Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share some cool news regarding some songs from my first album "De un corazon a otro". This is from the news page on my official site:

The first single released off Mario's debut latin album titled "De un corazon a otro" was the ballad titled "Enamorado de ti". It received airplay on spanish radio in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain and Argentina! A second song "Besame", was hand-picked as a hot single by radio stations across the U.S. and received a great amount of airplay. It is still getting lots of online streams today, along with another song off the album, the pop salsa song "El Jibarito"! Another song "Siempre te amare", was a big hit in Chile! Recent news from Chile has let us know that this song is still getting great airplay in Chile today! We wish to extend our deepest thanks to all of Mario's fans in Chile who are still requesting the song on radio and to all the DJs and radio stations in Chile playing Mario's song!! We just received great news that another song off of Mario's debut album titled "A mi ritmo" has gotten some good airplay in the country of Kazakhstan! Yes, the same Kazakhstan that was in the movie Borat! Mario's music keeps reaching all over the world!

Kazakhastan?! That's pretty cool! I never would've thought my music would be played there, let alone getting good airplay!

Check out my other blog postings and as always, I look forward to your comments and kudos! Thanks for reading.
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Hola Todos,

Yo queria compartir noticias buenas sobre canciones de mi primer disco "De un corazon a otro". Esto es de la pagina de noticias en mi sitio oficial:

El primer sencillo fue la canción balada pop titulada "Enamorado de ti". La canción fue tocada en la estaciones hispana de los Estados Unidos y tambien en Puerto Rico, Mejico, Panama, Costa Rica, España y Argentina. La segunda cancion del album -"Besame", fue escogida por estaciones de radio en los Estados Unidos como un sencillo caliente y gano mucho airplay. Todavia se toca mucho en linea, tambien con la cancion pop salsa "El Jibarito" estan teniendo mucho airplay en linea. Otra cancion del album - "Siempre te amare" fue un gran hit en Chile adonde gano mucho airplay. Recien noticias llego que esta cancion todavia hasta este dia es un gran hit en Chile! Le mandamos mil gracias a todos los fans de esta cancion de Mario en Chile y a todas las estaciones y DJs de radio que tocan esta cancion de Mario!! Recibimos gran noticias que otra cancion del primer album de Mario titulado "A mi ritmo" a recibido buen airplay in el pais de Kazakhstan! Si, el mismo Kazakhstan que esta el pelicula Borat! La musica de Mario sigue llegando a todos partes del mundo!

Kazakhastan?! Que cool es eso! Yo nunca me imaginaba que mi musica sera tocado alla, ni pensar que tendra airplay bueno como lo que esta pasando!

Coge un momento a leer mi otro blogs y como siempre, yo estoy muy agradecido de todo tu comments y kudos! Gracias por leer.  

Hi everyone,

I watched the Michael Jackson Memorial as most of the world watched yesterday. It was a beautiful memorial for a wonderful music artist that brought a lot of happiness and light into the world with his music.

For me, it was so much more than that though. You see, the past few years for me have been very rough with personal problems 2 years ago and just when I began healing from those wounds and scars, I began dealing with my mother's health last year. Then that continued to this year where I lost my mom in March and as you can imagine, its been a personal hell the past 2 years or so. With all that happening in my personal life, it should come as no surprise that I began slowly losing myself and what I am passionate about. My music and everything having to do with that aspect of myself began taking more and more of a backseat to all the other problems and issues I was dealing with. I must say that I have been a broken and lost man these past 2 years. Broken from all life had thrown at me and lost as to what I should do about my music. I am a very optimistic person by nature but all the negativity life had thrown at me and feeling let down by life and some of those around me led me down a very introspective path. I am a very giving person and I felt and learned that some of those that relied on me could not be relied on. By the same token, some that I barely knew became ones that I could rely on and that helped balance out my anger and frustration. It was very sobering and made me sad too. So I was broken, lost and sad. Not a good combination of feelings to have. My mother's death was the final straw that sent all the feelings crashing in a downward spiral of introspection but it also helped me to begin finding myself. Like I said, I am an optimistic person and had to find a positive from within all the bad happening in my life. I had many regrets over my mom not seeing me become the success I had wanted to be. BUT, I know she IS looking down at me and will see what I will do. She is the one that introduced me to music as a child as she always liked to listen to all types of music and never pushed any one style of music on me. When the time came that I wanted to do music, she not only supported me but also became my manager and pushed me until I took the reins and ran with it. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I had to go back to what I had set out to do with my music - I owed that to her. However, with so long not doing music - it becomes daunting to get yourself back into the mindset of an artist. All the doubts, insecurities and other things that come with being an artist can work a number on you, especially when you've faced so much adversity. I had friends that told me to use my music to work out my sadness and emotions but for a singer/songwriter like me that uses so much emotion in his lyrics and sings that way as well, drawing on these emotions that are still raw is very hard. Its very hard to revisit that pain. I slowly worked my thoughts back to that of an artist but was still finding it hard to make that final push. However, I was finding that peace within myself that I had long been missing.

