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Giorgio Moroder
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Italian record producer and composer (born 1940)
OverviewAI-generated
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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1940-04-26
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 579,160
- Total plays
- 6,987,580
Tags
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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,930x
- Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,817x
- Homo Sacer
· 2020 · cited 6,800x
- Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,626x
- Equilibrium constants from a modified Redlich-Kwong equation of state
· 1972 · cited 5,596x
via Crossref · CC0
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.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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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.