Career
Medlock is the elder of two siblings born to an African-American father from Georgia, Larry Medlock, and a German mother, Monika, in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse. At the age of six, Medlock began singing gospel, widely influenced by his father and soul singers such as James Brown and Barry White. At the end of the 1990s, his mother fell sick with cancer.
Medlock subsequently left school and cared for her until her death in 2000.
Two years later his father died of a heart attack. In the meantime Mark made a living with various jobs, including employment as a geriatric orderly, gardener, swamper and garbage remover.
Medlock was one of the favorite contestants right from the beginning of the competition. He had wowed the audience and the judges with his first performance in the Top 20 motto show and so on to the final.