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Michael Mauzone "Heart Attack"
Music Director & Assistant Program Director, WOWI, WSVY, WSVV

 

Michael Mauzone is a man who puts his "heart" into his work. He wears it everyday as Heart Attack, Music Director and Assistant Program Director for WOWI, WSVY and WSVV. Heart Attack (as he is affectionately known throughout the music industry) is a music industry visionary who got his start in the business performing as house DJ at various local clubs before expanding his talents into a career in radio. His first stint in radio came in 1980 at WRAP. The next move was enrollment at Norfolk State University, and in 1983 while still in school he applied for an internship at WRAP as an engineering assistant and got hired!

 

Continuing to climb the ladder of success, Heart Attack moved on to WBSK and later in 1991 to WOWI as Music Director. WBSK changed its format and call letters to WSVY and Heart Attack was named Music Director. Amid all the movement and station changes, Heart Attack found the time to form his own production company, GIGOTACK MUSIC – a name he developed that derived from combining gigolo and heart attack. Gigotack Music consults music labels about their upcoming singles, performs re-mix and editing services for its clients. Some noteworthy Gigotack remixes have been "5:00 In The Morning by Non-Chalant, White Label's "Pick Up The Phone" by Levi White, "Comfort Zone" by Vanessa Williams and "Remember The Time" by the gloved one… Michael Jackson!

 

Last year with General Manager Janet Armstead and other co-workers, Heart Attack successfully organized and presented Norfolk's "First Annual Music Symposium." The highly successful Music Symposium was organized to help people understand the music business and how to get into it. Perspectives were presented from behind the scenes, to on stage, to on camera, to in the studio. The event drew names like, Warren G, Timbaland, Lonnie Liston Smith, Gerald Levert, jazz pianist Bob Baldwin, Blaque and many more. Aside from planning the Music Symposium, Heart Attack is also the primary organizer for WOWI's Jamz Fest that annually attracts more than 15,000 fans! This exciting festival began with six (6) acts and over the years has grown to a 13-act, all day, tightly produced concert. WOWI's Jamz Fest benefits the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument, The Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, Stop The Violence and local crime prevention programs.

 

Although majors like KKBT Los Angeles, WBLS New York and even Virgin Records have attempted to woo Heart Attack into their camps… he remains in Norfolk, VA. Recently married, his wife Natalie may have the key to secret that keeps Heart Attack's heart in Norfolk!

 


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