Mark Wynter

Mark Wynter was one of the moderately successful British pop/rock crooners to come up in the wake of Cliff Richard and Billy Fury.

Born Terry Lewis in Woking, he was one of a family of six, and distinguished himself as a boy soprano at his church.

By the time he was in his mid-teens, rock & roll was beginning to make itself felt in England, and in 1959, at the age of 16, he was given his first chance at stardom -- a manager named Ray Mackender discovered Lewis singing with a group in a dance hall, filling in for the group's regular lead singer, and was so impressed that he made it his business to meet and sign the teenager.