Mark Tremonti

Mark Tremonti is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as a founding member of the multi-platinum-selling hard rock bands Creed and Alter Bridge. A versatile and virtuosic guitar player, Tremonti has collaborated with many artists, including Sevendust, Larry the Cable Guy, Bury Your Dead, and Michael Angelo Batio. In 2011, he formed the thrash and melodic speed metal-influenced solo project Tremonti. Since debuting in 2012 with All I Was, the band has issued several acclaimed studio efforts, including the 2018 sci-fi concept album A Dying Machine. In 2022, Tremonti released the charity-driven covers LP Mark Tremonti Sings Frank Sinatra. The holiday effort Christmas Classics Old & New appeared in 2023. Born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 18, 1974, Tremonti started Creed in 1995 with singer Scott Stapp. Joined by bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips, the band recorded their first album, 1997's My Own Prison, which was certified six-times platinum; their 1999 follow-up, Human Clay, fared even better, with massive hit singles such as "Higher" and "With Arms Wide Open" (which won them a Grammy Award in 2001), pushing the record to diamond and 11-times-platinum status. A third album, Weathered, followed in 2001, but tensions between Stapp and Tremonti grew and Creed disbanded in 2004. With Stapp embarking on a solo career, the remaining Creed members formed Alter Bridge with Mayfield Four singer Myles Kennedy and released several albums that were close in sound to their former band. When Creed reunited in 2009, Tremonti alternated his time between both groups. Three years later, Tremonti recorded his first solo album, All I Was, which leaned hard into early Metallica-style thrash metal. 2015's Cauterize, his sophomore solo outing, and 2016's Dust, were recorded at the same time, and featured bass work from Wolfgang Van Halen. Two years later, Tremonti issued A Dying Machine, an ambitious sci-fi concept album that was accompanied by a novel of the same name co-written with author John Shirley. 2022 saw the release of Mark Tremonti Sings Frank Sinatra, a set of Old Blue Eyes covers with all proceeds going to the National Down Syndrome Society. 2023's Christmas Classics Old & New saw Tremonti deliver a set of holiday standards and an original composition, the reflective "Christmas Morning."
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