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• 1 February 1986: Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul, MN, USA (Prince as guest)

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• 1986 Kiss (single) (background vocals)

• 1990 Jerk Out (single) (background vocals)

• Albums

1986 Mazarati (Paisley Park)

• Singles

1986 100 MPH (single)

Mazarati is an American R&B band formed in the mid-1980s by former The Revolution bassist Brown Mark. Originally hailing from Minneapolis, they are now defunct as a group. The band's sole hit was a song called "100 MPH", which was written and co-produced by Prince.

Sir Casey Terry(vocals) and Jerome "Romeo" Cox (bass) were students at a Minneapolis' high school when they met bassist and fellow student Brown Mark, who gave them a lot of encouragement and went on to become famous after joining Prince's band, The Revolution. With Brown Mark giving them a lot of guidance, Terry and Romeo ended up calling their band "Mazarati" and hired several more Minneapolis-based musicians, including lead guitarist Craig "Screamer" Powell, drummer [[|Kevin Patrick|Kevin "Blondie Patrick]], rhythm guitarist Tony Christian, and keyboardists Marr Starr and Aaron Paul "Ace" Keith.

Mazarati's association with Brown Mark led to a deal with Prince's Paisley Park label, which released the Midwesterners' self-titled debut album in 1986.

The band continued after its association with Prince and signed with Motown Records releasing their second album, Mazarati 2 (1989), including the singles "The Saga Of A Man" and "The Woman Thang". Brown Mark and former Klymaxx-founding member Bernadette Cooper both worked as producers on this album which experienced little success; the distribution of the LP and CD appears to have been limited in quantity.

In 2011, Craig "Screamer" Powel and Marvin Gunn assembled a new band based upon Mazarati's back catalogue, "Mazarati Revisited". A debut show, tour and album are reputed to be in the works.

• Sir Casey Terry: Lead Vocals
  
• Tony Christian: Guitar (Rhythm), Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  
• Craig "Screamer" Powell: Guitar (Lead), Backing Vocals
  
• Jerome "Romeo" Cox: Bass, Backing Vocals
  
• Marr Starr: Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  
• Aaron Paul Keith: Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  
• Kevin Patrick: Drums, Percussion
  

Additional Band Members:

• Kelly Gravely: Drums
  
• Daniel Satterberg: Keyboards
  

None.

The band is notable for songs that they did not release: they were originally given Kiss, a country blues demo recorded by Prince. After they transformed the one-verse one-chorus track into a funk number, Prince decided to take it back. He added a guitar break and his vocals, but kept Mazarati's background vocals and released the song on his Parade (1986). Kiss became a No. 1 hit single.

Another song given to Mazarati was an outtake from The Time called Jerk Out. Their take on the song never made the album, but the track was re-recorded in 1990 by The Time and became a No. 1 single. Sir Casey Terry - background vocals were kept on The Time's released version.

On July 1, 1986, the group performed Player's Ball, I Guess It's All Over and 100 MPH live at the premiere party of Under The Cherry Moon, held at the Centennial Theater of the Sheridan Convention Center - Holiday Inn, Sheridan, Wyoming. A few other live concerts took place the same year.

• Discography without Prince :

1986 Player's Ball (single)

Billboard Black Singles peak position 79

1986 Stroke (single)

1987 Mazarati 2 (Motown)

1989 The Saga Of A Man (single)

1989 The Woman Thang (single)

• http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mazarati
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazarati
• http://www.myspace.com/100mhp