Giorgio Moroder
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Biography
A prolific composer and producer of albums for popular artists, most notably Donna Summer, Moroder has provided pulsing, synthesized scores for films such as "Midnight Express" (1978) and "American Gigolo" (1980) and song scores for "Foxes" (1980), "Flashdance" (1983), "Electric Dreams" (1984) and "Let It Ride" (1989). He received three Oscars for his score for "Midnight Express" and shared the awards for the songs "Flashdance . . . What a Feeling" and "Take My Breath Away" (from "Top Gun").
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Life Events
1969
Released debut single "Looky, Looky"
1972
Debut LP, "Son of My Father" released
1974
First collaboration with Donna Summer, "Lady of the Night"; with Bellotte would go on to produce and co-write songs for the Boston-based songstress for six prolific years
1975
Summer's 17-minute smash "Love to Love You Baby" released, sparking wave of "disco fever"
1977
Released Donna Summer's "I Remember Yesterday", featuring the hit single "I Feel Love"
1978
Film composing debut, scoring Alan Parker's "Midnight Express"; won Academy Award for Best Original Score
1979
Donna Summer's hit single-packed double LP "Bad Girls" released
1980
Final collaboration of the Summer/Bellotte/Moroder hitmaking team, Summer's LP "The Wanderer"
1980
Produced and composed the soundtrack for "American Gigolo"; co-wrote hit theme "Call Me" with Blondie's Debbie Harry
1983
Composed score for Brian De Palma's "Scarface"
1983
Co-wrote the Irene Cara hit "Flashdance... What a Feeling"
1984
Produced and composed the "original soundtrack" for Fritz Lang's silent classic "Metropolis"
1984
Composed song score for, and had cameo role in, the computer-themed romance "Electric Dreams"
1986
Wrote the hit songs "Take My Breath Away" and "Danger Zone" for the film "Top Gun", winning his third Academy Award for the former
1987
Composed song score for the action film "Over the Top", including the Kenny Loggins hit "Meet Me Half Way"
1988
Was associate producer and songwriter for the Italian thriller "Mamba"
1992
Contributed score to the German-Italian sci-fi feature "Jackpot"
1996
Produced, directed, wrote, edited and composed the score for the experimental computer animated short "A Special Tree"
1998
Composed the score for the electronic music documentary "Modulations"; was also a featured interviewee
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