Draft:DOZA MC



Mario Dino (born September 1, 1991) (Tirana, Albania) known professionally as DOZA or DOZA MC, is an Albanian Rapper, songwriter, record producer and sound engineer.

DOZA is among the most influential underground rappers of the Albanian Hip-Hop Scene, over the years he has released more than 10 Albums that have amassed more than 10 million streams across all music platforms. He is considered by many artists of the genre and by the public as a Lyricist that brought growth in the underground scene by achieving success without a record deal or a major label.

His lyrics speak about social problems, Personal experiences, political views, Esoteric teachings, Spirituality, the Occult, Conspiracy theories and street-life among other subjects. A notable advantage of DOZA is that he is able to write and perform on a large variety of instrumentals including: Boom Bap, Reggae, Trap, Drill, Afro-Trap, Rock/Hip-Hop and many more, thus giving his music a wider range of audience. His writing style consists a lot of different patterns and moods that he uses depending on the subject, his most notable writing style is storytelling in witch he paints a picture through lyrics in the viewer's mind by rhyming a whole story in one or more songs where he presents different characters and describes different situations and scenarios that lead to a conclusion, this method gives the listener an overall experience that feels as if you are watching a movie rather than just listening to a song. DOZA has a lot of well known songs such as: Ruleta, Nxënës i mire, Hash Hash baby, Mami & Babi I, II & III, Lotët thaji, Dua të dehem, Skllavëri moderne, Udhëtimi ska mbaruar, Fjalëgdhëndës, Vetëm ty, Illuminati, Syri i tretë, Tesla, Nuk i dihet, Shqipez and many more. DOZA has a long list of collaborations with other artists of the genre such as: AroGanti, BimBimma, G Bani, 2DIE4, G-Up, TruPak, D.M.K and many more, he has also appeared on several mainstream TV-SHOWS in Albania and Greece such as: Zone e lire at TvKlan, hosted by Arian Cani, Why not? at Ora news TV, hosted by Roza Lati, Mytma beatin at TV Dukagjini in Kosovo, Late night show at Ora news TV, hosted by Kastro Zizo, KafeIn at ON TV hosted by Flavio Qarri, Protagonistes at MEGA TV hosted by Stavros Theodhorakis in Greece & was interviewed by GabMorrison from France for a YouTube show about the Underground Hip-Hop scene in Europe. DOZA has performed in more than 50 shows in Albania and Greece, some of his most notable shows are : B-Fest Festival, Athens,Greece in 2010, Rodon Stage in Athens, Greece in 2011, Underground Hip-Hop show at Converse in Tirana, Albania in 2015 & 16, New versus club in Korçë in 2018, Maratona e kenges 2019 in Fier, Elbasan & Berati, Festa e birres 2019 in Korca and many more. DOZA has also been featured in the short movie (documentary) DOZA which was directed by Erion Kovaci in 2009 and was released in the beginning of 2010, the short movie DOZA won the Best story and Best Screenplay awards in the short film festival of Thessaloniki in 2010. DOZA is featured in more than 20 Music videos and Social media lyric videos by thousands of fans on Instagram & Tik-Tok and is currently working on a new Album that he announced on April 2022, the new Album is expected to be released in 2023.

Early life
Mario was born in Tirana, Albania, his family lived in Tirana but migrated to Athens, Greece when Mario was 4 years old (1995), at the age of seven Mario attended the  Marasleion  Elementary School in Kolonaki, Athens, he was described by his teachers as a lazy student because he would never do his homework and he almost never payed attention in class, he was very shy and distant from other students and most of the time he would doodle and write on his books, notebooks, desk and even on his schoolbag, he did poor at math, chemistry and physics but did better at geography, biology and history, Mario performed different acting roles in the annual theatre shows that took place at the Marasleion showroom, he also did well at memorising poems and reciting them at the School organised National Holiday feasts, Mario was very good at essays, he would really go deep on the different subjects that he wrote about, his teachers noticed that by the time he was 9 years old and tried to motivate him to write more by showcasing his essays at the weekly school news-board, Mario finished his elementary education at the age of 11 (2002) and continued to attend the Marasleion Gymnasium for the next three years, at this time Mario would spent most of his time playing video games or roaming around the neighbourhood but he was not very social, in the summer of 2002 his family moved to Pangrati, Athens where Mario met his first friends Ledio and Giannhs, they would go out together everyday or gather at each others house to play video games, watch movies or listen to music, his friend Giannhs had a custom made data CD full of American rap songs, he would play that CD when they gathered at his house, the CD included songs from  50-Cent ,  G-Unit  ,  Eminem  ,  DMX  ,  2 Pac  ,  Dr.Dre  and many more, Mario was instantly hooked to the genre and began memorising the lyrics of the songs and tried to find more songs and albums from different sources, in 2003 Mario and his friends watched the movie 8 Mile and bought the soundtrack CD of the movie, Mario was hooked at the song  Lose yourself  by  Eminem  and was also inspired by  Eminem's  story, he would play the song every day repeatedly on the stereo while singing along and jumping around the house, eventually Mario and his friends begun to wear XXL clothing, inspired by the music videos that they watched, they begun to write their own rhymes but they had no idea on how to actually record a song or create a beat, in early 2004 Mario and his friends met 2Pt who was an experienced beat-maker and they bought five beats from him, 2Pt also helped them to understand the process of creating a song and also showed them the location of a local Recording Studio called  Feedback Studios  , at that time they also met Tani who was interested in music as well and the four of them would hang out everyday and begun to think of a name for their crew, they initially named their crew A-Unit but changed it to Al-Quatro (AL-4) a few days later because the name A-Unit was similar to the famous Hip-Hop group  G-Unit  , Mario at the time went by the name IceBlade, Al-4 recorded the song Prezantimi in 14 of September 2004 and they shared the song with their close friends and schoolmates via CD or from phone to phone via Bluetooth & Infrared, Al-4 received positive feedback from the few people that heard the song and were encouraged to create more.

Career
2005-2007

DOZA releases 12 singles with his crew Al-Quatro before merging with Da New chain and becoming a big Hip-Hop family with 9 members.

and makes his first appearance on stage in Athens,Greece

2008-2011

DOZA releases 8 singles with his group Da New Chain and collaborated with Kurorat fiks on their first Album Nga vendi i ngjarjes

on 3 songs : Stile me kile, Momenti per show & Shikim qeni, DOZA released his first solo Album titled  18 Vjet  under the B.A.V Records label on May 2010, during 2010 and 2011 DOZA performed on many events in Athens,Greece including the multicultural festival : B-Fest.

2012-2014

DOZA released his second solo Album titled  Xham fare  under the B.A.V Records label on January 2012 and released his first solo music video  Ruleta , produced by Armando Koroni (Andy V) and directed by Erion Kovaci and George Malekakis, DOZA also was featured on the short movie/documentary  DOZA  directed by Erion Kovaci and won best story and best editing prizes on May 2012. DOZA released his third solo Album on May 2014 titled '' Qesh pak! Pse kaq serioz? '' under the B.A.V Records label.

2015-2017

2018-2020

2020-2022