20 Facts About Mark Hart

Mark Hart was born on July 2,1953 in Fort Scott, Kansas and grew up there.

Mark Hart has an older brother, Kelly, and an older sister, Millicent.

Mark Hart studied classical music at college, and then worked as a full-time session musician with varied artists.

Mark Hart provided vocals, guitar and keyboards - other members were Steve Dudas on guitar, Randy Foote on percussion and backing vocals, Rick Moors on bass guitar and Billy Thomas on drums and backing vocals.

Mark Hart began his association with British rock band Supertramp in 1986, initially as a studio and touring musician, taking on the vocal and keyboard parts previously done by Roger Hodgson.

Mark Hart provided guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals for their album, Free as a Bird, which was issued in October 1987.

Mark Hart again participated on the ensuing tour, which was recorded on the album Live '88.

Mark Hart shared the same manager as pop-rockers Crowded House, who suggested he fill in for their keyboardist Eddie Rayner with session work for the band after they experienced difficulties working together.

In 1991 Mark Hart contributed to Woodface as a session musician, later joining the band as a touring member when Tim Finn left.

In 1993 Mark Hart was credited as a full member for Together Alone.

Mark Hart stayed with the band after founding drummer Paul Hester left, and is seen along with the group's founders Neil Finn and Nick Seymour in the photographs from the sleeve for Recurring Dream, the 1996 greatest hits album.

Mark Hart played with the band during their farewell concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in November 1996, known as Farewell to the World.

In 1993 Mark Hart contributed to the debut album, Hang Out Your Poetry, by Ceremony, providing electric guitar, harmonium, Mellotron, organ, Hammond organ, piano, backing vocals, Wurlitzer and co-composing tracks.

Mark Hart later joined Neil Finn on stage for some of Finn's solo concerts supporting his debut solo album Try Whistling This in 1998.

In 2001 Mark Hart released his debut solo album Nada Sonata.

Mark Hart has scored the motion pictures Life Among the Cannibals and Mockingbird Don't Sing both directed by Harry Bromley Davenport.

However, Mark Hart kept busy as a member of Ringo Starr's backing band in the 2000s.

Mark Hart contributed keyboards and piano to the 2006 debut album by Australian band Howling Bells.

Supertramp was then scheduled for a European tour in 2015, in which Mark Hart was to have taken part, but the entire tour was cancelled due to illness on the part of lead singer Rick Davies.

Shortly after it was announced that Crowded House would resume operations and perform at Byron Bay Bluesfest in 2020, Mark Hart announced via his Twitter account that Neil Finn had chosen not to include him in the band anymore.