Mario Maisonnave
Mario Maisonnave (born November 19, 1962, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian/Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...n singer / songwriter / producer. Maisonnave is best known as the founder and lead vocalist of rock en español band Modelo Para Armar- but he started out in Distorsion, the first rock act to be signed by Sony Music Central America. Over the course of his career Maisonnave topped the Central American charts six times. His first record ''Todo en su lugar ''(Sony 1985) with Distorsion broke sales records for ''rock en español'' in Central America. His album ''Mario Maisonnave / Modelo Para Armar ''(Sony 1989) stayed at number one for 4 weeks in Central America, achieving gold status. The album included the single ''Abrime tu corazon'' which p ...
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is a character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the '' Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Depicted as a short, pudgy, Italian plumber who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom, his adventures generally center on rescuing Princess Peach from the Koopa villain Bowser. Mario has access to a variety of power-ups that give him different abilities. Mario's fraternal twin brother is Luigi. Mario first appeared as the player character of '' Donkey Kong'' (1981), a platform game. Miyamoto wanted to use Popeye as the protagonist, but when he could not achieve the licensing rights, he created Mario instead. Miyamoto expected the character to be unpopular and planned to use him for cameo appearances; originally called "Mr. Video", he was renamed to Mario after Mario Segale. Mario's clothing and characteristics were themed after ...
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