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name : maximilian gilles boucher ferro nicknames : max, maxie, ferret gender & pronouns : cis man, he / him age & date of birth : 33 ( june 26, 1990 ) hometown : portofino, italy nationality : american, italian occupation : record producer / songwriter / dj / club owner sexuality : bisexual language/s spoken : english, italian, french faceclaim : richard madden career claims: mark ronson, dan nigro, charli xcx

trigger warnings: mention of a head injury & drug overdose.

FAMILY

mother : camila isabelle boucher ( inès de la fressange fc ). a french socialite, hails from a wealthy family who owns a chain of hotels and restaurants across europe. also a former supermodel in the the late 70s throughout the 80s. has since then ventured into fashion design and perfumery.

father : giovanni lorenzo ferro ( pierce brosnan fc ). an english-italian former formula 1 driver who raced with mclaren, ferrari, and williams. has four world championships under his belt and retired in 2001. currently the team principal of the mclaren f1 team.

stepfather : david gideon langdon ( tbd fc ). an english drummer for the rock band the kicks, which was popular in the 70s and 80s.

siblings : max has three biological older siblings from his father's marriage with his mother and a twin sister, older step siblings from his stepfather's prior marriages, and two younger paternal half-sisters, casey (24, gracie abrams fc ), a singer, and mia ( kaia gerber fc ), a model.

HISTORY

max was born in portofino, italy, to a french mother and an english-italian father. camila boucher is a socialite, businesswoman and one of the world's most in-demand supermodels in the 80s while giovanni ferro is a former four-time formula 1 world champion until his retirement in 2001.

with the twins being the youngest and both parents having been busy with their own careers (mom was always doing business stuff and dad was constantly traveling for his races), max and his twin sister were raised by nannies who max would constantly terrorize, so his mother would keep having to find replacements after they quit.

max's father made him get into karting at age 4, but giovanni was too intense all the time (think jos verstappen but not as successful lmao) and max just wasn't as serious about it as he was. it wasn't until after sustaining a head injury from a huge accident during a tournament when he was eight that his mother made him stop karting.

being such a hyperactive little boy, now he had all that energy and nowhere to put it, which posed a problem for the family, especially after he set the living room carpet on fire one christmas eve, his parents made the decision to ship him off to a boarding school in turin, italy, where his paternal grandfather lived, when he was just 9 years old.

he would stay in boarding school until he was thirteen, and it was only thanks to rather hefty donations from his family that he wasn't expelled almost immediately for the trouble he often caused.

however, boarding school wasn't an entirely futile endeavor — in fact, it was here that he discovered his love for music after curriculum-mandated music lessons had him learning how to play the trumpet and, later on, the drums.

by the time he returned to america, his parents were already divorced and his mother was just about to get remarried to dave langdon, the drummer for the kicks, a popular english rock band in the 70s and 80s.

dave was great, and he was very good to his mother in a way that his father often wasn't. it didn't take long for max to acclimate to dave as a father figure, and it helped that music was something that they got to bond over.

max recorded his first song when he was fourteen. he then burned his first EP in CDs he would submit to music producers and sell to people so he can buy new gear (his family had the means to buy it for him and dave does give him old gear and gifts him some for birthdays and christmases, but he wanted to feel like he was building something for himself, you know?). nobody ever bought anything, so he resorted to just giving the CDs away on the street.

started DJing when he was 17 in clubs in new york city, adapting the stage name BADSIGNS, which he's since then been using for all his musical ventures. still below the legal age of drinking, dave used to pay the club owners not to give max any alcohol, though it was easy to slip past that measure.

got into juilliard where he majored in composition while continuing to spin in clubs. here, he got really into the party scene, started drinking heavily, developed a pill dependence, did a lot of cocaine.

initially gained popularity for the remixes he would play in clubs and later post to this attracted the attention of local artists who wanted to collaborate with him, a lot of whom have actually made it big now.

he dropped out of juilliard on his third year after he got signed on to his first record label.

his sound has evolved from hip hop and jazz and funk to dance and pop throughout the years but claims to take inspiration from a variety of genres and eclectic influences.

