Mark Winkler

MARK WINKLER.. Mark Winkler is a platinum award winning singer/lyricist who has had his tunes covered by such artists as Dianne Reeves, Randy Crawford, Liza Minelli, Bob Dorough, Lea Salonga and Cheryl Bentyne.He has written over 350 songs,-- writing lyrics with such esteemed composers as Joe Sample, Wayne Shorter, Joshua Redman and David Benoit.He is the co-writer of the hit Off-Brodway Musical Review "Naked Boys Singing" entering it's 9th year. He is the creator and writer of "Too Old for the Chorus" which has played in Los Angeles and San Diego and Seattle. He has written some lyrics from a dog’s point of view for a new Musical Review called “Bark” iset to open this Spring off-Broadway.His new musicaL, "Play It Cool" played to full houses and got great reviews last year. It was nominated for 3 Ovation Awards and Landed on Les Spindle's Top 10 Shows in LA .Mark has a new CD called TILL I GET IT RIGHT. It features all new Winkler originals and a couple of outside tunes by Steve Allen and Ivan Linz. Here's his first YOUTUBE video from it entitled SISSIES- which talks about Truman Capote and Sissies both in and out of the closet-- plus it swings. If you like it you can go to CD BABY or AMAZON, sample more songs and buy it.Here's another video of Mark doing "When All the Lights in the Sign Worked" from his musical "Play it Cool".www.markwinklermusic.com