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Welcome to  Marianne Velvart's songs, lyrics, poetry and stories.
I was born and raised by grandparents in Budapest, Hungary. I came to live in the South East of London at the age of 12 and at 13 picked up my first guitar. A wealth of music and poetry came out of an otherwise dysfunctional teenage wrecked by a catastrophic home-life. Marianne Velvart 
The band recorded a track called ‘November for a prog compilation which went John the Baptist-like before the album of the same name. Another recording of theirs appeared on the tribute CD to the late Geoff Mann, followed by a satirical album, brainchild of Marc Catley and the full studio ‘concept' album /CD "November", released on Plankton Records in 1994. I left the band in 1996 to pursue solo work from which a three track demo flowered and died through lack of management, act or non-act of God or ‘other' take your pick.
A proposal from Rick Wakeman in 1997 to be signed to his record label "Hope" was heady at first, but ultimately gutting when it crashed through the label's financial debacle. Since the year 2000 I have not played music in public, but produced a (second) collection of poetry and prose titled ‘Songs from the abyss of the heart birthing beauty'. Given a somewhat crushed attitude to my past, musical incarnation, I've had nothing to do with my website till now. With respect to the people who bravely acted on my behalf to this end, I apologise for some incorrect information formerly published on my web-page. I am presently writing a book and intend to put out some of my poetry and lyrics in which I continue to believe. If you find my three tracks –‘On the rooftops, Shadow boxing and Walking on the wall' to your liking, give me some feedback and I may look up from my epic book (currently being written) and think about doing something useful with my former body of work. I'd describe my music as jazz-funk-blues-rock-latin with dense vocal harmony work. My lyrics tend towards the deep dark chambers of heart and soul. 
Publications Progressive Rock Archives 1992-1996 (Paley's Watch) PALEY’S WATCH was a Christian Prog Band formed in 1992 by Marc CATLEY (classical guitar, wobbly guitars, vocals) (collaborator with Geoff MANN, ex: TWELFTH NIGHT), Duncan PARSONS (drums, keys, guitars, mandolin, SFX, programming, vocals, production) and Hungarian born Marianne VELVART (guitars, vocals).More... Rick Wakeman RWCC Spring Newsletter April 1997 (Hope Records) 
... a very talented female singer/songwriter by the name of Marianne Velvart. Both Frank Rodgers and Rick met with Marianne after being very impressed with the tapes that she sent the label and hopefully her debut album for Hope should be ready by the summer. More... At a Peculiar Angle A collection of poems published by SeaDream Music. Discography
Critics
Songs These demo songs are MP3 music files, which are each approx. 5MB large, and therefore, depending on the speed of your Internet connection, may take some time to download. In order to play these songs a MP3 player, i.e. Microsoft Windows Media Player, Apple QuickTime Player or equivalent, is required. Lyrics The music files and lyrics are free to download and free to play for private use only. If you wish to use my music or lyrics commercially then please Contact Me.
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