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Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) [1] is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current underground dance, pop, and electronic music, both domestic and foreign ( hi-NRG , Euro disco ) and developed into a diverse ...
Unlike most types of club and rave dancing, Para Para features specific synchronized movements for each song, much like line dancing. Para Para has been around since the early 1980s, when European countries started selling Italo disco and Eurodisco and, in the mid-to late 1970s, new wave and synthpop music in Japan. However, the dance did not ...
The following is a list of Italo disco artists and songs, divided in two sections. The first section includes notable Italo disco groups and solo artists. The second ...
Japan experienced Italo disco through the success of the West German group Arabesque, which broke up in 1984. This did not prevent the release of two Italo disco-sounding singles in 1985 and 1986, produced and mixed by Michael Cretu (of Enigma). The later solo success of Arabesque's lead singer Sandra further introduced this sound to Japan.
Gatti was married to Italo disco/Eurobeat artist Giancarlo Pasquini and has a son named Federico, who was born to him. [2] He has been raised by Gatti after their divorce, involved in music activity, and also active as a Eurobeat singer the same as his parents under the stage name Kaioh (Formerly known as Freddy Rodgers).
In 1990 house and techno music was becoming popular, and Italo disco began to decline in popularity. Nevertheless, Koto released another single, "Dragon's Legend". Containing samples from the 1983 video game Dragon's Lair, [4] [5] the song proved a minor hit in the Netherlands, peaking at No. 20. [6]
The group's two last singles, 'Ecstasy' and 'Time To Say Goodbye' became hits in various European markets after they split, as they sounded very close to the Italo disco sound which was a very popular music genre in Europe in the mid-1980s. Those songs spread and gained success through LP compilations of dance/pop music and bootleg tapes, so ...
The album featured other popular dance singles, including "Give Me Your Love," "Living In Japan" and the band's soft-ballad signature hit "Colour My Love", which became popular in American nightclubs due to its insistent synth bassline and easily mixable percussion intro.