Martinelli

Martinelli is a duo from Italy, Aldo Martinelli and Simona Zanini and was very famous during the '80s for their italo-disco productions. They are the real people behind the italo-disco groups of Moonray, Topo and Roby and Doctor's Cat. Aldo Martinelli was born in Milan, he received a diploma in piano at the Conservatorio of Alessandria. He played keyboards live in big bands and worked as a music teacher in school. A composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist, he soon sought to arrange and produce his own music. At the beginning of the eighties he acheived a series of important successes in the record world, starting from "Take a chance" (Bizzy & co.), theme for the popular prime time TV show "Premiatissima (82/83). Simona Zanini is an Italo-American singer, was born in the United States and moved to Italy with her family as a child in the 70s. In her late teens, after being chosen during a national casting directed by the La Bionda Brothers, she was signed by CBS Records and worked with the most important Italian musicians of that time. In 1983, looking for an English mother tongue artist to sing and write lyrics for his songs Aldo met Simona and they worked together on the Doctor's Cat "Feel the Drive": her vocal talent, together with the fact her mother tongue was English, made her singing credible for export. His attention towards melody and his care for vocal and instrumental harmonies immediately satisfied the craving of dance music fans in Europe and signed a milestone in what would be called the Italo Disco music.