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Tunafish Jones is a creative concoction created by lead singer and songwriter, (Marvelous) Mars McCracken . Influenced early on by jazz elite Ella Fitzgerald, Della Reese, Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, composer Leonard Bernstein, and funk master James Brown, Mars envisioned a band that could mesh together the free for all hilarity of a night at a juke joint with the profundity of a symphonic odyssey. 

She came from a family of musical genius, a great grandmother who played harp and taught music, a grandfather  who set the household on fire playing boogie-woogie on an old upright piano, a mother who played jazz standards by ear on the piano, singing along with a beautiful, deep haunting voice, and last but not least, an uncle, a  child prodigy, who was an outstanding piano player as well as jazz drummer .

 Mars played piano and clarinet but preferred to stand on the corner and sing. 

Her first introduction to the stage was in New York, when she was barely five years old. She knew immediately that’s where she belonged. She inherited the voice from her mother, the rhythm from her uncle and from her father (a legendary long distant runner from Istanbul Turkey) she received the endurance to sing and dance up a storm.   

Amazon Prime Video has recently released "Stanley Stanton" a  feature film written, directed and edited by Mars.  Along with Tunafish Jones guitartist/keyboard player, Bruce McCracken, she composed, and performed  the soundtrack.    Mars also produced and edited the Tunafish Jones' music videos, No More Radio, Took It To The Limit,  If I Could Fly Away, and Your Body Rocks.