member profiles

Mark Lanoue is a product of the New Jersey, Florida, and Mississippi music scenes. After attending the Musicians Institute of Technology in Hollywood, he returned to New Jersey and worked as a studio musician. He joined forces with Dean Fasano (Message, Richie Sambora group, Jon Bon Jovi, and Prophet) to write and record. As a powerful and dynamic vocalist and performer, his current bands and projects include KICK THE WICKED, FICTION SYXX and WICKED TRIBUTES BY KICK THE WICKED!

Mark Maryanovich is an award-winning photographer. Mark's images stand out with a distinct quality created by a singular style. He's equally at home snapping pictures of major rock stars as he is doing branding photography and business portraits. According to Mark, “I realized early on that the one thing I’m good at is being able to capture and bring out the best in people through photographs. When I do this, and the images make a difference in someone’s life, that to me is true success.”

Mark Purnell is a writer, investor and musician living in New York City. His writing has recently appeared in The Molotov Cocktail and he is currently working on his debut novel. Mark sings, writes and plays piano in the indie rock band MAKAR with his partner in all things, Andrea DeAngelis. MAKAR's spontaneous, blues-infused songs tap into a particular vein of optimism and melancholy, responding to our fractured modern culture with an eclectic and literate blend of indie rock.

Mark Roos is an Award winning composer for film, television and advertising. He has composed for Amazon Prime’s Trending Crimes, American Pickers, Catfish, The Kardashians, Snapped, Murder One, Microsoft XBox and Pixar. Mark has worked with some of entertainment’s leading directors on a variety of projects in just about every medium there is, including computer games, full-feature and documentary films, websites, radio, television shows, commercials and advertising, and custom music production. Mark serves on the Board of The Society of Composers & Lyricists

New Jersey-born singer/songwriter Marla Lewis grew up listening to Ella Fitzgerald, big band, folk music from around the world, the Beatles, Laura Nyro, Carole King, James Taylor, Michael Franks, and Phoebe Snow, to name a few. For 25 years as an elementary school teacher, she began writing educational and fun songs for children. One of them, "Leap of Faith," co-written with Nancy Schimmel, appeared on a GRAMMY-winning children's album in 2011, entitled ALL ABOUT BULLIES...BIG AND SMALL.