Robert Miles (musician)

Robert Miles in 2014

Robert Miles [ ɹɒbət maɪlz ], bourgeois Roberto concina , (* 3. November 1969 in Fleurier , Canton of Neuchatel , Switzerland ; † 9. May 2017 in Ibiza , Spain ) was an Italian pop - and Dream House - musicians .

Life

Roberto Concina was born in Switzerland in 1969 to Italian parents (his father was in the military ), who moved back to Italy with him in 1979. In Fagagna he began to gain his first musical experience with the piano and mixer. At the age of 17 he dropped out of school and worked as a DJ . Miles then developed his own music, which he put together on the computer in the recording studio. In the late 1980s he performed in discos in the Venice area in hardcore trance as Robert Milani .

With his debut - Single Children now as Robert Miles, managed the musician in 1996 high in the charts in several countries and has sold five million times. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the instrumental piece made it to number one. As a result, a BMG sub-label signed Miles. The following singles Fable and One and One also sold well, and he released the first album Dreamland . In 1997 he received several awards, not least a Brit Award for best international newcomer and a World Music Award for most successful male newcomer of the year.

After moving to London , he released his second album 23am in 1997 . The single from it was Freedom . Miles could not build on the initial success, also because he hardly made any promo appearances himself, and then broke with his record company. It was quiet around him for a few years, which he used to perform more as a DJ again. In 2001 the next album, Organik , was finally released , which was characterized by a more experimental style. The track Trance Shapes found its way into the soundtrack of the film The Bourne Identity in 2002 , which shouldn't be the musician's only contact with film music. In 2003 Miles founded his own record company S: alt Records in London, with recording studios in London and Ibiza. Studio! K7 in Berlin distributes the label.

With Organik Remixes Miles also added a remix album in 2002, on which he a. a. worked with The Future Sound of London . He continued the collaboration with Trilok Gurtu in 2004 in the collaboration album Miles-Gurtu . 2008, his single was Children resumed with Children 2008 brought Dave Darell an electro-house version of the title in the European clubs. After a long break, Miles only reported back in 2011 with the album TH1RtT3EN . In 2012 another remix of the track Children was released . This comes from the Swiss DJs and producers Mike Candys and Jack Holiday . The style can be classified in the genre of Electro House. In 2013 he founded his radio station OpenLab in Ibiza, where he also worked as a radio maker until his death.

Miles died on May 9, 2017, at the age of 47 in Ibiza from cancer diagnosed nine months earlier. He left a daughter. Before that he also lived in New York and Berlin.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks	[↑]: treated together with the previous entry; [←]: placed in both charts
		IT	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1996	Dreamland	IT8 (22 weeks) IT	DE2 platinum (21 weeks)DE	AT7 (16 weeks) AT	CH2 platinum (31 weeks)CH	UK7th platinum (53 weeks)UK	US54 gold (23 weeks)US	First published: June 7, 1996
	Dreamland (Limited Winter Edition)	-	DE28 (14 weeks) DE	-	CH29 (8 weeks) CH[UK: ↑]		-	First published: November 25, 1996
1997	23am	IT33 (1 week) IT	DE69 (2 weeks) DE	-	CH18 (6 weeks) CH	UK42 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 23, 1997

More studio albums

• Organics (2001)
• Miles_Gurtu (2004)
• TH1RtT3EN (2011)

Remix albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		IT	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1997	In the mix	-	DE65 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 1997

