Al Bano and Romina Power are an Italian-American pop music duo formed in 1975 by then-married couple Italian tenor Albano Carrisi and American singer Romina Power, the daughter of Hollywood actor Tyrone Power. They have recorded over 22 albums, which have sold in 150 million copies across six decades. Their best known international hits include “Felicità”, “Sharazan”, “Tu, soltanto tu (Mi hai fatto innamorare)”, “Ci sarà”, “Sempre sempre”, and “Libertà!”. They participated twice in Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 and 1985 and performed five times at Sanremo Music Festival, winning in 1984 with the song “Ci sarà”. The couple also shot seven films, based on their songs, between 1967 and 1984. The two separated in 1999 and divorced in 2012, but reunited professionally in 2013.
Ara Malikian is a Lebanese-born violinist of Armenian descent. He was educated in Germany and now based in Spain. Since 1995, Malikian has played in a duo with the pianist Serouj Kradjian, also of Armenian origin, recorded the complete cycle of Sonatas by Robert Schumann (Hänsler) with him, as well as the record “Miniatures” (Malkrafon), an anthology of music for violin and piano written by Armenian composers. He has also recorded numerous discs for record companies such as BMG, Auvidis, Trittico Classics and Elite Music, including, among many other compositions, “The Four Seasons” of Vivaldi (more than 80,000 copies sold for UNICEF). Malikian maintains a close collaboration with José Luis Montón. As well as working with the Lebanese singer Fairuz, the flamenco dancers Joaquín Cortés and Belén Maya, the Ensamble Nuevo Tango and the jazz pianist Horacio Icasto. He has also collaborated with film-music composers like Alberto Iglesias, with whom he recorded the soundtrack for Hable Con Ella, a movie by Almodóvar, or Pascal Gainge in Otro Barrio by the director Salvador García Ruiz. Ara Malikian has released albums “Manantial” and “De la felicidad” accompanied by the flamenco guitarist José Luis Montón. This last CD was nominated by the Spanish Academy of Music for the best New Music CD of the year. With Warner Bros., Malikian recorded a double CD, which contained some of the most significant works of Paganini, including his “24 Caprices for Violin Solo”, an album with some compositions by Sarasate accompanied by the Armenian pianist Serouj Kradjian, the “Six Sonatas” for violin by Ysaÿe and the “Sonatas and Partitas” by J. S. Bach. Ara Malikian was nominated twice for the best classical performance in the 2007 Music Prizes in Spain, by the Spanish Academy for his recording of the Poema Concertante by Xavier Montsalvatge, along with the Castilla y León Symphonic Orchestra; as well as for a piece with Joan Valent, Suso Sáiz and Marc Blanes. He participated as a guest artist in the film J: Beyond Flamenco, by Carlos Saura (2016).
Baccara was a Spanish female vocal duo formed in 1977 by Spanish artists Mayte Mateos (born 7 February 1951) and María Mendiola (4 April 1952 – 11 September 2021). The duo rapidly achieved international success with their debut single “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie”, which reached number one across much of Europe and became the best-selling single of all time by a female group, eventually selling more than 16 million copies worldwide. A successful follow-up single (“Sorry, I’m a Lady”) and European tour led to a number of album releases, numerous television appearances and the duo’s selection to represent Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978.
Bad Boys Blue are a German pop group formed in Cologne in 1984. The group performed many international hits including “You’re a Woman”, “Pretty Young Girl”, “I Wanna Hear Your Heartbeat”, and “Come Back and Stay”. The group became massively popular in Eastern Europe, South America, and South Africa, with the band performing to sell-out crowds in Russia and Ukraine. In contrast, the group never charted in the UK, and their only charting U.S. singles were “Save Your Love” and “I Totally Miss You” (1993) which became successful chart hits. In June 2015, Bad Boys Blue released a new album titled 30. It contains four new and four unreleased songs, along with some remixes of older songs. In August 2023, Bad Boys Blue embarked on a multi city US tour along with Samantha Fox and Boney M, which included stops in Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City and San Jose. The shows were put together by Los Angeles based promoters LA Concert Group.
