G A Z E B OGazebo whose real name is Paul Mazzolini was born in Beyrouth on February 18th 1960. He was brought up travelling around the world with his parents, gathering from different cultures. His father, Francesco, was an old fashion italian diplomatic who taught Paul five of the eight languages he knew. His mother, Sonia, was a singer and gave him her genetic talent for music. Paul settled down in Italy in 1975, got his graduation three years later and went off to London where he put up various bands and decided to make music for a living. Back in Rome in 1981 he met a D.J who decided to produce a song written by him and an old friend of both: Pierluigi Giombini. The song was "Masterpiece" and the 12" version of it became a big hit in the european dance scene. In 1983 Paul signed with Baby Records and released his first album called "Gazebo", it included a song that was going to be a smash hit wordwide selling more than 8.000.000 singles; the song was called "I like Chopin" The song reached the first position in the charts of the following countries: Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Japan, Portugal, Hong-Kong, Korea, Singapour, Turkey and topped ten in many other countries including U.K. The second album "Telephone Mama" was released in 1984 and though the style of the songs was drammatically different from the first album it was a best seller in most of the territories were it was released. 1985 is quite an unlucky year as Paul had to join the army and this pause forced him to rebuild his carreer on a different and stronger basis not willing to depend on the moods of the commercial chart markets; he created - Lunatic S.r.l - his own company. Since, Lunatic's destiny has been very close to Paul's in fact it started up with a recording complex pushing Paul to start producing other projects. 1990 is the birth date of another company called "Cresus Enterprises S.n.c" Paul put up. The company's goals were to integrate Lunatic by developing the publishing and the distribution of the products in Italy. In the meantime Paul had released another three albums: "Univision", the first owned by Lunatic "Rainbow Tales", the first recorded at Lunatic Studios "Sweet Life", the first entirely written, produced and engineered by Paul himself, this album includes a special version of a song Paul had co-wrote for Ryan Paris and that became at the time a smash hit worldwide: "Dolce Vita". In 1992 Lunatic and Cresus finally release "Scenes from the news Broadcast", it's the first record of the label called Lunatic Records, distributed in Italy by BMG Ariola. Although the structure is young the record gathers a positive reaction on the market and within the critics. 1997 It's the birth of SOFTWORKS S.n.c a new company born from the merging of Lunatic S.r.l and Cresus Enterprises S.n.c, a new company with a big catalog, a great structure and so much enthusiasm ! But the tough work is to begin. Paul has just finished working on a project called "Portrait" and "Viewpoint" a double CD which will involve all the best of his material. Keep in touch !
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