Matt Bianco

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Matt Bianco
Mark Reilly by Matt Bianco (2014)
Mark Reilly by Matt Bianco (2014)
General information
origin United Kingdom
Genre (s) Latin pop , new jazz
founding 1982
Website www.mattbianco.com
Founding members
Mark Reilly
Danny White
Kito Poncioni
Current occupation
singing
 Mark Reilly
former members
Keyboard
 Danny White (1984, 2004)
bass
 Kito Poncioni (1984)
singing
 Basia Trzetrzelewska (1984, 2004)
Keyboard

Former 5a = Ronnie Ross Former 5b = Baritone Saxophone Former 6a = Guy Barker Former 6b = Flugelhorn Former 7a = Chris Dean Former 7b = Trombone Former 8a = Ray Warleigh

Former 8b = flute
|| Mark Fisher (1985-2003, 2009-2016 †)

Matt Bianco is a pop music group founded in Great Britain in 1982 , whose first line-up consisted of former Blue Rondo à la Turk musicians Kito Poncioni (bass), Mark Reilly (vocals) and Danny White (keyboard).

history

The first album "Whose side are you on?" was very successful. In particular by the brisk underlining of the wind instruments. The baritone saxophonist Ronnie Ross was at times considered the best baritone saxophone player in Europe. After his untimely death, the band dedicated the track "Ronnie's Samba" to him. For the recordings of the first album Whose Side Are You On? the Polish vocalist Basia Trzetrzelewska was hired. Poncioni left the band shortly before the release of the first single to return to their native Brazil.

Whose Side Are You On? was extremely successful, but Basia and Danny White left the band to start Basia's solo career. Mark Reilly asked the former Second Image and Wham! -Keyboarder Mark Fisher joined the band, and together they wrote and produced nine of Matt Bianco's eleven albums. Mark Fisher passed away on December 12, 2016.

In 2004, however, White, Reilly and Trzetrzelewska, reunited, released the successful album Matt's Mood and in 2005 embarked on a world tour. However, since 2006 they have been working separately again. The style of music can best be described as New Jazz , although they also played other genres. The name of the group is fictitious and is supposed to represent a spy.

Chart successes

Her first hit was Get Out of Your Lazy Bed . In addition to the chart positions shown in the table, the group was particularly successful in the Dutch and Belgian / Flemish charts.

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1984 Whose Side Are You On DE3
platinum
platinum

(62 weeks)DE 		AT1 (42 weeks)
AT 		CH12 (24 weeks)
CH 		UK35
gold
gold

(39 weeks)UK
1986 Matt Bianco DE8 (21 weeks)
DE 		AT1 (18 weeks)
AT 		CH3 (15 weeks)
CH 		UK26th
silver
silver

(13 weeks)UK
1988 indigo DE35 (11 weeks)
DE 		AT9 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH16 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK23
gold
gold

(13 weeks)UK
1990 The Best Of Matt Bianco - - - UK49
silver
silver

(2 weeks)UK
2004 Matt's mood DE83 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - -
2017 Gravity - - - -

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1984 Get Out of Your Lazy Bed
Whose Side Are You On 		DE8 (31 weeks)
DE 		- CH14 (7 weeks)
CH 		UK15 (9 weeks)
UK
Sneaking Out the Backdoor / Matt's Mood
Whose Side Are You On 		- - - UK44 (7 weeks)
UK
Whose Side Are You On?
Whose Side Are You On 		- - - UK83 (5 weeks)
UK
Half a Minute
Whose Side Are You On 		DE14 (19 weeks)
DE 		- - UK23 (11 weeks)
UK
1985 More Than I Can Bear
Whose Side Are You On 		DE20 (15 weeks)
DE 		- - UK50 (7 weeks)
UK
Yeh Yeh
Matt Bianco 		DE7 (16 weeks)
DE 		AT22 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH10 (11 weeks)
CH 		UK13 (10 weeks)
UK
1986 Just Can't Stand It
Matt Bianco 		DE38 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH14 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK66 (4 weeks)
UK
Dancing in the Street
Matt Bianco 		- - - UK64 (6 weeks)
UK
1988 Don't Blame It on That Girl / Wap-Bam-Boogie
Indigo 		- - - UK11 (13 weeks)
UK
Good Times
Indigo 		- - - UK55 (3 weeks)
UK
1989 Nervous / Wap Bam Boogie
Indigo 		- - - UK59 (2 weeks)
UK
Wap Bam Boogie
Indigo 		- - - UK76 (5 weeks)
UK
1994 Our Love
Another Time Another Place 		DE71 (11 weeks)
DE 		- - -

Discography

Studio albums

  • Whose Side Are You On? (1984) Mark Reilly, Danny White, Basia Trzetrzelewska
  • Matt Bianco (1986), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • Indigo (1988), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • Samba in Your Casa (1991), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • Yeah! Yeah! (1993) Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • Another Time Another Place (1994), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • Gran Via (1995), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • World Go Round (1998), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • A / Collection (1999) (Best of)
  • Rico (2000), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • Echoes (2002), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • Matt's Mood (2004), Mark Reilly, Danny White, Basia Trzetrzelewska
  • Hifi Bossanova (2009), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • Hideaway (2013), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • The Things You Love (2016, Matt Bianco (Mark Reilly) meets New Cool Collective)

Best of albums

  • The Best of Matt Bianco (1990), Mark Reilly, Mark Fisher
  • Sunshine Days (The Official Greatest Hits) 2010

More singles

  • Macumba , 1991
  • What A Fool Believes , 1991
  • Lost In You , 1995
  • Hifi Bossanova , 2009
  • Lost In You (Banana Republic Remixes) , 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Reilly ( Memento of March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Security check required. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Chart placements by Matt Bianco in other countries
  4. ↑ a b chart sources:
  5. ↑ Awards: DE search UK search