Mark McLemore has been the host of Arizona Public Media's Arizona Spotlight since July 2007.

Mark originally started at KUAZ in 1994 as a jazz DJ and he has enjoyed playing music for listeners on Friday nights ever since. He is also heard regularly as an announcer during the daytime NPR news programming.

Mark was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, where he studied music and art, and spent time working as a film projectionist, museum guard, and musician. He has played drums in bands since he was a teenager, and it was a sudden chance to play in a friend's band that brought him to Tucson in 1991, a decision he has never had time to regret.