started ghostwriting songs for big artists under the moniker g. gagne (his middle name and his mother's maiden name) since he was 21 but it wasn't until he was 25 that he started getting proper credit.

when he was 23, he was involved in a scandal when he entered a relationship with a married actress twenty-five years his senior. after the actress and her husband divorced, she and max lived together in new york city. they were together for an entire year, after which, the actress and her ex-husband got back together. just a few weeks later, max would land himself in the hospital after overdosing on oxy, which he claims to have been an accident.

can be quite a workaholic and always wants to be busy and stimulated. has been putting out record after record since he started his career, producing music for artists big and small, making remixes, and has even gotten into film scoring.

formed his own record label, futz records, in 2016 as an imprint of columbia records where he signed a newcomer (who would later be a frequent and favorite collaborator of his) and several other small artists.

in 2020, he bought a house in los angeles adjoined to his own personal studio where he prefers to work most of the time since everything, from the interior to the equipment, is pretty much customized and personally handpicked.

in 2021, he along with a childhood friend, opened their own nightclub in hollywood called terrazzo (known affectionately as the razz by celebrities and locals) which he says initially came to be because he wanted to give smaller artists a platform to introduce themselves, as there are performances every night. max spins only on the weekends.

HEADCANONS

was the drummer for a small band called the confectioners with two friends from LA when he was 13. it definitely started as a gag and the songs they would write are largely inspired by weird al yankovic but then they realized that they actually sounded good, got to play a couple of gigs in the city, but it wasn't anything they took seriously. the three are still good friends.

still very much into cars, hence why a lot of his records tend to be car-themed. he still enjoys karting in his free time and attends grands prix whenever he can, also to support his father.

the karting accident he had when he was 4 and the head injury he sustained from it had affected his fine motor skills, which makes tasks such as writing with a pen or pencil, doing or undoing his buttons, or tying his shoelaces difficult. it isn't so bad when he's playing musical instruments since he's normally very focused and the actions are continuous, but he does have some bad days.

also related to the head injury are the recurring headaches and migraines he's had since he was around 7 years old, which is how he managed to get prescriptions to painkillers he overdosed on.

max is an avid gamer and has a twitch account ( twitch.tv/mister.ferret ) where he sometimes streams himself and his friends playing games. he especially likes sim racing and sometimes even streams with f1 drivers from the current grid.

TIMELINE

1990 , max is born in portofino, italy.

1990 - 1999 (age 1-9) , lived in monte carlo, monaco.

1994 (age 4) , has a near-fatal karting accident.

1999 (age 9) , studies in a boarding school in turin, italy.

2003 (age 13) , moves back to america. mother got married to dave langdon. lives between new york city and los angeles. starts a small comedy band in his mother and stepfather's garage called the confectioners.

2004 (age 14) , records his first EP from his bedroom.

2007 (age 17) , starts his career as an amateur dj in new york city clubs.

2008 (age 18) , gets into juilliard.

2011 (age 21) , drops out of juilliard. gets signed on to his first record label.

2013 (age 22-23) , puts out his first EP version as a signed artist. also gets involved as the third party in an actress' extramarital affair.

2014 (age 24) , hospitalized for a pill overdose/suspected suicide attempt. releases his first studio album, version.

2015 (age 25) , releases his second studio album, record collection.

2016 (age 26) , forms his own record label, futz records.

2017 (age 27) , releases his third studio album, uptown special.

2019 (age 28) , wins an academy award for best original song for his writing credits in the song 'shallow' for the 2019 remake of the film a star is born.

2020 (age 30) , releases his fourth studio album, late night feelings.

2021 (age 31) , opens his nightclub terrazzo with his best friend.

DISCOGRAPHY

VERSION, 2014

RECORD COLLECTION, 2015

MORTDECAI (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK), 2015

UPTOWN SPECIAL, 2017

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (ORIGINAL SCORE), 2018

LATE NIGHT FEELINGS, 2020

BODIES BODIES BODIES (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK), 2022

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (ORIGINAL SCORE), 2023

BARBIE THE ALBUM, 2023

BARBIE (SCORE FROM THE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE), 2023

AWARDS

tbd.

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