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Composer, arranger, producer and keyboard player,
Claudio Simonetti (www.simonetti.org)
was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 19th of February 1952,
zodiacal sign: Acquarius.
He studied composition and piano at Santa Cecilia Conservatory
in Rome.
1972:
He forms his first "rock progressive" band:
"IL RITRATTO DI DORIAN GRAY (THE PICTURE OF DORIAN
GRAY)".
1975:
Simonetti starts his recording career with the band
Goblin (www.goblin.org):
he writes and records the soundtrack of the film of
the famous italian director Dario Argento: "PROFONDO
ROSSO (DEEP RED)", which has sold over 3 millions
copies.
1976:
With Goblin realizes their second instrumental album
entitled "ROLLER".
1977:
Always with Goblin he composes and records the music
for a film "SUSPIRIA" again with
Dario Argento.
1978:
With Goblin he writes the soundtrack for the film "ZOMBI
(DAWN OF THE DEAD) " directed by George Romero,
a great box-office success in USA in the 1978.
After realizing their last album entitled "IL FANTASTICO
VIAGGIO DEL BAGAROZZO MARK (THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF
THE BEETLE MARK) ", Goblin split up.
Simonetti starts his solo career and began to work as
composer and record producer with the producer Giancarlo
Meo.
He writes songs and produces the albums for the band
EASY GOING; the song "BABY I LOVE YOU" set
the beginning of a long story of success of ITALIAN
DANCE MUSIC abroad.
1979:
The song "GIVE ME A BREAK" sung by Vivien
Vee and her first album reaches the top dance charts
in USA.
1980:
He writes the Italian "hit"song "GIOCA
JOUER" presented and performed at the Sanremo Festival
by the Italian famous D.J. Claudio Cecchetto.
1981:
He enters the European market with the songs "KASSO"
and "WALKMAN" wich went gold in France and
in the same year Simonetti release his first solo album
simply called: "CLAUDIO SIMONETTI".
The album contains the songs presented in the Italian
RAI TV SHOW "SOTTO LE STELLE (UNDER THE STARS)"
directed by Gianni Boncompagni.
1982:
He writes the soundtrack for Argento's film "TENEBRE".
1984:
One most of prestigious events in Simonetti's career
took place in January when he was called to write the
music for the saturday night Italian TV SHOW entitled
"BUON COMPLEANNO TV (HAPPY BIRTHDAY TV)" with
an orchestra of more than 50 young musicians, which
he also directed, in the a show wich celebrated 30 years
of existence of the Italian Broadcasting Corporation
RAI: all the most important stars of television took
part in the show.
This experience led two more studio performances "I
LOVE THE PIANO" and "JAMAICAN STYLE"
released also in USA by Salsoul Records.
The succesfull collaboration with the director Dario
Argento continues with the soundtrack "PHENOMENA
(CREEPERS)".
1985:
Produced by Dario Argento and directed by Lamberto Bava,
Simonetti writes the soundtrack for the film "DEMONS".
1987:
Later have worked with many directors like Ruggero Deodato,
Salvatore Samperi, Sergio Martino, Enzo G. Castellari,
Castellano & Pipolo, Simonetti participates at the
RAI TV SHOW "PRONTO, E' LA RAI ? (HELLO, IS THIS
RAI ?) as musician and animator with Giancarlo Magalli
and Simona Marchini.
1988:
He writes the soundtrack for the film of Dario Argento
"OPERA".
1989:
Simonetti partecipate at the TV SHOW "DOMANI SPOSI"
con Giancarlo Magalli.
1991:
After many live concerts, Simonetti with his band records
the CD: "SIMONETTI HORROR PROJECT" wich contains
the new versions of the soundtracks of Argento's films:
"PROFONDO ROSSO (DEEP RED)", "SUSPIRIA",
"TENEBRE" and "PHENOMENA (CREEPERS)".
In the first few weeks after his release the album has
sold more than 120.000 copies and it reaches the top
of the Italian charts.
"SIMONETTI HORROR PROJECT" is also avaiable
on a 47 minutes HOME VIDEO wich contains all the versions
of the album recorded in a theater where Simonetti and
his group stage a powerful performances, completed by
suggestive effects and images taken from horror films.
1992:
Releases "HORROR PROJECT II-DAYS OF CONFUSION"
wich contains a new versions of "1997-Escape from
New York", "Halloween", "Carmina
Burana", "Albinoni's Adagio", "Blade
Runner" and new songs: "I'll take the night",
"Searching" and "To Federica".
1996:
Simonetti releases a CD called: "X-TERROR FILES"
(more of 200.000 copies sold) wich contains all the
new versions of most famous "Horror" soundtracks
like "X-FILES", "TWIN PEAKS", "HALLOWEEN",
"BLADE RUNNER", "1997:FUGA DA NEW YORK",
"GAMMA", and all Dario Argento soundtracks
completely re-arranged.
1997:
Inspired by the "rock progressive" of '70s,
he releases the CD "CLASSICS IN ROCK" where
Simonetti re-arrange the famous classicals themes such
Beethoven's "FOR ELISA" and "MOONLIGHT",
Bach's "TOCCATA E FUGA IN D MINOR"and "AIR
ON THE 4th STRING", Ravel's "BOLERO"
and "PAVANE" and many other famous classical
themes.
1998:
He composes and releases the CD of the soundtrack for
the USA film "THE VERSACE MURDER" directed
by Menahem Golan and releases the CD "THE END OF
MILLENIUM" his first "Greatest Hits"
plus 6 new songs..
1999:
With Nicola Di Staso on guitar, Federico Amorosi on
bass, Titta Tani on drums and Simonetti on keyboards,
he forms a new band: DAEMONIA and produces their first
album entitled "DARIO ARGENTO TRIBUTE".
2000:
"DARIO ARGENTO TRIBUTE" is released and distribuited
by S4/Sony.
The CD contains 13 new versions of most famous soundtracks
taken from the films of Dario Argento including the
soundtracks composed by Keith Emerson e Ennio Morricone
played by the band with a Symphonic Orchestra.
With DAEMONIA he records during their Italian tour with
the MOVIE STRINGS ORCHESTRA, formed by thirty young
musicians, an LIVE ALBUM and in November they play in
New York at CULT-CON 2000 in a concert organized by
the Americans fans.
2001:
After Simonetti having taken part in several international
festivals of the fantastic films as juryman (Brussels,
Barcelona, Rome, Seoul, Skopje) meets in Barcelona Dario
Argento.
Argento proposes Simonetti for his new film "NON
HO SONNO (SLEEPLESS)" to reconstitute the legendary
group of Goblin.
With Massimo Morante on guitar, Fabio Pignatelli on
bass, Agostino Marangolo on drums and Claudio Simonetti
on keyboards, the band Goblin composes and records the
soundtrack of the film keeping unchanged the old sonorities
linked with the new technologies.
Goes out in November, given with his new recording
label DEEP RED distributed by of Florence the "DAEMONIA
- LIVE… OR DEAD" ( www.daemonia.it ), with
the new guitar player Bruno Previtali, the new album
record live during their Italian tour accompanied by
the MOVIE STRINGS ORCHESTRA, formed by thirty young
musicians.
E-mail: simonetti@simonetti.org
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