More remix albums

• Renaissance Worldwide (1997)
• Organik Remixes (2002)
• TH1RtT3EN Remixes (2011)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		IT	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1995	Children's Dreamland	IT1 (23 weeks) IT	DE1 platinum (29 weeks)DE	AT1 (21 weeks) AT	CH1 platinum (33 weeks)CH	UK2 × 2 Double platinum (21 weeks)UK	US21 (20 weeks) US	First published: November 14, 1995
1996	Fable Dreamland	IT1 (19 weeks) IT	DE3 (19 weeks) DE	AT6 (12 weeks) AT	CH3 (14 weeks) CH	UK7 (14 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 27, 1996
	One and One Dreamland	IT1 (22 weeks) IT	DE5 gold (20 weeks)DE	AT8 (17 weeks) AT	CH6 (17 weeks) CH	UK3 gold (19 weeks)UK	US54 (19 weeks) US	First published: October 21, 1996 feat. Maria Nayler place 9 (2 weeks) in the Italian FIMI charts
1997	Freedom 23am	IT7 (3 weeks) IT	DE75 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH41 (6 weeks) CH	UK15 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 10, 1997 feat. Kathy Sledge # 2 (14 weeks) in the Italian M&D charts
2001	Paths organics	-	-	-	-	UK74 (1 week) UK	-	First release: July 2001 feat. Nina Miranda
2020	Bimbi per strada (Children)	IT4th platinum (… Where.)IT	-	-	CH81 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: June 11, 2020 with Fedez

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 1997: for the album Dreamland  France 1996: for the single Fable  Netherlands 1996: for the single Children  Norway 1997: for the single One and One  Sweden 1996: for the single Children 1997: for the single One and One 2 × gold record  France 1996: for the album Dreamland

Platinum record  Belgium 1996: for the single Children 1997: for the single One and One  France 1996: for the single Children  Canada 1996: for the album Dreamland  New Zealand 1996: for the single Children 1996: for the album Dreamland  Norway 1996: for the single Children  Poland 1997: for the album Dreamland

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	gold1	2 × platinum2	125,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	2 × platinum2	1,250,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	3 × gold3	platinum1	950,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	platinum1	70,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	platinum1	100,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	2 × platinum2	30,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	gold1	platinum1	15,000	ifpi.no
Poland (ZPAV)	-	platinum1	100,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	2 × gold2	-	40,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	2 × platinum2	100,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	gold1	-	500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold1	3 × platinum3	1,700,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	11 × gold11	16 × platinum16

Web links

• Official biography ( memento of February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at S: alt Records
• Robert Miles at Allmusic (English)
• Robert Miles at Rockol.it
• Robert Miles at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jason Ankeny: Biography (English) on allmusic.com, accessed on May 13, 2017
2. ↑ House DJ Robert Miles died time online May 10, 2017
3. ↑ Electronic composer and DJ Robert Miles has died ; FAZ.net of May 10, 2017
4. ^ Report: Electronic music producer Robert Miles died at the age of 47. In: vanyaland.com. May 9, 2017, accessed May 10, 2017.
5. ^ È morto Robert Miles, con il brano 'Children' diventò il re della trance. In: Repubblica.it . May 10, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017 . 
6. ↑ House DJ Robert Miles is dead , Spiegel Online from May 11, 2017
7. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources (albums):
   • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 138 .
   • Robert Miles albums. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed December 31, 2018 (IT). 
   • Robert Miles. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed on May 10, 2017 (DE). 
   • Robert Miles albums. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed May 10, 2017 (AT). 
   • Robert Miles albums. In: Hitparade.ch . Hung Medien, accessed on May 10, 2017 (CH). 
   • Robert Miles on the Official UK Charts , accessed May 10, 2017. (UK).
   • Robert Miles on the Billboard 200th Billboard , accessed May 10, 2017 (US). 
8. ↑ Chart sources (singles):
   • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on May 10, 2017 (Italian, paid subscription access). 
   • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 121 .
   • Robert Miles. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment, accessed on May 10, 2017 (DE). 
   • Robert Miles singles. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed May 10, 2017 (AT). 
   • Robert Miles singles. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed on May 10, 2017 (CH). 
   • Robert Miles on the Official UK Charts , accessed May 10, 2017. (UK).
   • Robert Miles on the Billboard Hot 100.Billboard , accessed May 10, 2017 (US).