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bio: Roberto Di Gioia’s maturity as an artist has been developing character and depth all these years. His fundamental musical training, experience, versatility and virtuosity are the ideal embodiment of (actually the rediscovery of) a new type of creativity: songwriter, musician, frontman, stylist, producer, multi-instrumentalist (piano, sitar, guitar, bass, drums, programming). Roberto Di Gioia was born in Milan in 1965. He began playing piano at age 4. His favourite music: the Beatles. In 1975 he began his studies at the musicial highschool in Eichstaett and after graduating in 1984 moved to Munich. There he began his career as a prize-winning professional musician. He became famous as the brilliant keyboarder in Klaus Doldinger’s “Passport” and has performed on almost every album and permanently toured since 1990. He has also worked with numerous American Jazz stars like Art Farmer, Johnny Griffin, Joe Lovano, James Moody, Tom Harrell, Clark Terry, Gary Peacock, Dave Holland and Woody Shaw, as well as German greats like Albert Mangelsdorff, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Udo Lindenberg, Till Brönner, Klaus Weiss and Helge Schneider. At the end of the 1990s Di Gioia desired a personal extension of his musical creativity: “Marsmobil” was born and manifested itself for the first time in 1999 as vinyl on Payola Records. Inspired by the trashy analog sound aesthetics of the 60s and 70s, Marmobil merges retro and future, space-pop and Burt Bacharach-like orchestrations to “the most wonderful and organic music of the new musical millenium”. (Sueddeutsche Zeitung). It’s no surprise that Di Gioia has been involved in some definitive productions in recent years like The Notwist (“Neon Golden”) Console (“Reset The Preset”) and Till Broenner (“Blue Eyed Soul”). In June 2003 he was asked by saxophonist Tim Ries to be part of a recording session for the album “Music of the Rolling Stones” with Charlie Watts, Bill Frisell and Darryl Jones. (Album: “The Rolling Stones Project”, Concord Records). “Marsmobil’s” debut album “Strange World” (ACT Records) featured such illustrious guests as Klaus Doldinger, Till Broenner, Nils Landgren, Johannes Enders, Dan Berglund and Wigald Boning. “Minx” features the vocal talents of singer Martine Rojine. Martine definitely has an aura and projects security and an unbelievable presence on stage which she never uses as a plagiarism or makes her appear as “just another front girl”. She is more like a critical but life-loving neo-mod with unbelievable charisma, charm and life in her voice that carries you away. The Marmobil song “Munich Loves You” is the official song of the city of Munich’s Image Campaign for the Soccer World Cup. The single will be presented to millions of soccer fans world-wide in the Munich Allianz Arena during the World Cup games, as well as in TV trailers before every game in conjunction with the journalistic presentation of the World Cup city. Marsmbil is also a compact, super Live-Band. There’s a video to “Mangia Amore”. “Minx” was mastered in Abbey Road Studios, where Roberto took a piece of the studio wall which he always carries with himself.
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