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Black Box biographyMusical Team : M. Limoni, D. Davoli, V. Semplici, D. Benati Black Box is made up of three Italian studio musicians (Daniele Davoli, Mirko Limoni and Valerio Simplici), collectively known as Groove Groove Melody, based in the Regio D'Emillia area of Northern Italy. In their different productions, they often use the voice of the French singer Katrine. Simplici was a clarinet teacher and played in the La Scala Classical Music Orchestra in Milan. Davoli was a well known Italian club DJ (known as DJ Lelewel), largely at the Marabu Starlight Club, while Limoni was the computer and keyboard whizz-kid of the trio and had previously engineered for Italian pop stars such as Spagna. The Groove Groove Melody team were established as one of the top two production outfits in Italian dance music, knocking out more than a dozen singles a year in their native country. Katrine was spotted by Spagna's guitarist at a club, and after introductions featured as vocalist on Ride On Time. The single became the first of a series of Italian House records to cross over to the UK charts, staying at number 1 for six weeks in 1989. It also reached # 1 in Israel, Italy, Spain, Germany, France and the European chart. Controversy reigned when it was realised that the single had included some samples of the voice of singer Loleatta Holloway from the Love Sensation single she made with Dan Hartman in the late 70s. A deal was eventually worked out with Salsoul (who owned the rights) as both companies benefited from 800 000 UK sales. The Groove Groove Melody team were also behind the production of Starlight 's Numero Uno and Mixmaster 's Grand Piano, another prime example of 'Italo-house', and another crossover hit. Under seven or more pseudonyms, they turned out numerous further records. However, as Black Box their hits included I Don't Know Anybody Else (a Top Ten smash in the U.S. as well), Everybody Everybody (the last of the Ride On Time trilogy, which featured vocals by Martha Wash. It reched # 2 in Israel, and entered the top 10 in UK), and Fantasy, a revamp of the Earth, Wind And Fire hit (which entered the Top 10 in Israel and reached # 9 in UK). The group's debut LP, 1990's Dreamland, was also a success. Actually, since Martha Wash's voice was at first used as sample for Everybody Everybody, she was finally asked the reinterpreted the whole title... Then to sing for the complete album Dreamland. Katrine was just lipsyncing on stage... Martha's voice was also used by projects such as Seduction and C & C Music Factory (Everybody Dance Now). She finally tired of ghosting vocals, disavowed all her session work, and filed litigation for proper crediting, winning a solo recording contract in the process. Black Box went on to cast the excellent Char Voni as their featured singer After the single Get Down (featuring the rapper Stepz) and a Megamix, they returned in 1991 with Strike It Up, another American Top Ten entry. They were also responsible for, among other remixes, ABC 's 1991 comeback single, Say It. In 1995 they released the single Not Anyone but their album Positive Vibration was not very succesful. 2007 : Everybody Everybody was remixed by Benny Benassi, Fuzzy Hair and whiteHEAT. A Best Of could be released at the end of the year. CD Now - Encyclopedia of Popular Music Copyright Muze UK Ltd.
1989 - 1998
The biography was last updated Mon, June 15th 2009 Did you like this article ? Tell your friends
Latest Black Box news21/03/2008 : Candy have done a cover of the Black Box classic Ride On Time. It's currently Top 20 on the danish dancechart (thanks to Anders Bøgh). 06/09/2007 : The Black Box hit that will be remixed by Benny Benassi and re-released will be Everybody Everybody (thanks to Tavi Meran) 30/08/2007 : More than 10 years after his brilliant remix of Ride On Time, Benny Benassi remixed another Black Box's hit single : Everybody Everybody (thanks to Tavi Meran). 13/10/2002 : The first Black Box fansite has just open ! It gathers all infos about the Italian project and all the related projects created by their producers. Links to Black BoxOfficial websitesFansites
DISCLAIMER : unless you see the artist's name among the credits of this biography, it was only created by gathering infos from the web and from fan sources. Sorry if, even if I did all verifications I could, some parts of the biography are false or lack accuracy. If you are the artist himself or contributed to the project, please wait till I come back from holidays.
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