Martinelli (band)

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Cenerentola (Cinderella)
  DE 8th 08/26/1985 (18 weeks)
  AT 5 09/01/1985 (12 weeks)
  CH 6th September 15, 1985 (11 weeks)
  IT 10 39/1985 (5 weeks)
revolution
  CH 18th 07/27/1986 (5 weeks)

Martinelli is a music project by the Italian producer Aldo Martinelli, who produced the Italo disco bands Scotch and Raggio di Luna , and the American singer Simona Zanini.

biography

Aldo Martinelli was born in Milan . He attended the Conservatory of Music in Alessandria and graduated in piano . He later played keyboard in big bands and worked as a music teacher in a school. In the early 1980s he was also active as a songwriter and wrote, for example, B. Take a Chance , the theme song of the Italian television program Premiatissima .

Simona Zanini was born in the United States and came to Italy as a child in the 1970s. After a casting with the La Bionda Brothers, she got a recording contract with CBS Records and worked with some well-known Italian musicians.

When Martinelli was looking for a singer for his project Doctor's Cat, he met Zanini and recorded the track Feel the Drive with her in 1983 . Because her mother tongue is English, it was interesting to work together abroad. So in the next few years various disco titles with Zanini as the singer were created.

With Cenerentola (Italian for Cinderella ), the Martinelli project had an international hit in 1985. The follow-up single Revolution made it onto the Swiss charts. In Italy, the success lasted a little longer, but subsided with the ebb of the Italo-Disco wave.

Discography

Singles

  • 1983: Voice (In the Night) (7 ")
  • 1985: Cenerentola
  • 1986: O. Express
  • 1986: revolution
  • 1987: O. Express
  • 1987: Summer Lovers
  • 1987: Victoria

EPs

  • 2011. American Band

swell

  1. ↑ Chart discography
  2. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on September 1, 2015 (Italian, paid subscription access).
  3. ↑ Bizzy & Co. - Take a Chance
  4. ↑ Doctor's Cat at Discogs (English)

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