The point of this news article is to bring awareness to and hopefully prevent any
promoters and/or artists doing business with a certain R&B superstar named Mario. In
this industry, like all faucets of life, you find good and bad people. To do good business,
you are rewarded… Bad business (especially in the entertainment industry) must be
seen and heard in the public and aired out like dirty laundry so others aren’t burned
from shady business tactics.
Late last month, (January 22nd) – the multi-platinum singer Mario was scheduled to
appear and perform at Huston-Tillotson University Homecoming. For those who do not know,
Tillotson is a historically black college located in Austin, Texas. As a sign of good
business and excitement to attend the event, Mario arrived in Austin at 12PM sharp. He
was chauffeured throughout the great city of Austin prior to the show.
Mario’s good friend, the aforementioned Davond Ballard was left in charge of collecting
the money for the show. Ballard (who could formerly be found on Twitter under the
name Hollywood Vito) has booked many shows in the past for Mario, was also set to do
a pre walk of the venue (which was recorded).
Mario’s camp later discovered that Ballard had taken more money out of the purse
than he was supposed to. Mario was understandably infuriated and even was caught
in a physical altercation with Ballard in front of the Sheraton Hotel were Mario was
scheduled to stay at.
Although the stolen amount of money had come from someone directly in Mario’s camp
(an approximate amount of $2,000 of the agreed $9,000 payment was taken), Mario
made a poor decision and decided to stiff the good students of Huston-Tillotson. That is
right; he left them high and dry by not showing up to their homecoming. Instead, Mario
remained at his Sheraton Hotel until the event was over and immediately left.
Although still not right or recommended, to steal from a bar or nightclub is one thing, but
to steal from what is known as a historically black college is another.
Once again, we hope that this news articles prevents all promoters and event
organizers from doing business with Mario.
Here is some evidence of Mario’s no show:
1. Twitter advertising event, which Mario retweeted from his friend, Davond Ballard’s
page
2. Twitter post apologizing for no show
3. Huston-Tillotson student tweeting during and after event about Mario no show.
There is also an audio drop of Mario given to university saying he would be there and
there is access to his hotel confirmation numbers
No Super Mario Homcoming
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