Amber Mark

Amber Mark weaves an intricate and worldly strain of R&B that draws on influences stretching from bossa nova through grunge, all absorbed across a roaming childhood and years of open-eared exploration. She issued her debut commercial single in 2016. Over the following two years she delivered the EPs 3:33am and Conexão, the first confronting the loss of her mother and the second exploring a readiness for deeper personal bonds. Following several standalone tracks and guest spots, among them a featured role on Paul Woolford’s U.K. hit “Heat,” she unveiled her full-length debut Three Dimensions Deep in 2022, an album notable for its emotional depth and sonic detail. In 2024 she returned with the uplifting single “Comin’ Around Again.”

Although born in Tennessee to a German mother and Jamaican father, Mark spent her early years moving between various American states, India, and Germany. She began writing and performing while still in high school. Her introduction to listeners came in 2016 via the SoundCloud release of “S P A C E,” quickly followed by “Monsoon,” which listed her late mother, Mia (who passed in 2013), as featured vocalist and co-writer. The seven-track 3:33am EP, issued in May 2017 on PMR and Virgin EMI, processed the grief surrounding that loss. Later in 2018 she released the four-song Conexão EP, highlighted by “Love Me Right” and a cover of Sade’s “Love Is Stronger Than Pride” that carried the personal approval of Sade Adu. Around the same period she co-wrote and supplied lead vocals for Chromeo’s post-disco cut “Just Friends,” and the parent album Head Over Heels earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.

Over the next few years she continued to scatter individual tracks and featured appearances, including the warmly received “Mixer,” a reinterpretation of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box,” and the house collaboration “Heat” with Paul Woolford that reached number 61 on the U.K. chart. After several advance singles, Three Dimensions Deep appeared in January 2022 as her first studio album. While addressing themes of loss, heartbreak, and self-doubt, it also contained buoyant moments such as “Foreign Things” and “Worth It.” Though nearly a dozen additional producers contributed, Mark handled the majority of the production herself alongside Julian Bunetta. She resurfaced in 2024 with “Comin’ Around Again,” another joint effort with Bunetta.