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Giorgio Moroder

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Also known as Giovanni Giorgio Moroder, Hansjörg Moroder

Italian record producer and composer (born 1940)

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Giorgio Moroder is an Italian male artist who began his work period in 1965. His musical output is associated with genres including disco, electronic, synthpop, classic pop and rock, dance, and Italian styles. He is also linked to soundtrack music and 80s music. Moroder has published six works and is referenced by 1,736 other encyclopedia articles.

He uses the pseudonym "Giorgio." In a quote, he noted that his name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls him Giorgio. His official website is giorgiomoroder.com.

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Person · Open Library

Works
6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1940-04-26
classic pop and rockdancediscoelectronicitalianitalo-disco

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
579,160
Total plays
6,987,580

Tags

DiscoelectronicsynthpopSoundtrack80s

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer. Dubbed the "Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music. His work with synthesizers had a significant influence on several music genres such as hi-NRG, Italo disco, synthpop, new wave, house, and techno music. While in Munich in the 1970s, Moroder started Oasis Records, later a subdivision of Casablanca Records. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Giorgio+Morod

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Quotes

  • My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio.
  • Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and of music being "correct," you can do whatever you want. So, nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

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Key facts

Born
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder , ( 1940-04-26 ) 26 April 1940 (age 86) , Urtijëi , South Tyrol, Italy
Genres
Euro disco
Occupations
Composer record producer
Works
Discography
Years active
1958–present
Labels
London Oasis Casablanca Hansa RCA Virgin
Spouse
Francisca Gutiérrez ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 ; died 2022 ) ​
Website
giorgiomoroder .com

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Encyclopedic overview

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder ( Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈdʒordʒo moˈrɔːder], Austrian German: [mɔˈroːdɐ]; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and record producer. Dubbed the "Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music. His work with synthesizers had a significant influence on several music genres such as hi-NRG, Italo disco, synth-pop, new wave, house, and techno music.

While in Munich in the 1970s, Moroder started Oasis Records, later a subdivision of Casablanca Records. He is the founder of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, a recording studio used by many artists including the Rolling Stones, Donna Summer, Electric Light Orchestra, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Deborah Harry, Queen, and Elton John. He produced singles for Donna Summer during the mid-to-late 1970s disco era, including "Love to Love You Baby", "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "On the Radio". During this period, he also released many albums, including the synthesizer-driven From Here to Eternity (1977) and E=MC (1979).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Giorgio Moroder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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