Bananarama are a British and Irish pop group, formed as a trio in 1980 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, and Keren Woodward. Fahey left the group in 1988 and was replaced by Jacquie O’Sullivan until 1991, when the trio became a duo. Their success on both pop and dance charts saw them listed in the Guinness World Records for achieving the world’s highest number of chart entries by an all-female group. Between 1982 and 2009, they had 30 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart.
A sparkling ode to Billy Joel by Alexander Broussard (Najib Amhali’s PlusSupportAct, De Corona’s, Crazy Pianos and many other such acts) & his five-piece band ‘003’, based in The Netherlands. Billy Joel’s songs certainly need no introduction. They have fused with our collective memory. He is among the most successful artists in pop history, with more than 30 top-ten hits to his name. His repertoire pretty much spans the entire pop spectrum: think of the classic sing-along number ‘The Piano Man’, but also swinging rock numbers such as ‘My Life’, beautiful ballads like ‘Honesty’ or good old Rock & Roll, like ‘Only the Good Die Young’. Each one of them probably has more impact live than on vinyl. And, although Billy is still performing at the age of 69, there is only a very slim chance that he will ever tour in Germany again. High time for a tribute, then. Hence The Billy Joel Experience.
Boney M. were a German vocal group that specializes in disco and funk, created by German record producer Frank Farian, who was the group’s primary songwriter. Originally based in West Germany, the four original members of the group’s official line-up were Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett from Jamaica, Maizie Williams from Montserrat, and Bobby Farrell from Aruba. The group was formed in 1976 and achieved popularity during the disco era of the late 1970s. Since the 1980s, various line-ups of the band have performed with differing personnel. The band has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and is known for international hits including “Daddy Cool”, “Ma Baker”, “Belfast”, “Sunny”, “Rasputin”, “Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord” and “Rivers of Babylon”.
Gaynor Sullivan MBE, known professionally as Bonnie Tyler, is a Welsh singer who is known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles “Lost in France” and “More Than a Lover”. Her 1977 single “It’s a Heartache” reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the 1980s, Tyler ventured into rock music with songwriter and producer Jim Steinman. He wrote Tyler’s biggest hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, the lead single from her 1983 UK chart-topping album Faster Than the Speed of Night. Steinman also wrote Tyler’s other major 1980s hit “Holding Out for a Hero”. She had success in mainland Europe during the 1990s with Dieter Bohlen, who wrote and produced her hit “Bitterblue”. In 2003, Tyler re-recorded “Total Eclipse of the Heart” with singer Kareen Antonn. Their bilingual duet, titled “Si demain… (Turn Around)”, topped the French charts. Rocks and Honey was released in 2013 and features the single “Believe in Me”, which she performed representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. After reuniting with the producer David Mackay, she released Between the Earth and the Stars (2019) and The Best Is Yet to Come (2021). Her work has earned her three Grammy Award nominations and three Brit Award nominations (including twice for British Female Solo Artist), among other accolades. In 2022 she was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to music.
Caroline Catherine Müller (born 31 July 1964), known professionally as C. C. Catch, is a Dutch-born German pop singer, also known for her collaboration with Dieter Bohlen (one half of Modern Talking) in the 1980s.
For a massive number of loyal fans, it seemed like the end of the world has come when The Dire Straits announced their retirement in 1995. But thanks to those same passionate enthusiasts, the music of a highly popular rock formation is now more alive than ever before. The call for songs that The Dire Straits left behind is undiminished, even among the younger generations. The Dire Straits Experience brings fans closer to the original band and gifts them an unforgetable encounter. Chris White, member of the Dire Straits band, the guitar virtuoso Terence Reis and five highly qualified musicians form the band that breathes new life into the jewels of the original repertoire. Sultans of Swing, Money for Nothing, Private Investigations, the legend lives on! The Dire Straits Experience revives the music of one of the most creative and unique rock bands in music history.
