Giorgio Moroder

At 83 years old, Giorgio Moroder has this physical status:

Giorgio Moroder (born 26 April 1940) is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ, and record producer.

Moroder, nicknamed "Father of Disco," is credited with inventing Italo disco and experimental dance music, and his work with synthesizers has influenced several music styles, including new wave, house, and techno music.

He is the producer of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, a recording studio used by many musicians, including The Rolling Stones, Electric Light Orchestra, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, and Elton John.

During the mid-to-late 1970s disco period, Donna Summer recorded singles such as "Love to Love Your Baby", "I Feel Love," "Last Dance," "MacArthur Park," "Bad Girls," "Dim All the Lights," "Enough Is Enough"), and "On the Radio."

He also released many albums during the 1980s, including the synthesizer-driven From Here to Eternity (1977) and E=MC2 (1979), the first album to be completely digitally recorded.

The soundtrack for the film Midnight Express, which included the international hit "Chase," received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

In addition, he produced a number of electronic disco songs for the Three Degrees, two albums for sparks, and a handful of Bonnie Tyler's albums Bitterblue, as well as her 1985 hit "Here She Comes."

He composed "Unestate italiana," the official theme song of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in 1990. He has compiled a number of songs for many artists, including David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Irene Cara, Janet Jackson, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Blondie, Japan, and France Joli.

Moroder has stated that his work on which he is most proud is is Berlin's "Take My Breath Away," which earned him two Golden Globes (for Best Original Score and Best Original Song) and the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1986; he had received the same accolades in 1983 for "Flashdance... What a Feeling."

Moroder has also received four Grammy Awards, two People's Choice Awards, and more than 100 Golden and Platinum discs in addition to the three Academy Awards and four Golden Globes.

He was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2004.

Early life

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder was born in Urtij (Urtij) and German as St. Ulrich in Gröden, Ladin, on April 26, 1940, in what was then the Kingdom of Italy. Giovanni Giorgio's birth name is Giovanni Giorgio, but his mother (pronounced [hansj]), a German version of his two first names, grew up in a multicultural Ladin-, German-, and Italian-speaking environment in northern Italy, despite living in a multicultural Ladin-, German-, and Italian-speaking environment. Ulrich Moroder, one of his three brothers, is one of his three brothers. His father was a hotel concierge.

Personal life

Moroder currently resides in Beverly Hills, California. He was married to Francisca Gutierrez from 1990 to her death in 2022, and the couple has one, Alessandro.

He is a friend of Michael Holm, with whom he produced the 1973 album Spinach 1 under the moniker "Spinach." Giorgio und ich, Holm's song, is dedicated to Moroder.

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Career

At the age of 15, he began teaching himself guitar, inspired by Paul Anka's Diana. He began touring Europe as a professional musician at the age of 18. He performed at night and made recordings with two Revox recorders during the day. Around the age of 25, he went to an aunt's in Berlin, where he worked as a sound engineer. "Ich sprenge alle Ketten," Ricky Shayne's single "I bust all the chains"), which was composed by then-unknown Moroder and Michael Holm, became a German hit. Moroder's and Holm's coverage of Sir Douglas Quintet's single, Mendocino, was the second on the show. Moroder migrated to Munich after two years in Berlin.

Moroder made his first steps in music at the Scotch Club in Aachen and later released a few singles under the name "Giorgio" after heading to Berlin in 1963, singing in Italian, Spanish, English, and German.

He went to Munich in 1968 and rose to fame as "Look Looky" was given a gold disc in 1970. In the early 1970s, he founded the Musicland Studios. Moroder had a number of hits in his own name, including "Son of My Father" in 1972, a No. 73, often working with lyricist Pete Bellotte. Chicory Tip was a hit in the United Kingdom before launching the synthesizer-driven From Here to Eternity, a chart that was first published in 1977. "I Feel Love," Donna Summer's first single in the Hi-NRG style, was co-written and produced the first track in the Hi-NRG style that year. He released "Chase," the film's theme, the following year. These songs have had some success in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe, and all around Europe, and discomania was on display. "Chase" was the score for Midnight Express, his first Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1979.

