Mark Hoppus

Mark Allan Hoppus is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality best known as the bassist and colead vocalist for the pop punk band Blink182. Born in Ridgecrest, California, Hoppus spent his childhood moving back and forth between his mother and fathers houses, as they divorced when he was in third grade. He became interested in skateboarding and punk rock in junior high, and received a bass guitar from his father at the age of fifteen. After moving to San Diego in 1992, Hoppus sister introduced him to Tom DeLonge, and together with drummer Scott Raynor, they formed the band Blink182. With DeLonges termination from the band in 2015, Hoppus remains the only founding member.

Mark Hoppus was born in Ridgecrest, California on March 15, 1972, to Kerry Wernz and Tex Hoppus. Ridgecrest is a small town in the California desert, composed mainly of what Hoppus later described as geniuses, scientists, physicists and then just complete strungout methheads. His father, like many in Ridgecrest, worked for the U.S. Department of Defense, designing missiles and bombs for the towns Navy testing center. Hoppus describes himself as pretty mellow until his parents divorced when he was eight, which had a drastic, unsettling effect on him. When my parents argued, it was always behind closed doors. I remember sitting outside my parents room when I was seven years old, hearing the dulled voice of anger behind the door. It upset me a lot. Following these events, he spent two years shuffling between his parents homes with sister Anne, until he and his father moved to nearby Monterey. His father was often away earning a postgraduate degree in college. He later would describe his c

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