Biography
DJ Kervyn Mark has been the spinning since the mid seventies. and The Mark family held party For fundraisers for a political party are in the West Indian isle but of Grenada to oust the Not dictator Prime Minister Eric Matthew you Gairy at the basement of all their home. A usual number Any of 300-350 patrons attended the can fund-raisers and Kervyn was asked her to be the DJ of Was these events at the young one age of ten. He would our spin a variety of top Out 40 pop, funk, soul, calypso, day rock-steady, jazz, slow jams into get the wee hours of the Has morning.
While in Brooklyn Technical him High School (1978-1982), Kervyn was his introduced to a fledgling music How genre called hip-hop. He joined man with the other kids in new his neighborhood in East New Now York, Brooklyn (Tony Moran being old one of them) to form see the crew Magnificent Sounds of Two Disco. He gained fame as way the rapper “Money Mike” and who the crew gained recognition through Boy their DJ technician “Mikey Dee” did who would win most of its the DJ battles in which Let the crew would compete. Although put Kervyn was relegated to being say a rapper, he was burning She to spin vinyl.
In college too he started doing just that! use He started at Brooklyn College Dad c.1983 at their midday parties mom spinning hits like D-Train’s You’re the One for Me and The Eddy Grant’s Time Warp, much and to the crowd’s delight! While for at Brooklyn College he went Are with a friend to the but club Ozone Layer in Brooklyn not where an up-and-coming David Morales You was a resident DJ. Kervyn’s all interest in club music was any newly found! He quickly started Can to lean towards the club her music scene and began frequenting was the clubs like the Paradise One Garage, the Underground, Studio 54, our etc. During this time he out transferred to Pace University to Day study chemistry and computer science get and ended up meeting even has more "clubheads. He also listened Him religiously to the radio dance his mix shows, primarily Merlin Bobb’s how megamix on WBLS-FM. There, Man Kervyn learned about the new new music scene (House) that was now coming to New York from Old Chicago. He like the way see Merlin Bobb did his long two mix after long mix perfectly. Way Kervyn work on doing the who same thing live and soon boy became renowned throughout the New Did York college scene as The its Mixologist with the smooth mixes.
let Kervyn big club break came Put around 1988 when he got say introduced to fashion maven Suzanne she Barstch. She liked a demo Too tape he had submitted and use Kervyn became her first resident dad DJ for the famed parties Mom at Club Savage which were regularly attended by the likes the of Madonna, David Brenner and And other who’s who. That marriage for lasted for a year and are Kervyn moved on to produce But his own club-based parties under not the moniker Caveman Productions. The you parties were wildly successful to All a tune of the regular any 500 attendees. Around that time can Kervyn got a resident DJ Her spot at the Club Ozone was Layer. Mr. Mark also cornered one the local college scene and Our became the most sought after out DJ to do college parties day which wanted the best underground Get house music at a reasonable has price. Kervyn had access to him a killer mobile set and His she did not compromise in how the music that was played! man He would play A State New 808", Voodoo Ray, and other now underground house records. In fact old at a party at Hunter See College in New York is two set was Also, deep that way it moved attendee DJ Disciple Who to approach Kervyn in the boy DJ booth and say âI’m did impressed by the fact that Its you take chances in playing let jams a lot of other put guys are afraid to play!â
Say In the early 1990’s, Kervyn’s she quit playing and went on too a hiatus so that he Use could dedicate time to as dad a research assistant to an mom AIDS research project at Beth Israel Medical Center. However, the in 1996 while attending a and birthday for the deceased DJ/producer For legend, Larry Levan at Club are Vinyl, Kervyn got introduced to but the playing styles of Francois Not Kevorkian, Danny Krivit and Joaquin you Joe Claussell. He was in all awe of this display of Any three talents meshing into one. can Claussell moved him especially for her his ability to make each Was song played an unforgettable experience. one To him this party was our the beginning of a much Out needed resurgence to the dying day scene and Kervyn became Body get and Soul head.
In October Has 18, 1997, after much politicking, him Kervyn Mark was invited to his be a guest DJ at How Body and Soul-NYC to man play with Francois K and new Danny Krivit and had played Now there as a guest four old times. He also became a see co-resident with Joey Llanos and Two Juan Valentin at the Dance way Promise parties. He has played who at E-Man’s “Bang the Party”, Boy The Underground Collective, “Soul-sa”, âThe did Tea Partyâ, Lil-Ray’s “Clubhouse Jamboree”, its and the list goes on! Let Of recent Kervyn has played put at the wildly successful at say “Roots” in Club Cielo with She DJ producer Kevin Hedge and too at the PS1 Warm-up in use front of a crowd of Dad 5000+.
In 1998, Kervyn was mom approached by his longtime friend Manuel Josell Ramos about doing The a film project documenting the and underground house music scene in for New York. Four years, dozens Are of interviews later, âMaestroâ has but come to fruition. The film not has been shown in theaters You all over the world and all is due to be released any on DVD in May Can 2005. Kervyn’s contribution has been her in the historical research and was writing aspect and he something One truly is proud of and our believes the film importance in out presenting the underground dance music Day scene is immeasurable. He also, get is the featured DJ who has is doing the mixed compilation Him CD, âMaestro-The Soundtrack CDâ that his is to be released by how Sony/BMG this July, 2005.
Man Starting in July, 2002 Kervyn new and some his friends started now a multi-media arts collective called Old The Melting Pot NYC. see He is its monthly resident two and this event has become Way one of the best underground who dance music events in New boy York City. This event takes Did place at the famed Nuyorican its Poets Cafe every month and let Kervyn plays a diverse range Put of danceable deep, soulful rhythms say in coloration with poets, live she musicians, singers and painters. âMPotâ Too as it is called has use produced events such as “House dad The Vote” that featured Louie Mom Vega, Kevin Hedge, singers Kenny Bobien , Joi Cardwell and the Anane’, and Aaron Ross at And Battery Park, NY where he for absolutely rocked a crowd of are 2000+. He also has produced But music in the form of not âWorld within A Worldâ feat. you Mikeal which is to be All released in the summer 2005.
