Gazebo

Paul Mazzolini (born February 18, 1960; stage name Gazebo), is an Italian musician. He has a legend status among the fans of the "italo-disco" music style, a variation of 1980s eurodance (also known as eurodisco).

Biography

Mazzolini was born in Beirut, Lebanon, the son of an Italian diplomat and an American singer. Reportedly, he learned to play the guitar aged 10 to impress a German girl in his class.

As a rather cosmopolitan teenager Mazzolini began a career in a variety of jazz, rock and punk bands before meeting Rome based producer Paul Micioni. The first release, Masterpiece, was a minor hit in 1982.

His footnote in charts history is his 1983 release "I Like Chopin", popular opinion notwithstanding, the piano motif herein is not a Chopin composition.

The follow-up song "Lunatic" and the eponymous album also entered the Top 20 across Europe.

Since then Mazzolini has released more albums, not counting the occasional hit compilation with all his best track called Portrait & Viewpoint. In autumn 2006 he released a new single called "Tears for Galileo", which achieved constant radio airplay on Italian RAI Radio2 and peaked at #1 in the Euro dance chart.

Recently Gazebo released a new single, "Virtual Love" after "Ladies!", from his upcoming new album The Syndrone.

Discography

Albums

* Gazebo (Baby Records, 1983)
* Telephone Mama (Baby Records, 1984)
* Univision (Carosello, 1986)
* The Rainbow Tales (Carosello, 1988)
* Sweet Life (Carosello, 1989)
* Scenes From The Broadcast (Lunatic, 1991)
* Portrait (Giungla-BMG Italy, 1994)
* Viewpoint (Softworks, 1997)
* Portrait & Viewpoint (Softworks, 2000)
* Ladies ! (iTunes Softworks, 2007)
* The Syndrone (Softworks, 2008)

Singles

* "Masterpiece" (1982; #2 Italy, #35 Germany, #5 Switzerland)
* "Gimmick!" (1982)
* "I Like Chopin" (1983; #1 Italy, #1 Germany, #1 Switzerland, #7 Netherlands, #1 Austria)
* "Lunatic" (1983; #3 Italy, #4 Germany, #6 Switzerland, #13 Austria)
* "Telephone Mama" (1984; #10 Italy)
* "Trotsky Burger" (1986)
* "Sun goes down on Milkiway" (1986)
* "Give me one day ... / Diamonds are forever" (1987)
* "Face to face / Dolce Vita" (1989)
* "Fire" (1991)
* "The 14th of July" (1991)
* "I like Chopin" (remix) (1991)
* "Masterpiece" (remix) (2000)
* "Tears For Galileo" (CD Single Softworks, 2006)
* "Ladies!" (2007)
* "Virtual Love" (2008)