About BIG POPPA STAMPLEY

Big Poppa

Acclaimed Cariblujazz (Carribean-Blues-Jazz) artist Mark “Big Poppa” Stampley, is a popular recording and performing artist, born in Chicago, and now based in Louisville, KY. He has a long career as a singer/songwriter/guitarist/ghost writer and composer, with 4 CD’s under his belt UNIVERSAL BLUEMAN (2014), HERE COME BIG POPPA STAMPLEY (2007), SOME BLUES FOR YOU (2005), and just released his 5th studio album, JUKEBOX BLUES (2019). 

Among many accolades, he is the Winner of the 2016 and 2018 Kentuckiana Blues Challenge SOLO/DUO AWARD and was honorably nominated for the 2014 and 2017 “Blues artist of the year” awards by the Louisville Music Awards Academy. Big Poppa is the winner of the 2014 Sylvester Weaver Award and the Fred Hampton Image Award (2004).  
Along his career spanning close to three decades he has shared the stage  with performers ranging from  Koko Taylor, Oprah Winfrey, The Delphonics, The Emotions, Billy Branch, Pop Staples, Dave Myers,  Montel Jordan, Twista and Tracksta,  Quiet Storm, Ivan Neville (Neville Bros.), Calypso Rose, Roger,  Malik Yusef,   Roy Ayers, Maya Angelou,  Malcolm  Jamal -Warner, and Jack Black with his highly acclaimed band, Eclypse of the Moon... To date he has over 2,000 performances logged, ranging from festivals, concerts, musicals, clubs, casinos, hotels and in locations around the U.S.A., Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Bahamas, Thailand, and Cambodia.

Big Poppa supports Art Education in schools through his educational literacy and cultural enterprise,  MUSIC-HISTORY-In-MOTION and as a ethnomusicologist/Guitar Instructor; teaches student  workshops and performs in school systems in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Big Poppa started doing session guitar work in Chicago in the 90’s and has album credits that cross the genres of R&B, Reggae, hip hop, house, Rock and Roll, spoken word and gospel.