Then Michael Jackson died. I have always been a fan of MJ's music. He has written and sung some of the greatest music of all time. I always felt a connection to him as an artist in that I knew how it felt to be shy and misunderstood and I can understand how he turned into MJ the performer once he hit the stage. It is something we share in common. MJ was an "old soul" which is why he was able to sing songs well beyond his years even as a child. I always felt that connection as well.

His death and all the recent stories of what he accomplished in music, not only in music but what he was able to do with his music combined with the introspection of my mom's passing made me more introspective as to what I set out to do and haven't done with my music. For those of you that have followed me for years (or have just read my bio ), you know that I had a rock band named Vogue's Rogues and a lot of our music dealt with societal and environmental issues. This is something I had planned to continue to a higher level with my new rock band Society's Soul but all that took a backseat as I explained above. Hearing songs that MJ wrote such as "Heal the World', "We are the World", "Human nature", Black or white" reminded me of the message laden songs I had wanted to write. Also, hearing of all his charitable works. Of course, I am not nor will ever be in MJ's class of what he accomplished but it made me sad and frustrated to see where I was at and all those emotions I had been dealing with but at the same time it started awakening something within me.

Watching the MJ Memorial yesterday and hearing all the stories and accomplishments as well as all the love he had from his fans helped me find myself. Yes I was sad watching it and was moved many times to tears by the outpouring of love and respect BUT it also helped me remember that I have my own story to write and its time to getting back to that story and write some new chapters. 2 vastly different people - my mom and MJ helped me to find something I had been missing for so long. Its said that God works in mysterious ways and as long as you believe and are open to the signs, he will provide and I can attest that he has for me. I am ready to get back to where my passion lays, to doing music. That is why I say thanks to Michael, because in death he continues to inspire. Not only MJ but all the positive messages spoken at the Memorial of what he tried to accomplish with his music inspired me to get back to where my passion is. As for Long live the King - I not only am referring to the King of Pop who will live forever with his musical legacy and what he has given to charities but I also mean it for the King of Kings who worked in mysterious ways to help bring me back from the purgatory of the past few years to showing me that in going through this he was also helping me to find myself.

I'm back! Ready to get to doing and performing new music and working with artists and meeting all my great fans who have stuck by me and support my music.

Yesterday's double bad news of the passing of Farrah and Michael really saddened me as it did a lot of other people around the world. The passing of Farrah really affected me because it reminded me of my mom in how she fought so hard to get better and also her age of 62 which was the same as my mom when she passed 3 months ago. So I already was sad yesterday before the Michael news. Both are American Icons and will be remembered. Micheal's music will live on for generations and along with Elvis, I don't think we will ever see music stars like those 2 again. Having gone through a loss recently, I know the pain and send my deepest prayers to Farrah and Michael's families, loved ones, friends and fans.

Thank you to all of you for your kind words of support, respect and sympathy - I truly appreciate it.

It has indeed been a rough time for myself, my daughters, my stepdad, brother and my wife but we are supporting and helping each other through this as a family should.

We had her remains cremated and had a wonderful memorial service for her this past Monday.

Have my good days and have my bad moments but I take comfort in that she is no longer suffering after having suffered through so much the past 8 months. I also take great comfort and satisfaction in that I did everything I could for her from taking care of her bills to making sure that everyone was attending to her and her needs at the nursing home and hospital all the way until the day that I brought her back to her home. She fought hard to make it back home and although she only did wind up being home for a little over a week when she made it home that one final time, she did make it home and I helped make that happen for her and I take great comfort and satisfaction in that. I know that she went off to a better life knowing that I was taking care of everything and would continue to take care of my stepdad and brother which I am doing and will continue to do as those would be her wishes.

My mom finally returned home on Tuesday 3/3 after being in and out of the hospital and nursing home and not home since Sept. '08. She was rushed back to the hospital Friday afternoon 3/13. We lost my mom Monday morning  3/16 for 10 minutes but thank God that the doctors were able to bring her back to life. She was in ICU in critical condition but unfortunately never regained consciousness and passed away this Saturday morning. She was 62. Rest in peace mom. I'll always love and miss you.

Thank you to everyone who sent their support, love, prayers and warm thoughts all these past months and recently. It helped so much through some rough and dark times. I'll always appreciate it from the depths of my heart. Thank you.

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Peace!
Mario M.

Hi everyone,

I hope you are having a good day. As you've seen by my MySpace page, MySpace blog, personal comments and replies to your comments and messages I'm not like other artists and I like to show that to you all. Through my MySpace blog you have gotten to know me as an Artist but if you really want to know more about me, then stop by my personal blog which is very different from my MySpace blog.

In my personal blog you can get to know me on a more personal level ~ read about my thoughts on things in my personal life, my music, music in general, TV shows and more! Come check it out and do stop by often as I'll be updating it often! Enjoy!!

http:/./mariosrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/

Also, remember to check out my official site at www.worldconquestrecords.com where you can see my bio, discography, personal bio (which is updated regularly!), photos, merchandise and more!