Mark Mulcahy is making music to ease the pain of loss

US singer Mark Mulcahy is back in the music business after taking a break to look after his twin daughters following the sudden death of his wife in 2008.

Mark Mulcahy has endured his fair share of ups and downs in his life. Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Miracle Legion, the Connecticut band he fronted, were lauded in college rock circles but failed to make the transition of their peers REM. Eventually the band fizzled out in the mid ’90s due to that old staple, record company wrangles.

Says Mulcahy: “We sort of had a ‘legal ending’. We were on a label we couldn’t get off. We couldn’t get on. We couldn’t do anything for a long time so we fizzled out. We didn’t actually break up or anything, everybody just went into different directions.”