User:Marios7480/sandbox
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Mario Santilli | |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Frivolous, MSuperProducer, Mario Santilli |
| Born | March 5, 1981 |
| Origin | District of Columbia, United States |
| Genres | Pop, Hip hop, R&B |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, musician, songwriter, Mix Engineer |
| Website | www |
Mario Santilli (born March 5, 1981), is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and Mix Engineer, producing Soul, hip hop, R&B and Pop music.
Early life[edit]
Mario Santilli was born on March 5, 1981, in District of Columbia, the 2nd youngest of 4 children birthed by Mother Terry Santilli, owner of a cleaners business, and Thomas Santilli, ceramic tile Business owner. Mario's introduction into formal music dates back to the age of 10 when he first joined the Sterling Park Elementary school choir. Once in middle school Mario joined the South Seminole Middle School band program as he began to learn Tenor Sax. Due to his mother mother's illness, Mario was moved with family to Baltimore Maryland in 1994. There he finished his middle (Woodlawn Middle) and high school (Milford Mill Academy) career. Before high school graduation, Mario would have attended the Milford Mill Academy Marching Band under the direction of his early inspiration, head band director Mr. James Gough. Mario went on to join the Magnificent Marching Machine as a student at Morgan State University. Mario while studying music at Morgan State, would develop a knack and love for Musical composition. He started to arrange top 40 records for the marching band under the watchful eye of head band director, Mr. Melvin Miles. Santilli while a memeber of the band played the tenor sax, mellophone and functioned as the band's drum major. Mario's interest in composition was shifted towards production by a close childhood friend, William Birckhead who would encourage Mario to pursue a career in music. While still in college, Mario's production start would take place in his college dormitory where he would create musical production and record students and local talent in his dorm room closet. Post college Mario would go on to work fulltime at Verizon Wireless while continuing his growth as a young and developing producer and engineer. Mario would later quit his job at Verizon to pursue his musical endeavors as a fulltime carrer.
Career[edit]
2004–2008: Career beginnings[edit]
Through working the mentoring of Grammy Award Winning Producer and Record Executive Frankie Biggz, Mario would produce his first major record for Frankie's artist and Spain's top grossing Pop artist in 2006, IreanB. Mario would go on to work with Dru Hill's Larry "Jazz" Anthony as well as many artist local to Baltimore to include Amore, Just'us, Shannon Ramsey, Jarell Johnson, Riece Carpenter, London Savoy, Deja Mathews, Joshua Lay, MFree, Corey Mitchell and many others.
2009–2017:[edit]
Mario over the next 8 years would continue to develop his musical and engineering sound. He would go in to produce, song write arrange mix and master for 100s of independent artist. In January 31, 2010, Mario walked out of Verizon Wireless. This would mark the very last time that he would ever work outside of his own company and/or branding. Mario would temporary shelve Fire Starters Inc in 2014 in order to focus on establishing his own branding "MSuperProducer". In 2016 Mario would sign a none-exclusive production deal with Universal/Concore. In 2017 Mario would produce a Commercial record for Tatyana Ali "Ghost Town" for an album released by the U.N. to sponsor the fight against human trafficking.
2018:[edit]
In 2018, Mario “MSuperProducer” works out of Wright Recording Studio in Baltimore Maryland, one of the largest recording studios in the DMV. As a producer engineer with 15+ years experience, over 1000 records produced and 10,000 hours of recording and mixing time, Mario is a tenured professional in his craft to include, music composition, song writing, vocal arranging, recording, mixing and master. Despite occasional success in mainstream fashion to include produced records for Larry “Jazz” Anthony (of Dru Hill), Tatyana Ali (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) and musical composition which have aired on major broadcasting networks (Fox, NFL, BET, CBS), Mario continues to establish his identity and footprint in the music business with no slowing to his pace in sight.
“For me, music is a vehicle of emotional expression. My only concern is that the vehicle is built correctly in order to delivery the desired emotion to its desired audience."