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Marc Chase, Song Writer and Singer....

Talk about life reflecting art, you can’t say this without feeling life through the music of Marc Chase…. every note reflects the memories of this song writer and singer…. paint is to canvas is as the cords are to lyrics when Marc shares his life through his music… as a listener I was mesmerized by the passion and soul coming from this artist… Every note whispering the hidden passion while telling a story of the life of a child growing up in a dysfunctional family through the teenage years as a singer in Memphis… to the witnessing of the tragic shooting of his girlfriends mother at his doorstep…. Then he fell into the trappings of the music industry with women, drugs and lavish parties. Years later,he found himself sitting in his house one night with a 38 in hand shooting holes in the walls and being taunted by his girlfriend to shoot at a twirling ceiling fan , as if he was at the shooting gallery in an amusement park…. it was at that moment he realized he had to stop. He told his girlfriend she had to go and that he was not going to continue in this life style and destroy his children…. He left the music business and started a successful moving company, which provided a lavish lifestyle for his family and children,,, things went well for a number of years, until the ultimate deception from a new partnership destroyed his business of 20 years in just a couple of weeks…. Returning to music brings Marc full circle, this time with a lifetime of soul in his music….

Marc’s band had been on the circuit for years singing the popular songs of the day, making him very successful…. this time he is Picasso, Van Gogh who will put paint to his own canvas… Marc is putting his own chords and lyrics to music… let the listener be the judge…
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When Robert Moffa heard the music of singer/songwriter Marc Chase he knew he’d found the right person to write a song that would embody the meaning of releasing butterflies.
A composer himself, Moffa, a Ruskin resident, is the founder of the American Ideals Foundation, a non-profit 501-c-3 that helps veterans and their families. As part of military celebrations and funerals, the foundation releases hundreds of butterflies to symbolize new life, new beginnings and new love.
By chance, Chase met Moffa through a mutual friend, author Larry Whittler, and heard a story about how the butterflies that are released often fly back and land on the fingers of the woman who dresses as a butterfly and releases them, Donna Ashley.
“When I heard how she holds her fingers, making a circle, thumb to forefinger, symbolizing undying love, and they come back and land on them, it gave me chills,” Chase said.
Now Chase is being commissioned to write about it, said Moffa.
This project fits right in with two other of Moffa’s interests, the foundation’s Art Project that helps artists and musicians, and Moffa’s business, (expired link). Publishing House Inc., based in Ruskin.
“He’s the right person with the right sound,” said Moffa.
Chase, who recently attended an event in Sun City Center to honor another artist connected to the foundation, has been playing guitar and writing songs since he was 13 and performs everything from Rock to Pop to Oldies and Blues.
Heavily influenced by his mother, father and grandfather, all of whom were musicians, he is completely self-taught; feeling the music he creates in his head and heart instead of reading it on paper.
Although he performs many long-time favorites from several generations, Chase has written almost 60 of his own songs and has a band of seven musicians all of whom live in different parts of the country and come together to practice and perform.
“Mom played guitar and sang to us when we were growing up in Maine,” Chase said. “My dad’s father played banjo, guitar and piano.”
Chase and his two brothers formed a band and played during their school years and by the age of 16 he had written his first song, The Woman is a Lady.”
He continued to play for the first years he and his wife Buffy were married, traveling and living on the road and staying in the hotels where he was booked.
Chase and his brothers had been picked up by Charlie Feathers, referred to in the music business as the Rock-a-Billy-King, while Chase was recording at American Sound Studios in Memphis, where he had moved from Maine. This led to five years of road performances with Feathers son, Bubba Feathers and the Big City Band, during which he shared the stage with Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Dottie West and many more household names.
“When my oldest daughter was five, my mother asked what we were going to do about school,” Chase said. “As musicians, we didn’t think about anything like that. But mom did, and she and dad rented a truck and we moved to Florida near them and became ‘domiciled’ I didn’t even know what it meant to be ‘domiciled’ but mom said we had to be to put our kids in school.”

Marc and his brothers were picked-up by Charlie Feathers – Rock-a-Billy King, and went on tour while recording some albums. 
The tours lead to a five year run with Bubba Feathers – Charlie's son, and the “Big City Band”. The Big City Band shared the stage with many 
successful acts such as; Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Dottie West, and many more, not to mention opening up for the Guess Who in the early 80'sade a decision to leave the band and let his 

Now 58, he and Buffy have since become the parents of eight children.
Coming to Florida was a natural for him as his parents had moved to Largo and now he not only goes on the road to meet up with his band for large events, but performs at many places in Tampa Bay.
Having seen and gone through many ups and downs in his life has given him the ability to write soulful music and lyrics, and his wide vocal range enables him to easily switch between musical genres.
“The tragedies give me a lot of my emotional lyrics,” he said, demonstrating his performance with a wide range of songs.
To hear his music readers may visit (expired link). He may be contacted through his email at marcchase23@(expired link). The Marc Chase Band may be seen and heard at (expired link) and to find out more about the American Ideals Foundations visit,
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Marc and his brothers were picked-up by Charlie Feathers – Rock-a-Billy King, and went on tour while recording some albums. 
The tours lead to a five year run with Bubba Feathers