Grand Award Winning Bunny Mack

Autobiography of Bunny Mack

Born Cecil B MacCormack, Bunny Mack hails from Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. His birthday is the 3rd of December ----, the 3rd son and 5th child of Reverend Eustace Gilbert MacCormack and Mrs Hannah Egertina MacCormack (both deceased). He attended the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, and worked outside of music for a short time at the Bank of West Africa, now known as the Standard Chartered Bank in Freetown, after leaving school. His involvement with music, started when he appeared in front of an audience of about 500 at the tender age of 8 years.

On that auspicious day, he played the Harmonica. His musical interest developed over the years as he started playing the Banjo and graduated to the Guitar, which is his instrument of choice to this day. With his guitar in hand, Bunny Mack joined a band soon after leaving school, and played locally at various events. His keen interest in poetry naturally led him into song writing. He wrote whilst playing in the band. The first band Bunny played with was the "Daverns", which was later re-named "The Echoes". At the time, he earned extra money by doubling performances with a radio band called the "SLBS Crackers".

Bunny left the Echoes for ‘richer pastures’ in the United Kingdom upon invitation from the management and members of the "Soundcasters". He decided that his future was in the professional recording business and he moved. He travelled extensively in Europe with the band, playing countries like Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium. He also toured with several big stars. All this was nice but Bunny’s main interest was in making his way into the recording studio. He recorded a couple of singles with the Soundcasters, one released in England, and the other in Sierra Leone. When they returned to England in 1970 after touring, the group disbanded. Bunny chose to further his ambition as a recording artiste single-handedly. In 1978, he recorded "Shake You Battie", closely followed by "Disco-Lypso" and "Funny Lady", all released in late 1978. The year after he released these songs, Bunny’s motivator, his Dad, died in January 1979, and he went home to Sierra Leone to bury him. On his return to England, Bunny Mack went into the studio and recorded the now re-released song "Let me Love You", known affectionately as "My Sweetie". This song gave Bunny the all-important exposure, which he craved; the success of which earned him a Gold Disc award. Even though his Dad was not around, he has always attributed his outstanding success to his Father, whom he believes, must have been there to guide him spiritually. With the success of the releases, Bunny took the opportunity to go on tour, starting with his home country--Sierra Leone, then on to Nigeria and Liberia. After a bitter court battle to sort things out with his Manager/Producer who Bunny believed was embezzling his earnings, Bunny signed to Columbia Records International, CBS, now Sony, in England. He released two albums. He saw out his contract and in 1985, he set up Beemac Productions to produce and manage his own work. He released some re-mixes of the old favourites and some new songs under Beemac Productions. Bunny Mack is not even close to being done as a recording artist yet. He says, “there are many more songs of mine waiting to be recorded”. Bunny plans to continue his career-long tradition of only recording songs he wrote.

Bunny’s huge hits to date include songs like - Angel in disguise; I can't leave you alone; Let me love you; I really love you; and Silver Spoon. Five of the best songs you’ll ever hear. There’s more to come from Sierra Leone’s maestro! Bunny Mack is currently recording a New Album that he expects to release in early 2007. Ever the hard worker, he is already planning his project after that one. He hopes to migrate his style in favour of a gentle feel: He plans to become the King of Ballads, which are regular features on his albums out to date. Watch out! The Grand Award winning Legend is alive and kicking.

Compiled by:
Lawrence Spencer-Coker
Master B