Ice MC's real name is Ian Campbell. Originally from Nottingham in the East Midlands of England where he was born on the 22nd March 1965, Ian grew up in the area of Nottingham called Hyson Green (sounds like 'Ice n'Green'). His parents had moved there from Jamaica in the 50's along with a large number of their country men. They lived together and strived to keep their identity and maintain their cultural traditions. They continued to speak their own dialect 'Jamaican Patua' which is not easy for other English people to understand although 30 years of Reggae Music has helped them. No better dialect for Raps and Rhymes just like the ones that he wrote for hits including Easy, It's a Rainy Day, Think About the Way, Take Away The Colour. Unfortunately he was never credited for these lyrics.

At school his initials IC soon got him the nickname ICE. At school he was good at sports and considered himself more manuel than intellectual. After leaving school at the age of 16, he began a training as carpenter but he didn't like it. He hung around Nottingham for a couple of years until in 1983 he joined a group of breakdancers (the Rock City Crew renamed The Extreme Team) and started touring Europe with them. That is what saved him from delinquancy. One such tour landed him up in Florence and he decided to check it out.

During one year he worked teaching breakdance then, after wounding his knee, he started doing a bit of DJing. In his spare time he was soon rapping and improvising in local bars and clubs. He also made two promo records one for a Club in Rimini and one for a label in Florence. In 1989 he met Robyx (Roberto Zanetti) the writer, producer and singer for now classic Italo-Disco group Savage. Exactly in 1989 he released his first hit Easy. This first single, was an immediate success and went Top 5 throughout Europe, No 3 in Germany and also was very big in South America. The LP Cinema followed shortly afterwards and was also a big success. The artist has toured throughout Europe including Russia and even Siberia, South America, and North Africa. Then came My World and then Ice N' Green which was his biggest selling CD with three big hits (went Gold in France with more than 100000 CD sold).

At first his image was of 'clean, next door guy'. Not anymore. When he released his mega hits like Take Away The Colour (1993), Think About The Way (released in 1994, one of his hugest hits, 125000 copies sold in France, # 5 in Israel, # 12 at MTV Europe), It's A Rainy Day (released in 1994 too, #11 in Israel, #16 at MTV Europe), he got that Bob Marley Jamaican look that he keeps also today. Also in his songs produced from 1989 to 1995 main female vocal was done by Jasmine then Alexia. Songs from that time are very rhythmic and typical Hi-Energy records with Reggae influence. Most of the texts written by Ice MC were in 'Jamaican Patua' which is a dialect similar to Pidgin.

Ice MC is a soul of the group. He is very dynamic when he performs. Rapping, Hip-hopping, Ragga-muffining and Jamaican Rhythms that all well describes Ice MC. He is also a cat lover, he likes beer and adores soul. Ian consideres himself as a very open-minded man. He works a lot and likes reading. In the first years of his success he only thought about having fun and partying, but now he has became more mature. His favourite song is Jammin' of Bob Marley. He is a smoker and consideres it is a big weakness. He admires Martin Luther King and hate intolerance.

In 1995 Ice MC was in dispute with his manager, label, producer, agent, publisher and co-author Roberto Zanetti. Ice first got himself a new management and then a new label (Polydor Germany). The dispute has still not been settled and Ice MC is sueing Zanetti for his songs and a couple billion Lire... Ian Campbell was probably almost gone when tracks such as Russian Roulette were released, in Sweden only.

After long period of silence, in 1996 he released his new single called Give Me The Light. This brilliant track became an instant hit in the Euro-dancefloor during the summer 1996. This song was a joint production of Ice MC and and the German group Masterboy. In August of 1996 Ice MC released his newest album called Dreadatour, with new songs written actually by several different writers. Surprisingly, this new album was given different reviews, from raving to mediocre or even bad. Anyway, it's an excellent eurodance album with many hot, danceable tracks (such as Anything Can Happen or Never Stop Believing). In this album Ice MC presented his new image, lyrics with a political content where he was free to express his feelings. The new female vocalist was the Italian singer Valentina Ducros. Ice MC started his European tournee in France in the club 'Le Windsor' in Arcachon, on the French Atlantic Ocean. Ice MC and his crew really enjoyed the sound and lights effects in this club even if this place lacked a decent dressing room. The place was big enough just for Valentina, so Ice MC and Lupo (the keyboardist) had to change their attire outside… One might say that for somebody mentally unstable such the beginning of the tournee could cause frustration, however entire group was cool about it. He closed his performance in the concert with his newest single : Music For Money. Next stop was Toulouse.

So far there were released two singles from the album Dreadatour : Music for Money and Give Me The Light. In 1996 Ian was also well chuffed to have a song he wrote (the lyrics) featured in such a good film as Trainspotting, but he is not actually getting a penny out of it. On the small screen scene Ice MC was filmed on location in Berlin for a walk on part in a TV serial called Trike due on air in Germany in April 1997. He also co-wrote two tracks for this program.

After 2 years of silence Ice MC came back in 1998 with 2 tracks entitled Let's Take It Easy and Energy.

Ice MC's hit Easy was covered in 2000 by Captain GQ. A Russian group called Come Back also covered Easy and Think About The Way.

2001 : Ian decided to return to England, to spend some time with his family, doing other projects. He needed a break : for a while he worked as a DJ and found new stimuli in writing. He was going through a bad patch, because of wrong investments and personal problems that forced him to find jobs away from the music scene.

2002 : At the end of the year he decided to return to Italy and to contact Robyx again. A compilation entitled Disco Collection gathering all his greatest hits from the DWA period was released.

2004 : Ice MC came back with a new haircut, a new label (Time Records, Airplay in France) and a brand new single entitled It's A Miracle. The follow-up was entitled My World. A new album was recorded : Cold Skool.

2005 : in December, the Dizzy Deejays released a cover of Think About The Way.

2006 : Frisco vs Ice MC - Think About The Way was released in the UK. The song is a faster remix with the original vocals and raps.