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Grammy Award Winner Marc Cohn was born July 5, 1959, the youngest of four boys. He grew up in Cleveland, where he began playing guitar in grade school. Through the local rock radio stations, Marc was in¬troduced to the music of Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Jackson Browne, all of whom remain among his most enduring influences.

Cohn attended Oberlin College, where he taught himself piano and later worked straight jobs, played clubs and coffee houses, wrote songs and sang demos for songwriting legends like Leiber and Stoller and Jimmy Webb. After moving to New York, he led a successful 14-piece R&B band called The Supreme Court. “Almost everything I did from the time I was sixteen, was geared towards getting a record deal.”

A chance encounter in an Mississippi honky tonk with a 70-year-old black pianist and singer named Muriel Davis Wilkins inspired the song that launched Marc Cohn’s career. “Walking in Memphis” became the breakout hit from Marc’s self-titled Atlantic debut album.

Marc's work includes notable guest appearances by David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Bonnie Raitt.

Cohn is excited to be touring with a new album out. He hopes that Join the Parade is a set of songs that people not only want to hear, but it is in truth, a set of songs that people need to hear.

"Walkin In Memphis"