Mark Hoppus

At 52 years old, Mark Hoppus has this physical status:

Mark Allan Hoppus (born March 15, 1972) is an American musician, singer, guitarist, record producer, and former television presenter best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band blink-182, as well as part of the synth-pop duo Simple Creatures with All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth. Hoppus spent his youth in Ridgecrest, California, as they divorced when he was in third grade.

In junior high, he became interested in skateboarding and punk rock, and his father gave him a bass guitar at the age of 15.

Hoppus' uncle introduced him to Tom DeLonge in 1992, and the band formed Blink-182, which later joined drummer Scott Raynor.

Hoppus was the last remaining original member of the group in 2015. Before signing to major label MCA to co-distribute their sophomore effort, 1997's Dude Ranch, which featured the Hoppus-penned hit "Dammit," Blink-182 performed several rock songs and toured extensively.

The trio formed Enema of the State (1999), which launched the band into multiplatinum success after replacing Raynor with Travis Barker.

Two more albums followed, including the heavier Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001) and the more experimental Untitled Album (2003), shortly before the band split in 2005 due to internal turmoil.

Hoppus began playing with Barker in +44 in the late 2000s.

Blink-182 was reunited in 2009 and continues to tour the world. Hoppus has had many success outside of his musical career, including Idot Pilot, New Found Glory, The Matches, and PAWS.

Hi My Name is Mark is Mark's founder, who has worked with Atticus and Macbeth Footwear, as well as a clothing line.

Hoppus hosted a weekly podcast from 2005 to 2006, which revived in 2015, and Hoppus on Music hosted his own television talk show, Hoppus on Music, from 2010 to 2012 on Fuse.

Early life

Hoppus was born near Washington, D.C., before his family settled in Ridgecrest, California, where he later described as "geniuses, researchers, and physicists, and then just complete strung-out methamphetamine heads." Aaron and Lempi Orrenmaa, his maternal grandparents, were Finnish immigrants from Laihia. Tex, his father, who lived in Ridgecrest, worked for the US Department of Defense, establishing missiles and bombs for the town's Navy testing center. Hoppus says he was "pretty mellow" until his parents divorced when he was eight years old, causing him to have a "drastic, unsettling effect." "I always wondered behind closed doors when my parents argued." When I was seven years old, I recall sitting outside my parents' house and hearing the dulled voice of rage behind the door. It bothered me a lot." He and his father spent two years in Monterey, Sibling Anne's, before moving to Monterey. His father was often not enrolled in college, earning a postgraduate degree. "I] was living by myself in the fifth grade," he later described his childhood as lonely. Billy Joel, John and Billy Joel's father introduced him to The Beatles, Elton John, and Billy Joel.

Hoppus says he appeared to be "pretty straight" until junior high, when he first started skateboarding and listening to punk rock. He spent his first two years in Fairfax, Virginia, attending Annandale High School in his second year; he earned his first bass guitar during this time and attended his first concert, They Might Be Giants, at the 9:30 Club shortly before his 16th birthday. "I didn't know where I should stand or what I should do," he said, so my companions and I smoked for the first time, trying to be as cool as we could. We must have looked like idiots," says the narrator. He received his first bass (a Mako) as a birthday gift from his father, who bought it at a local music store in Annandale. He earned money for a set of amplifiers by assisting him in painting his house. Hoppus never took bass lessons, instead teaching himself by playing in bands like the Descendents, The Cure, and Bad Religion. He has remarked that Descendents' "Silly Girl" was the "song that made [him] fall in love with punk rock music [that] changed [his] life forever." He borrowed a cassette tape of The Cure's album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me From His Friend Wendy Franklin the summer after junior high school, and was greeted with the song "Just Like Heaven."

"This all went over exceedingly well with the students and workers in the tiny desert town where I grew up." Hoppus began dressing like Cure frontman Robert Smith, donning eyeliner and "occasionally bright red lipstick" to his high school classes; he later gushed, "This all went over exceedingly well." He found solace in the music of both The Cure and The Smiths as a child. He performed by himself and performed in the band Pier 69, mainly covering songs from The Cure, and attended a live demo with The Attic Children in 1988, which featured cover art of The Cure songs. In 1989, the Hoppus returned to Ridgecrest High School, where they completed high school at Burroughs High School. A friend robbed his mother's car in the middle of the night to pick him up; the two will then venture out to the desert and burn trees and any other finds they could find.

He joined a band called All Things He formed with two friends in 1990, covering songs by Descendents, Social Distortion, and Bad Religion, as well as writing original punk numbers. The group mainly appeared at friend's and bonfires, and it appeared at Oasis, the local music venue. Hoppus left Ridgecrest in 1992 to attend college and work at a San Diego music store. He continued playing with All Things and then returned to weekends. His boss became suspicious of his weekend activities after Hoppus told him he worked with mentally impaired children in Ridgecrest and refused to give him any time off on weekends. His "short-lived attempt" at college, studying at California State University, San Marcos, revolved around plans to become an English teacher. He recalls he "loved" college and his motivation for becoming a teacher, but educational reform is on the agenda. He dropped out early in the 1990s after "things started to take off with Blink-182" and spent time with his mother during the band's early years. Hoppus' mother has always supported his decision to drop out of college and tour with Blink-182; however, he says his dad's "more realistic" -- "have something to fall back on." "I'm really fortunate that my mother was always there for me," Hoppus said.

