Mark Mothersbaugh

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Born May 18, 1950, Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950) is an American singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, book designer, and visual artist. Mothersbaugh came to fame in the late 1970s as co-founder, lead singer, and keyboardist of Devo, whose "Whip It" was a Top 20 single in the United States in 1980 and has since maintained a cult following.

Mothersbaugh is one of Devo's most popular composers. Mothersbaugh has produced music for television series, films, and video games in addition to his Devo work. Mutato Muzika, his production company, has produced music for television series, films, and video games.

He arranged the music for the 13-year run of Rugrats and three related theatrical films, most notably.

He has recorded four albums, including Insomniaks, Muzik for the Gallery, Joyeux Mutato, and The Most Effective Healing Muzik in the Entire World.

He was named in BMI Film and TV Awards in 2004 for his contributions to film and television music.

Mothersbaugh's lifelong interest in developing multimedia art works culminated in gallery exhibitions of items ranging from his "Beautiful Mutants" photographic series, postcard diaries, artwork rugs, sculptures, and musical instruments made from salvaged organ pipes and bird vocalizations in 2008.

He has married twice and is the father of two adopted children.

Early years

Mark Allen Mothersbaugh was born in Akron, Ohio, on May 18, 1950. Mary Margaret ("Mig") and Robert Mothersbaugh, Sr., are his parents. He grew up with two younger brothers, Bob and Jim, both musicians, and two sisters, Amy and Susan, and graduated from Woodridge High School in Peninsula, Ohio. Although Jim's involvement in the band was brief, he appeared in early Devo films and fan shows as the character General Boy and his brothers, although the band was short, appearing only on several early demos.

Personal life

Mothersbaugh began wearing glasses to correct his severe myopia and astigmatism, long before he was legally blind. He became involved in creating his own unique eyewear for use in Devo shows over the years. He preferred a set of stainless steel frames made by a Los Angeles store named LA Eyeworks, and claims he bought as many pairs as he could find because fans would break or steal items. Mothersbaugh has created his own branded frames for sale, made of beryllium with a stainless steel chrome finish, in three different styles as of 2015. According to the Baumvision press release, the unisex model "Francesca" is named for one of Mothersbaugh's pug dogs, which is also named Frank.

He has been married twice. Nancye Ferguson, his first wife, was seen briefly in the 1999 superhero comedy film Mysterious Men. Anita Greenspan, the film production company Greenspan Kohan Management with Neil Kohan, is his current wife. Since Greenspan learned that the female children were abandoned in China because of their gender, the pair have two daughters who have been adopted.

Mothersbaugh, a song enthusiast and connoisseur of rare or vintage musical styles, is a fan of song poems and rare or vintage musical styles. Raymond Scott's Electronium is his owner (although it is currently inactive).

In May 2020, Mothersbaugh contracted COVID 19 and was put on a ventilator in an intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for 18 days. Mothersbaugh recalled that he "never died" of the disease in August and was in a delusional state when infected, and he came to the conclusion that he had been hospitalized after being struck by a brick in Little Tokyo, and had regularly pleaded with his family members to look for his perpetrators. He described persistent neuropathic pain as a result of the illness.

Mothersbaugh was once a member of the Church of the SubGenius.

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Career

Mothersbaugh attended Kent State University as an art student, where he met Devo co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis. Lewis and Casale's friend Jeffrey Miller was killed by Ohio National Guardsmen on university grounds early in what became known as the Kent State shootings. Mothersbaugh joined them, developing the infamous Jocko-Homo pamphlet (the basis for the song "Jocko Homo") as a result of early post-structuralist theories and oddball arcana. When the trio first began to play music as Devo, this association came to an end.

Warner Bros. dropped Devo following the commercial failure of their sixth studio album Shout. Soon after, singer Alan Myers left the band, causing the remaining band members to scrap the plans for a Shout video LP and a tour.

Devo returned with new drummer David Kendrick, formerly of Sparks, to replace Myers. On Enigma, they produced the albums Total Devo (1988) and Smooth Noodle Maps (1990), a soundtrack for the flop horror film Slaughterhouse Rock starring Toni Basil.

