Wizzo
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| Birth name | Jose Mario Fernandez |
| Also known as | Wizzo |
| Born | 1984 (age 33–34) Guadalajara, Jalisco , Mexico |
| Origin | Inglewood, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
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Mario Fernandez (born 1984), better known as Wizzo or wizzogmb, is a Mexican-American hip-hop/electronic producer, recording/mixing engineer, and DJ based in Santa Ana, Ca. He was born to Mexican mother and father in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He has worked with Lil Jon, Boosie, DJ Drama, Nipsey Hussle, Yg, Skeme, Dom Kennedy, Jim Jonsin, and various other producers, artists and engineers.
Wizzo began his recording career in November 2009,when he started an internship at Actual Eyes Media, a small post production studio in Studio City, Ca. Wizzo,where he gained sharp ear for engineering and mastering of professional audio recordings.
In December 2010, Wizzo began collaborating with American rapper Nipsey Hussle, and released The Marathon, which featured "U dont Got A Clue" , which was produced By Wizzo.XXL made the mixtape the 49th best mixtape of 2010 the albums ability to bring back an earlier era of West coast hip hop music.
In 2011 Wizzo would collaborate with Nipsey again on The Marathon Continues, this time, Wizzo worked closely on recording and engineering. His network of producer colleagues; recruiting production, talent and help manifest the goals of the team. Wizzo was credited executive music producer alongside engineer colleague Danny Mota.
Wizzo went on and collaborated with other musicians recording sessions and helping with mixing on various songs and projects for the emerging LA west-coast hip-hop music culture, working alongside LA natives, Skeme, Audio Push, and Dubb. On September 16, 2013, Nipsey Hussle announced he would release a new mixtape titled, Crenshaw hosted by DJ Drama, on October 8, 2013 which Wizzo would go on to provide a major role as a recording engineer, executive music producer and producing the track titled "Crenshaw and Slauson, True Story" which became the projects first visual. On December 24, 2013, XXL named it the second best mixtape of 2013, commented saying the project "changed the course of hip-hop releases with the promotional run for Crenshaw.
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