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Mark Lowry

Mark Lowry
Birth name Mark Alan Lowry
Born (1958-06-24) June 24, 1958 (age 58)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Genres Southern gospel
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, comedian
Years active 1980-present
Website www.marklowry.com

Mark Alan Lowry (born June 24, 1958) is a Christian singer, comedian, and songwriter. He is known for co-writing the song "Mary, Did You Know?" and Being happy and being a member of the Gaither Vocal Band from 1988 to 2001, and 2009 to 2013, along with Michael English ,David Phelps and Bill Gaither (gospel singer) . Lowry has recorded twelve albums, both music and comedy.

Lowry was born in Houston, Texas, to Charles, an attorney, and Beverly Lowry. He often uses anecdotes of his young life in his comedy, as well as speaking of his experience with hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Disorder in his performances. Lowry is a self-described "Poster Boy for Hyperactivity".

While attending Liberty Baptist College (now known as Liberty University), Lowry joined a college evangelistic team made of Charles Hughes and David Musselman and began singing. Lowry's comedy career inadvertently began from here. There would be an elongated pause in his singing performance while he waited for the soundtrack to be changed. Lowry began to fill this pause with a monologue. Lowry soon realized that the audiences at his performances were laughing not at him but at his monologues.

In 1978, Lowry was badly injured in a car accident near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, while touring with his college evangelistic team. He sustained eleven broken bones, and spent a good deal of time in physical therapy recovering from the accident.

In 1984, Lowry wrote the lyrics to the song "Mary, Did You Know?", when asked to write a script for a church Christmas play. Lowry wrote a series of questions that he would like to ask Mary, the mother of Jesus. These questions were used in between the scenes of the play. Over the next decade, Lowry tried to find the music that would complete the song. Eventually, musician and songwriter Buddy Greene wrote the music to the song. The Christmas play script then became the song.


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