In 1991, Devo appeared at a devolving stage and appeared twice before breaking up. Except for Bob Mothersbaugh, members of Devo appeared in the film The Spirit of '76 around this time. Mark Mothersbaugh founded Mutato Muzika, a commercial music recording studio, in 1989. Bob Mothersbaugh was also involved.

Devo performed on the Devo 2.0 project in 2006: a group of youth entertainers was assembled to re-record Devo songs. "Devo recently completed Devo 2.0, which includes old songs as well as two new ones with vocals provided by children," the Akron Beacon Journal reported. DEV2.0, the company's debut CD/DVD set, was released on March 14, 2006. Any of the songs' lyrics were changed for family-friendly airplay, which the band has argued to be a play on the band's insensitivity of the messages of their classic hits. The possibility of the band performing in the studio eventually leads to the release of a new Devo album, according to Mothersbaugh. The album, Something for Everybody, was eventually released in June 2010, followed by a 12" single of "Fresh"/"What We Do."

During Moogfest 2010, Devo received the first Moog Innovator Award in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 29, 2010. The award aims to honor "pioneering artists whose genre-defying work exemplifies Bob Moog's fresh, youthful spirit." Devo had intended to perform at Moogfest but Mothersbaugh's hand was injured three days before. Gerald Casale and Margaret Casale performed "Girl U Want" and "Beautiful World" at the Austin, Texas, band The Octopus Project, rather than the intended audience.

Mothersbaugh and other Devo workers were involved in the 1989 edition Visiting Kids, which culminated in the release of a self-titled EP on the New Rose label in 1990. Nancye Ferguson, Derek Ferguson, Jr., as well as David Kendrick, Bob Mothersbaugh, and Bob's daughter Alex Mothersbaugh were among the group's featured children. Mothersbaugh co-wrote some of the songs and produced the album with Bob Casale. For the song "Trilobites," a promotional video was shot. Visiting Kids appeared on the soundtrack to the film Rockula, as well as the Late Show with David Letterman.

Mothersbaugh, Devo, has had a fruitful career writing musical scores for film and television. He has worked with filmmaker Wes Anderson extensively, directing four of his feature films (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou). He created The Lego Movie and Thor Ragnarok.

His music has been a staple of children's television programs like Rugrats, Beakman's World, Santo Bugito, and Clifford the Big Red Dog. He wrote the original Felix the Cat video when it was released to Broadway Video, some songs for Pee-wee's Playhouse in 1990, and the Super Mario World TV series for DIC Entertainment in 1991. Chuckie Finster on Rugrats was based on him. Heroes & Villains (2000), a soundtrack album with music inspired by The Powerpuff Girls, was produced by Bob Casale and Bob Casale. Mothersbaugh had intended to be the show's chief composer, but creator Craig McCracken, who despite being a Devo devotee, was concerned that his cartoon would be dismissed if a big film came to Mothersbaugh's production company.

Mothersbaugh produces music for video games, including Sony's Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter (both music scores were designed by Josh Mancell) and EA Games' The Sims 2. Mutato Muzika, the music production company that he formed with several other Devo former residents, including Bob Mothersbaugh, is a favorite performer on this tour. Ratchet & Clank's mother was composing the original score, but Rift Apart is the original work by Mothersbaugh.

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Mothersbaugh appeared on an episode of The Aquabats in 2013. A flashback from Yo Gabba Gabba's creators of "Super Show!," an action-comedy movie. Jimmy the Robot, a Devo-influenced band, plays Jimmy the Robot, the eccentric scientist father of one of the main characters.

Mothersbaugh and Casale have performed for other artists, including Toni Basil.

Mothersbaugh has also excelled as a visual artist. "I've been to over 150 art gallery shows in the last 20 years," Mothersbaugh said in November 2014.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver), a Denver museum of Contemporary Art, announced a retrospective exhibition on February 6, 2014, bringing together the first comprehensive exhibition of Mothersbaugh's art and music. The touring exhibition was followed by a book, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, which was published by Princeton Architectural Press. In 2015, 50 examples of postcard art from Myopia were published in a postcard book titled Mark Mothersbaugh: Collected Facts & Lies.

On the Nick Jr. television show Yo Gabba Gabba, Mothersbaugh hosted a drawing segment. Children are taught how to draw simple pictures by Mark's Magic Pictures. At the end of the segment, the photos often come alive by animation.

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