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The Howard University freshman was visiting family in Manhattan. Walking past the Paramount Theater, Marks stopped where a crowd had gathered to see the rock group The Animals. A guard let her in, and she was enthralled by the group’s raw musicianship.

Dressed in white gloves and stockings and wearing pumps, she felt out of place with the audience, but she loved what she was feeling. The helpful guard brought her back to Eric Burden’s dressing room.

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That day, the course of her life changed forever.

Tossing aside a possible career in fine arts and English, her two majors, she never returned to Howard. Marks began an affair with Eric Burden, lead singer of The Animals, and decided to stay in New York.

She wanted to find herself in this new world she had just discovered. She thought she’d try her luck at singing and dancing with rock musicians; her luck was good. Her first job was with Al Cooper’s Blues Project.

From there, she went to singing and dancing in the