Marq Torien

Marq Torien
Marq Torien, July 2008 at the South Texas Rock Fest
Background information
Birth name	Mark Joseph Maytorena
Born	(1961-09-22) September 22, 1961 Los Angeles, California
Genres	Heavy metal, glam metal, hard rock
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, congas
Years active	1980s-present

Marq Torien (born Mark Joseph Maytorena on September 22, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is the lead singer of the hard rock act BulletBoys. He is the only member to have remained with the group since the release of their self-titled debut album in 1988.

History

Prior to BulletBoys, Torien was a guitarist in the then-unsigned band Ratt, a guitarist for the band Hawk, a member of Motown recording artists Kagny & the Dirty Rats, a lead vocalist briefly for the band King Kobra., and the lead vocalist of the band Marquis/Touch.

In addition to periodic BulletBoys ventures, Torien's solo projects included Sexual Chocolate, Ten-Cent Billionaires, and This.

Torien added vocals on the track "Texas Lawman" From The Regulators on their 1993 self-titled album on Polygram/Polydor.

Torien provided lead vocals for two tracks on Cherry St.'s second album Monroe in 1994. The tracks being "Dogtown" and "One More Tonight"

In the book Off the Rails by Rudy Sarzo, Sarzo tells a story about Torien's audition for the Ozzy Osbourne band after the death of Randy Rhoads as the group's guitarist. Sarzo claims that Torien's audition was cut short by the latter's insistence that his former mentor Tony Mills was "the original Ozzy." Mills himself boasted that before his death Rhoads was set to join his band TNT.

Discography

with Bulletboys

• BulletBoys (1988)
• Freakshow (1991)
• Za-Za (1993)
• Acid Monkey (1995)
• Sophie (2003)
• 10¢ Billionaire (2009)
• Rocked and Ripped (2011)
• Elefante' (2015)
• From Out of the Skies (2018)

External links

• Official BulletBoys Myspace page
• Official Marq Torien Myspace page