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Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

Mark Hoppus

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Mark Hoppus
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 15
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Ridgecrest
California
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Markus Allan Hoppus
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