Mark de Clive-Lowe is a Japanese-New Zealander keyboardist, composer, and
electronic music producer born on 16 August 1974 in Auckland. Raised bilingually
by a Japanese mother and a New Zealand father, he began piano lessons at age
four and later studied jazz at the Berklee College of Music in 1994. He gained
international prominence while living in London from 1998 to 2008, where he
became a key figure in the broken beat movement and collaborated with artists
such as Lauryn Hill and 4Hero. His discography includes the 2000 worldwide
release Six Degrees and the 2005 album Tide's ...