- Paul Mazzolini
Paul Mazzolini (born
February 18 ,1960 ;stage name Gazebo), is an Italian musician. He has a legend status among the fans of the "italo-disco " music style, a variation of 1980seurodance (also known as eurodisco).He was born in
Beirut ,Lebanon , the son of an Italiandiplomat and an American singer. According to legend, he learned to play the guitar aged 10 to impress a German girl in his class.As a rather cosmopolitan teenager Mazzolini began a career in a variety of
jazz , rock and punk bands before meetingRome based producer Paul Micioni. The first release, "Masterpiece", was a minor hit in 1982.His footnote in charts history is his 1983 release "I Like Chopin" (popular opinion notwithstanding, the piano motif herein is not a Chopin composition).
The follow-up song "Lunatic" and the eponymous album also entered the Top 20 across
Europe .Since then Mazzolini has released more albums, not counting the occasional hit compilation with all his best track called "Portrait & Viewpoint". In autumn 2006 he released a new single called "Tears for Galileo", which achieved constant
radio airplay on Italian RAI Radio2 and peaked at #1 in theEuro dance chart.Recently Gazebo released a new single, "Virtual Love" after "Ladies!", from his upcoming new album "The Syndrone".
Discography
Albums
* "Gazebo" (Baby Records, 1983)
* "Telephone Mama" (Baby Records, 1984)
* "Univision" (Carosello, 1986)
* "The Rainbow Tales" (Carosello, 1988)
* "Sweet Life" (Carosello, 1989)
* "Scenes From The Broadcast" (Lunatic, 1991)
* "Portrait" (Giungla-BMG Italy, 1994)
* "Viewpoint" (Softworks, 1997)
* "Portrait & Viewpoint" (Softworks, 2000)
* "Tears For Galileo" (CD Single Softworks, 2006)
* "Ladies !" (iTunes Softworks, 2007)Singles
* "Masterpiece2 (1982; #2 Italy, #35 Germany, #5 Switzerland)
* "I Like Chopin" (1983; #1 Italy, #1 Germany, #1 Switzerland, #5 Netherlands)
* "Lunatic" (1983; #3 Italy, #4 Germany, #6 Switzerland)
* "Telephone Mama" (1984; #10 Italy)External links
* [http://www.gazebo.info Gazebo.info Official site]
* [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=286360271&id=286360241&s=143450 Virtual Love on iTunes]
* [http://www.thesyndrone.com The Syndrone Official Site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/gazeboinfo Gazebo at MySpace]
* [http://www.myspace.com/softworks Softworks at MySpace]
* [http://www.gazebo.ru Russian Gazebo site]
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