Mark Morrison

Released last year in the UK, “RETURN OF THE MACK” hit #4 on British album chart, earned the artist four nominations for this year’s prestigious Brit Awards, and is now fast approaching the platinum mark.

Now living in London, Morrison made his first appearance on the UK singles chart in 1995 when his single, “Crazy,” shot straight into the top 20 and became a pervasive club anthem. Thus the way was paved for “Return of the Mack,” which caught fire last spring across Europe and jumped to #1 on the UK chart – where it spent two weeks during a nine week run in the top 10. In doing so, Morrison became the first black male solo artist with a UK #1 in the ’90s. The smash single – which firmly established Morrison as one of the country’s stand-out new artists and led to the subsequent top 40 gains of “Let’s Get Down” – has since gone on to cross the platinum mark in England. Also Morrison’s debut American single, “Return of the Mack” is already making its way up the Billboard “Hot 100” and R&B chart.

For Morrison, seeing “Return of the Mack” make it to the top of the UK singles chart was the ideal complement to the song’s self-assured sentiment and to the dreams he dedicated himself to realizing while serving a prison term in early 1995.

“When I wrote that song, it was all about my moving from the negative into the positive,” says Mark, reflecting on a three month sentence related to a wrong place/wrong time incident at a London club. “And that’s how it turned out. Within the space of a year, I went from the lowest point of my life to return as the mack, and move forward to what’s become the highest point of my life. Getting this album out has meant everything to me.”