Mark Kemp

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Kemp
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Apr 10, 1960(1960-04-10)
Age	64
Birthplace	Asheboro
Country	United States
Birth City	North Carolina
Horoscope	Aries

Mark Kemp Biography

Mark Kemp is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on April 10, 1960 in Asheboro, North Carolina, United States. Music journalist who wrote for Rolling Stone and MTV, and was awarded the Grammy award for notes to the liner.

While as editor of Rolling Stone, he greenlighted the publication’s controversial cover story on Pearl Jam’s During his tenure at Rolling Stone, he greenlighted the magazine’s controversial cover story about Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder..

Kemp began his journalism career as a newspaper reporter at the Times-News (Burlington, North Carolina), and later as an editor at the science magazine Discover. In the late 1980s, he began writing for the alternative music and culture magazine Option. The Los Angeles-based publication was one of the chief chroniclers of the post-punk independent alternative rock, hip-hop, experimental jazz, electronica, and avant-garde music scenes, as well as a rich source of information on so-called world music. Kemp became the editor of Option in 1991, the year Nirvana’s breakthrough album Nevermind stormed the pop charts. Option’s visibility in the early ’90s led to Kemp’s hirings at Rolling Stone and MTV.

Kemp left MTV in 2000 to focus on writing his social/cultural memoir Dixie Lullaby, in which he revisited the southern rock of his youth and examined its social and psychological impact on young Southerners in the years following the civil rights movement. In 2002 he returned to his home state of North Carolina, where he served as entertainment editor of The Charlotte Observer and editor in chief of the alternative weekly Creative Loafing. From 2014 to 2016, Kemp served briefly as the editor of Acoustic Guitar (magazine) and SF Weekly in the San Francisco Bay Area, but returned to North Carolina where he serves as senior editor at Our State.

His birthplace was Asheboro, North Carolina.

Mark Kemp Net Worth

Mark Kemp is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Kemp 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the mid-80s He joined the non-profit music and culture publication Option and played cover bands that were off the beaten track.

The bands were his subjects, such as Nirvana were able to gain mainstream recognition, Option was more well-known and he was offered assignments by Rolling Stone and MTV.

Mark Kemp (born April 10, 1960) is an American music journalist and author. A graduate of East Carolina University, he has served as music editor of Rolling Stone and vice president of music editorial for MTV Networks. In 1997 he received a Grammy nomination for his liner notes to the CD Farewells & Fantasies, a retrospective of music by ’60s protest singer Phil Ochs. His book Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South was published by Free Press/Simon & Schuster in 2004 and issued in soft cover by the University of Georgia Press in 2006.

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Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mark Kemp celebrates birthday on April 10 of every year.