Personal life

In August 1999, Hoppus first met former MTV talent executive Skye Everly at a rehearsal for "All the Little Things"'s music video, and the pair later married on December 2, 2000. She initially declined to date Hoppus in a 2004 interview. "Tom [DeLonge] used to embarrass me," he said. If there was a girl he'd like to talk to, he'd say, 'Hey, you wanna go on a date with Mark?' Skye, my wife, looked at me, said, 'No.' That's how it all started." Jack, the family's son, was born in 2002.

Hoppus stands 6 foot (2.88 m) tall. In 2004, he declared that he favours the Libertarian Party. "To me, it means to respect others and let them do their own thing," he said. The government is here to help people but not control them." In a 2000 Rolling Stone article, he said he "pray[s] every night" and that "It's amazing to me" that one thing is correct." [...] Drawing lines over something that no one of us on earth could possibly comprehend seems to be a waste of time.'

Hoppus and his family were relocated to London's Mayfair neighborhood in 2011, when blink-182 were working on their sixth album, Neighborhoods. They will stay in London for another three years until 2014, when they migrated to Beverly Hills, California, in Los Angeles. He loved jogging in the city's parks and became a Chelsea FC fan. Hoppus is also a fan of the Los Angeles Rams.

Hoppus revealed on June 23, 2021, that he was receiving chemotherapy after mistakenly posting a snapshot of himself under chemotherapy treatment on his public Instagram Story. He revealed on July 11 that he was suffering stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Hoppus announced on September 29 that he had been cancer-free and that he would be tested every six months if the disease returned.

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Music career

Hoppus was reunited with his sister Anne Hoppus, who had expressed his desire to be in a band after heading to San Diego in 1992. Anne attended Rancho Bernardo High School and became a summer buddy with new student Tom DeLonge. Anne DeLonge, a local musician, and Hoppus and DeLonge began playing music in DeLonge's garage in August 1992. Hoppus soared to the top of a streetlight outside of DeLonge's house, but he broke both ankles on the way down, resulting in several weeks of crutches. DeLonge recalled the meeting in 2000: "We were naked, doing strange stuff when we first met Mark." We were up skateboarding until the late hours of the morning, antagonizing security guards, and we were simply having fun." DeLonge recruited Scott Raynor from Poway to play in the new band's nickname blink.

Hoppus and his girlfriend were living in a basement apartment at the time, barely scraping together funds to pay rent. Hoppus shopped out and bought his first commercial gear, a new amp and bass cabinet, with money in savings. He came home and his mom began to scream with him, angry that he spent money on something they did not need. "I just kept reminding her that this was what mattered to me, this was my life," Hoppus recalled. She begged him to make a decision between the band and her, which resulted in Hoppus' departure shortly after its formation. DeLonge told Hoppus that he had borrowed a four track recorder from a friend and was planning to record a demo tape, which led to Hoppus' disbanding with his girlfriend and returning to the band. Flyswatter, a collection of original songs and punk covers, was recorded in Raynor's bedroom and sold the band for the first time. Over the course of 1993, three more demos were recorded, and the band's irreverent live show at local all-ages venue SOMA, which alerted local independent label Cargo Music. Cargo agreed to a trial model, and Hoppus was the only one to sign the deal as DeLonge was at work and Raynor was still a teenager. During this period, Hoppus lived at his mother's house in San Diego, where the band will perform cassette demos and the entire family would fold cassette inserts. Raynor, whose parents immigrated to Reno, Nevada, in summer 1994, stayed with Hoppus.

Cheshire Cat (1995), Blink's first album, was a good seller for the independent band and would eventually be considered a hero in the skate punk scene. The band formed in 1995 on their first national tour, which extended as far as the East Coast. With Unwritten Law, Sprung Monkey, and 7 Seconds, the band embarked on the GoodTimes tour. With indie releases and an endless series of appearances and festivals, the band gradually developed a young, devoted fanbase. MCA Records joined the band in 1996 and will co-distribute their next release, Dude Ranch, the band's sophomore attempt. While the band toured on the Vans Warped Tour, Hoppus penned the song's lead single, "Dammit," which became a national rock radio hit single.

