Song:I Don't Wanna Know
Album:Hurt No More
Mario Winans was a house producer at Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment. He has only recorded two albums as a singer. I Don't Wanna Know was a top five hit in 2004. He was born Mario Brown Aug. 29, 1974 in Orangeburg, SC. His father is Pastor Ronald E. Brown. When his parents divorced, his mother married Marvin Winans of the Winans gospel music family. He took the Winans surname. His mother is singer Vickie Winans. Taking the stepfather's surname is not unusual except in this case it's a famous surname. Winans started producing and writing right after he graduated from high school. His first producer credit was for his mom's 1991 album The Lady. He also produced Anointed, Pebbles and Tamia. Winans joined Motown as a staff producer and he released the 1997 album Story of my Heart. That album went nowhere and Winans left Motown for Bad Boy in 1999. Among others, he produced Total, Carl Thomas and P. Diddy himself. His biggest hit at the time was the 2001 single Peaches & Creme for 112. Then Winans released the 2004 album Hurt No More. I Don't Wanna Know reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is based on a sample from The Fugees 1996 single Ready Or Not. That sampled the 1987 Enya song Boadicea. Bad Boy forgot to credit Enya so they had to fork over plenty of cash and give her a "featuring" credit though she doesn't appear on the record. Of course P. Diddy does the rap. The album is available as a budget CD. Though Winans hasn't recorded since then, he continues to produce hits for mostly Bad Boy artists and plenty of others. He pled guilty to income tax evasion in 2016 and was sentenced to five years probation. Here's the video for I Don't Wanna Know by Mario Winans featuring Enya and P. Diddy.
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