There are several bands with the name Mephisto. 1. Mephisto is an Italian dance project created by Maurizio D'ambrosio. Maurizio D'ambrosio alias Mephisto was born in Verbania (Italy) on November 13th 1963. He started his career as DJ on the beginning of 1980. Du to his everlasting passion for music, he started to study self-taught all the recording studios innoations of that time like samplers, synthetizeds, effects, midi, etc. From 1990 to 1992 he practised these innovations in a disco club called Kursaal-Verbana