Hoppus became increasingly lonely on these tours, with no other band members on the tour, as some other band members did. The lengthy schedule created tensions within the band, who would fire Raynor in 1998 under unethical circumstances that were never fully explained. The trio, with new drummer Travis Barker behind the kit, debuted their band's career and launched Enema of the State, launching the band's career into the "stratosphere of pop music" and establishing them as the best pop punk act of the period, with producer Jerry Finn and John Finn as the band's first pop punk act of the decade. "What's My Age Again?" Three singles were blasted from the charts. The radio show "All the Little Things" and "Adam's Song" both became Top 40 radio in influence and saw major commercial success. Hoppus married in 2000 (see Personal life), right before the band's long-awaited sequel, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, which was released in 2001). Hoppus felt confident creatively, but DeLonge, a post-hardcore group project, decided against it, beginning Box Car Racer, a post-hardcore side project to try out concepts that were otherwise unsuitable for blinking.

Hoppus was betrayed (Barker was also in Box Car Racer), and a split between Hoppus and DeLonge developed that would go into the band's future. All of the members had become fathers (or, in the case of Barker, becoming one) and the trio took a darker, more "mature" route with their untitled fifth studio album, infusing experimentalist elements into their usual pop punk sound partially inspired by Box Car Racer. Unresolved feelings from the project's inception in late 2004, when the band began to disagree about their future and recording process. Hoppus was greatly affected by the blink-182 break in February 2005: "I had no idea what to do." I had such a loss of identity and purpose after blink broke down. "I had a feeling of void" in the beginning. Hoppus began to work on Barker's kitchen, even more sober, electronic demos. He also started producing, working with Motion City Soundtrack to record Commit This to Memory (2005). Hoppus and Barker purchased a studio together in October 2005, where they would perform as a full band to expand upon those electronic demos, which culminated in the release of +44's When Your Heart Stops Beating (2006).

According to all accounts, the album did poorly and received mixed praise in the music press. Hoppus and Barker continued touring on the Honda Civic Tour and began working on their second +44 album. Hoppus was greatly affected by the death of friend and producer Jerry Finn in August 2008, who described Finn as a lifelong friend and mentor. Barker and his colleague Adam Goldstein (aka DJ AM) were injured in a plane crash that killed four people in the next month, leaving Barker and Goldstein as the only survivors. Hoppus jumped from a plane to the burn unit immediately, and DeLonge reconnected with the pair under the tragic circumstances. When the band returned to the studio for a day, past acrimony vanished with near-immediacy. "The events of the last two months supersede everything that had existed before," Hoppus wrote about these experiences. "Life is too short." The band's official website was updated in February 2009 with the following line: "To put it simply, We're back." We're talking about the back of our times. We started where we left off and then some. I'm in the studio recording and recording a new album. Already planning to travel around the world. Friendships were revived. We're 17 years old in our history."

On the reunion tour, the band reconnected musically and emotionally, but the band was also "on eggshells" throughout the recording of their comeback album. In comparison to each member's cramming schedules, the delay was due to the band's decision to work – in bits and pieces, alone and together in a pair of California studios. The band struggled to record juggling personal priorities; in the case of Hoppus, his latest television show Hoppus on Music, the band's new television show Hoppus on Music sent him to New York once a week. Hoppus and his family were released in London late in the recording process, adding to the confusion. Neighborhoods (2011), the band's comeback album, debuted high but undersold brand recognition, and Blink-182 parted with Interscope Records in 2012, and the EP Dogs Eating Dogs will be released separately.

Barker did not attend the tour of Australia in February 2013, and Bad Religion's Brooks Wackerman was substituted in for him). In September 2013, the band toured the United States, where they would begin writing songs for their seventh studio album. Hoppus told Kerrang: "We're planning to go into the studio next year [and have the] album out in late spring/early summer." Hoppus began recording songs with frequent engineer and producer Chris Holmes, which the pair intend to release by the end of the year. In August 2013, Hoppus wrote, "We have seven or eight songs in various states of completion." "I haven't chosen a name [for the project] yet; we still have to figure it out." It's like a guitar mixed with electronics... At this point, "today" is the most significant. On the tracks, Hoppus will perform lead vocals with Holmes. Founded on April 25, 2014, Hoppus revealed that the band's name, Nothing and Nobody, was revealed on Twitter. In the "not-too-distant future," their first album is expected to be released.

blink-182 appeared in three California shows in 2015. Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio was in charge of the band's departure, Tom DeLonge. It was the first time Hoppus performed under the name "blink-182" without Tom DeLonge by his side. The shows were held on March 18, March 20, and March 22. Skiba was later hired full time by Hoppus, and blink-182 have since released two albums with him, including California's 2016 and 2019's Nine.

Hoppus has appeared at Emo Nite in Los Angeles on numerous occasions from 2015 to 2017.

Hoppus' Hi My Name Is Mark (stylized as "HiMyNameIsMark"), a non-musical venture, was launched in July 2013.

Mark revealed on January 24, 2019, he was forming Simple Creatures, a new group with Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low. In January, "Drug," their first album, and Strange Love, their first EP, were released on March 29, 2019. Everything Opposite, the band's second EP, was released on October 11, 2019.

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