Mario Costa is a Brazilian Singer songwriter, actor and musical producer who recorded his first album in 1986 with his group SAGA for Polygram Brazil (Now Universal Music). With numerous soundtracks and compositional work under his belt, he moved to the US in 1990 to attend the “Grove School of Music” in California and founded the Brazilian Pop Beat group "THE RIO THING" also playing, arranging and writing for several artists in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro. After 10 years as a Recording Studio owner in Brazil, Mario is now back to being a full time musician. Mario Costa was born in Rio de Janeiro and started as a musician in the 80's writing music for stage plays.

He also performed and recorded as a sidemen and or singer/keyboardist with Katita e Marito, Ronaldos, Chuvas de verão, Zíper Aberto, Orquestra Xaca Xaca, Marquinhos Satã, Afonso Claudio, Banda Chamada Cavalo, Augustin y Rafael, Midnight Drums, Victor Z., Reni Flores, Velly Bahia, Mu Chebabi and many others.

As an actor Mario was a founder and member of the awarded "Manhas e Manias" theater company in Brazil and worked as an actor and author in many stage plays, TV shows and films. As a voice over actor Mario lended his voices to many characters in TV, movies and series in Brazilian and North American TV and most recently lended his voices to charcters in the feature animation "Rio". He was the official voice for Turner's Cartoon Newtork in Brazil for 3 years in 90's. He also directed the TV Comedy Show "Casseta e Planeta" for TV Globo Brazil in 1999 and 2000. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.