked construction and was in a work-related accident and injured his leg. Unable to sleep, he played piano most nights working on his piano skills. Later that year, Adams and John decided to each go solo again, but remained close friends – each performing in each other’s projects.

In 2006, Adams moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, spending a year away from the performance spotlight and taught vocal music at the local high school. During this year, he wrote many new songs, which eventually would be on his first nationally released album.

Adams moved back to Nebraska in 2007 and rejoined Stewart John as his piano player in The Stewart John Band. In 2009, John recorded his nationally released solo blues album, “On The Inside,” with band members Tim Levan Miller, Daniel Christian and Adams. After a brief tour to support this project, Adams moved to Wyoming to become a bear trapper.

In 2010, Adams would reunite with Miller and John for Miller’s solo self-titled debut EP. Also, Adams began writing string arrangements for Daniel Christian, one of which (Autumn Coming Down) made the final cut of Christian second nationally recorded album, “Hold Your Breath.”

In April of 2010, Adams went into a recording studio with the original members of the Stewart John Band, and recorded his (at the time) unnamed project. The recording took only four days and three nights. That next July, Adams’ album “All The Way Let Go,” was released nationally on iTunes, CD Baby and Amazon.com.

As Adams’ career continues to grow after this release, he continues to perform both solo and with other artists around the country.