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Giorgio Moroder
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Italian record producer and composer (born 1940)
Film & TV
Urtijëi, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder is an Italian music producer and composer. Thanks to the Eurodisco sound he composed on the synthesizer together with Donna Summer and Pete Bellotte in Munich in the 1970s, he is considered a pioneering figure in electronic dance music.
Known for
- Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer : I Feel Love — Self : Author, Composer & Producer (archive footage)2026
- The Sparks Brothers — Self2021
- Disco Europe Express — Self - Musician2019
- Soundbreaking — Self2016
- Daft Punk Unchained — Self2015
- What Difference Does It Make? — Self2014
- Station to Station2014
- Donna Summer: Hot Stuff — Self2013
- Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators — Himself2013
- Markus Lanz — Self2008
via TMDB
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Giorgio
- Family name
- Moroder
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Urtijëi
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- Ladin
- Native language
- Italian
- Genre
- dance music
- Instrument
- synthesizer
- Record label
- Polydor
- Official website
- www.giorgiomoroder.com
- Image
- Giorgio Moroder (2).jpg
- Work location
- Los Angeles
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- date of birth
- 1940-04-26
- Commons category
- Giorgio Moroder
- topic's main category
- Category:Giorgio Moroder
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- birth name
- Giovanni Giorgio Moroder
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- social media followers
- 42768
- name in native language
- Hansjörg Moroder
- ethnic group
- Ladins
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Giorgio Moroder
- topic has template
- Template:Giorgio Moroder
- pseudonym
- Giorgio
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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.