Mariano is a native Spanish voice talent from Caracas, Venezuela. While studying medicine and natural sciences in Caracas, he completed the German Abitur in Cologne and then pursued studies in Romance languages and musicology, followed by a degree in Spanish philology at the University of Barcelona. He has been working as a voice artist for more than 20 years in various fields such as advertising, documentaries, TV features, corporate and image films, dubbing, news, factual texts, audiobooks, telephone announcements and football commentary. Since 2012 he has been living in Berlin, where he works, among others, for Deutsche Welle as a voice talent, translator and director. He speaks accent-free Latin American Spanish.