MC Mario

MC Mario is the professional name of Mario Tremblay (born ca. 1960), a Canadian radio and club disc jockey who has sold 2.5 million albums in Canada.

The Montreal-based performer is best known for his remix compila

MC Mario is the professional name of Mario Tremblay (born ca. 1960), a Canadian radio and club disc jockey who has sold 2.5 million albums in Canada.

The Montreal-based performer is best known for his remix compilation albums, widely-marketed in Canada since the 1990s, and for his syndicated weekly radio programs The Mixdown and The Party Mix. Since 2004, his Mixdown has also appeared on bpm:tv. He is a member of the Canadian Dance Hall of Fame, and was nominated for a 2003 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year for "All That I Like." His proponents have lauded his ability to get people moving, his popularization of dance music in the mainstream, and his ability to introduce comparatively rare European music to the Canadian market. Detractors, however, have derided him for simply playing to the mainstream and lack of originality in his DJ-ing.