What does music and medicine have in common? Well…perhaps only the injections both seem to glory in administering! It’s the sort of pain you don’t have to be masochistic to enjoy, certainly as concerns the sensational Reggae – Soul crooner and Medical Doctor, Mario Evon, whose cultured tones and authentic reggae rhythms serve to heal and enliven.
“I’ve been fortunate to be able to design my life in a way where I work part-time in medicine and part-time in music, so even though challenging, it is doable” asserts Mario whose birth name is Mario Evon Guthrie, a past student of Campion College, the University of the West Indies and Berklee College of Music (Boston, Massachusetts).
“I found Guthrie to be bulky to pronounce, so I decided to use my first and middle names. It also forms the acronym, M.E., which I thought was appropriate, as I am simply ME, and encourage others to be themselves as well”.
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