In 1979, Moroder introduced E=MC2. He made three albums between 1977 and 1979 under the name Munich Machine. He created and released two film soundtrack albums, the first for Foxes and the second for American Gigolo (both 1980). On the disco label Casablanca Records, Donna Summer's hit song "On the Radio," which Moroder produced and co-wrote, was included in a double album of the Foxes soundtrack. The Foxes soundtrack features a song titled "Bad Love," written and performed by Cher Cher and Moroder. The American Gigolo soundtrack featured Blondie's "Call Me," a top-one hit in the United States and UK. On the disco/dance charts, the album's tracks were the highest play for five weeks. He produced the soundtrack for the film Scarface (1983), including David Bowie's hit song "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" and produced the soundtrack for the film Scarface (1982). The album was exclusive to a few countries and strictly through import in the United States when it first debut. Moroder's track list included "Scarface (Push It to the Limit)" by Paul Engemann, "Rush Rush" by Debbie Harry, and Amy Holland's "She's on Fire" by Amy Holland.

Moroder produced a new restoration and edit of the silent film Metropolis (1927), as well as a modern soundtrack. Pat Benatar, Jon Anderson, Adam Ant, Billy Squier, Loverboy, Bonnie Tyler, and Freddie Mercury have all recorded seven pop music tracks from this album. As a way of increasing continuity, he integrated the original intertitles into the film as subtitles. Since the original speed was uncertain, this option was divisive. It was referred to as the "Moroder version" in film buffs, with outspoken critics and supporters of the film falling into respective camps. Moroder's version was a welcome addition, according to the majority of commentators, regardless of film purists' viewpoints. Moroder produced the album Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, a UK singles chart hit with "Together in Electric Dreams," the title track to the 1984 film Electric Dreams. He appeared in the same year as he collaborated with Kajagoo frontman Limahl on their international hit "The NeverEnding Story."

Moroder worked with his protégé Harold Faltermeyer (of "Axel F") and lyricist Tom Whitlock to produce the score for "Top Gun (1986), which featured Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone" and Berlin's "Take My Breath Away." He wrote the theme song for the film Over the Top, "Meet Me Half Way," which was also performed by Loggins. Moroder co-wrote Falco's "Body Next to Body" in 1987 and co-wrote it. For the 1988 Seoul Olympics and "Unestate Italy" for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, Moroder composed the official theme songs, "Reach Out" for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and "Hand in Hand" for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and "Under the Hand" for the 1990 Seoul Olympics. Moroder's fourteenth studio album, Forever Dancing, was his last solo project for years, but he took a long break in 1993. He has released no new albums in the two decades, instead focusing more on remixes and visual art in the 1990s and early 2000s. Daniel Walker produced a soundtrack for Leni Riefenstahl's last film Impressionen unter Wasser. In Beijing, his song Forever Friends was featured in the Olympic Games.

Moroder brought back to music with Google's "Racer" theme song in 2012. Moroder contributed to Daft Punk's 2013 studio album Random Access Memories, admitting that he was a fan of their song "One More Time" before joining the company. Moroder's voice and tale are included on the album track "Giorgio." "My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio," he says. He DJ'd at the Red Bull Music Academy in New York in summer 2013. Moroder reworked an old classic from the 1960s, "Doo Bee Doo" (2014 version), which was used in the Volkswagen 2014 Super Bowl commercial, "Wings." Lana Del Rey, an electro-pop singer, and madeon, also revealed that he was planning to work with electro-pop artist Madeon and American singer Lana Del Rey. Adult Swim released a new Hi-NRG Disco single by Moroder on June 9, 2014 (named "Giorgio's Theme")). "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" was also remixed by Moroder and Lady Gaga in Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga's "I Can't Give You Anything But Love."

Déjà Vu, Moroder's solo studio album, was released in 2015. Among other things, it includes collaborations with Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, Sia, Charli XCX, Mikky Ekko, Foxes, and Matthew Koma. The preparations with Kylie Minogue, "Right Here, Right Now," was leaked to the public on January 16, a few months before its official launch. The album, as well as a video teaser, was officially released on 20 January 2015 and debuted on the US Dance Club Songs for the first time in 15 years, becoming Moroder's first chart-topper in 15 years. Moroder supported Minogue during her Australian leg of her Kiss Me Once Tour in March 2015. Moroder and Sia collaborated on the title track from Moroder's LP Déjà Vu in May 2015.

Moroder appeared on Kylie Minogue's EP "Your Body" in September 2015. In 2016, he and Raney Shockne wrote and performed the song to Tron RUN/r, which was released in 2016. On May 31, 2016, the soundtrack album was released. Moroder made "One More Day" for Sistar, a Korean girl group, in October 2016. On October 8, they premiered the album live at DMC Festival 2016, with Moroder in the audience. On the 22nd of November, the song's music video was released alongside the official digital release of the song. Moroder returned to the studio with Duran Duran, co-writing and producing two songs, "Tonight United" and "Beautiful Lies," for their October 2021 album release Future Past.

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