Paul Mazzolini

Paul Mazzolini (artist alias Gazebo) was born in the Lebanon in 1960 to an Italian diplomat and a US-american singer. Legend has it he had learned to play the guitar aged 10 to impress a German girl in his class. As a rather cosmopolitan teenager Paul began a career in a variety of jazz, rock and punk bands before meeting Rome based producer Pierluigi Giombini. Both shared a passion for synthesizers and started working together. 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), which topped Continental European charts for weeks. A song written for Ryan Paris called "Dolce Vita" made it into the German Top 10.

The follow-up song "Lunatic" and the eponymous album also entered the Top 20 across Europe, but the 1984 album "Telephone Mama" was less successful.

Since then Paul has released more albums. Not counting the occasional hit compilation with yet another "I Like Chopin" remix, the latest work was produced in 1997, an Italian only album called "Viewpoint".

Discographie

• 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)
• I Like Chopin - Best Of Gazebo (Jimco, 1991) - Japanese Release
• Greatest Hits (Baby Records, 1992)
• Classics (RCA Italiana 1994)
• Portrait (Giungla-BMG Italy, 1994)
• Viewpoint (Softworks, 1997)