Giorgio Moroder

Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder at Melt! Festival 2015
Background information
Birth name	Giovanni Giorgio Moroder
Also known as	Giorgio
Born	(1940-04-26) 26 April 1940 (age 76) Urtijëi, South Tyrol, Italy
Genres	Disco synthpop electronic
Occupation(s)	Singer songwriter DJ record producer
Instruments	Synthesizers vocals guitar bass
Years active	1969–1992; 2013–present
Labels	London Oasis Casablanca Hansa RCA Virgin
Associated acts	Donna Summer Harold Faltermeyer Freddie Mercury Daft Punk Philip Oakey Deborah Harry Sia Britney Spears Sistar
Website	giorgiomoroder.com

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈdʒordʒo moˈrɔːder]; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. Moroder is frequently credited with pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music.

When in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records. He produced singles for Donna Summer during the late-1970s disco era, including "Bad Girls", "Last Dance", "Love to Love You Baby", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", "Dim All the Lights", "MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff", "On the Radio", and "I Feel Love", and is the founder of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, a recording studio used by many artists including Electric Light Orchestra, Led Zeppelin, Queen and Elton John. Moroder also composed the soundtrack for the film Midnight Express, which won an Academy Award and contained the international hit "Chase".