Sanders collaborated with Tia Sillers on the Lee Ann Womack song " I Hope You Dance". On November 7, 2011, Mark D Sanders released "History & Hope", an album that features him singing 10 of his songs spanning his career, including "I Hope You Dance," and in 2017 he released a second CD entitled "First Fast Car."
His self-owned publishing companies include: Mark D Music (sold to Universal Music in 1997), Soda Creek Songs, Yampa Tunes, Blue Clear Music, and Songs of the Sanderosa. In his career Sanders has written for a number of publishers: Acuff-Rose Publishing, Alabama Band Music, Mid-Summer Music, MCA Music Publishing, Starstruck Writers Group, Universal Music Publishing, and Large Vista Music. In 1997 he was the ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year, and had the ASCAP song of the year with Lonestar's " No News". Sanders was the NSAI Songwriter of the Year in 1995, a year that brought him five No. He also wrote singles for Diamond Rio, Tracy Lawrence, and John Anderson. Sanders' first songwriting credits included tracks on Garth Brooks' 1990 album No Fences. After a lengthy, successful songwriting career, Mark now enjoys fly fishing the Yampa river in Steamboat Springs, Colorado where he and Cindy spend their summers, body surfing in Maui where they spend their winters, traveling and spending time with their adult children. In 1986, he married Cindy Sasser whom he met while working at Hillsboro High School. There were more menial jobs awaiting Sanders in Nashville: cooking at the Sailmaker and Ruby Tuesday's, substitute teaching, two years in charge of In School Suspension at Hillsboro High School and driving a tour bus. He and the same first wife arrived in Tennessee on March 5, 1980. He abandoned a teaching career after the passage of California's controversial Proposition 13, then had a succession of menial jobs until making the decision to pursue songwriting as a career in Nashville in early 1980. He and his first wife returned to California in 1975, where he taught for three years in the Orange Unified School District. After graduation he worked as a VISTA volunteer in Arkansas for eighteen months, then earned his teaching certificate at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. While majoring in literature, Sanders also enjoyed surfing at the University of California, San Diego, where he wrote his first songs. He graduated from Villa Park High School in 1968, lettering in basketball all three years, and then played two more years of basketball at Fullerton Junior College. He lived in the Lemiert Park area of Los Angeles until his family moved to the City of Orange in Orange County. Sanders was born in Los Angeles, California on September 7, 1950. JSTOR ( August 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.
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