Peter René Baumann, better known under his stage name DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 12 studio albums as well as several compilation albums which have included his previous hits in a reworked format. BoBo has also released 34 singles, some of which have charted high not only in German speaking countries, but also in other European territories. As a dance music producer, his first big success came with the single “Somebody Dance with Me”, which borrows its melody from Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me”. BoBo charted with the singles “Keep on Dancing”, “Take Control”, “Everybody”, “Let the Dream Come True”, “Love Is All Around”, “Freedom”, “Pray”, and “What a Feeling”, as well as “Chihuahua”, almost all of which comprised fast-paced Eurodance sound with female vocals and rap verses performed by BoBo. Between 1992 and 2007, he had 27 single chart hits in Switzerland and Germany and has won ten World Music Awards for being Switzerland’s best selling artist. BoBo has received numerous Gold and Platinum certifications for his releases and has found success in Europe (primarily Germany and Switzerland), Canada, Asia, and South America.
Circus-theatre ELYSIUM was founded in 2012. Its team includes the most experienced producers, the best stage directors and actors. At present, a team of more than 50 people: 7 soloists, 12 circus performers, 20 ballet dancers, management and technical team. It all started with a few numbers, united under the single title “Fairytale Show”. It was sold out for every performance in France and later turned into a massive show “Alice in Wonderland”, an box-office hit with the public. Our show was applauded by audiences in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, France and China – the language of the circus doesn’t need translation. With each performance we develop our skills, make new discoveries and give vivid emotions to hundreds of thousands of spectators of all ages..
Eros Walter Luciano Ramazzotti is an Italian pop musician, singer and songwriter. He is popular in Italy and most European countries, and throughout the Spanish-speaking world, as he has released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish. Since 1984, Ramazzotti has released 11 studio albums, one EP, three compilation albums, three live albums, and 37 singles. He has sold over 60 million records in his 40-year career. His repertoire includes duets with artists such as Cher, Tina Turner, Andrea Bocelli, Patsy Kensit, Anastacia, Joe Cocker, Julio Iglesias, Lynn Davis, Ricardo Arjona, Luciano Pavarotti, Laura Pausini, Nicole Scherzinger and Ricky Martin. Ramazzotti first gained international success in 1993, with the release of Tutte storie, which amassed five million album sales and occupied the top five in every country where he had previously released albums. This success led to a BMG International record contract in 1994. His audience appeal comes from several factors, including his unique voice, which can be described as somewhat nasal but nevertheless forceful and resonant baritone, and his energetic delivery of catchy, melodic tunes which are often passionate mid-tempo autobiographical ballads, with instrumentation that is rich in soft-rock influence.
Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits “I Will Survive” (1978), “Let Me Know (I Have a Right)” (1979), “I Am What I Am” (1983), and her version of “Never Can Say Goodbye” (1974). In December 2019 “I Will Survive” trended on TikTok and Gaynor performed the dance at the LifeMinute TV studios in Times Square, NY. In January 2020, she won her second Grammy Award in her career, 40 years after her first, for her roots gospel album Testimony. In 2021, Gaynor returned to disco music when she recorded “Can’t Stop Writing Songs About You” with Australian singer Kylie Minogue for the reissue of Minogue’s fifteenth studio album Disco entitled Disco: Guest List Edition. The collaboration occurred following Gaynor praising Minogue for keeping Disco alive with her album of the same name. In April 2021, Gaynor recorded “Brand New” with the veteran Contemporary Christian band MercyMe. In 2022, Gaynor competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as “Mermaid” who rode on a giant clam-like vehicle that the Men in Black had to push around. After being eliminated on “Andrew Lloyd Webber Night” alongside Mario Cantone as “Maize”, Gaynor did her performance of “I Will Survive”.
Grace Beverly Jones OJ is a Jamaican-American model, singer and actress. Born in Jamaica, she and her family moved to Syracuse, New York, when she was a teenager. Jones began her modelling career in New York state, then in Paris, working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue. She notably worked with photographers such as Jean-Paul Goude, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Hans Feurer, and became known for her distinctive androgynous appearance and bold features.
Gipsy Kings are a band of Catalan rumba, flamenco, salsa, and pop musicians, founded in 1978 in Arles and Montpellier, in southern France, who perform mostly in Catalan but also mix in Spanish with southern French dialects. Although the group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos (Spanish Romani), who fled Spain during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. They are known for bringing rumba flamenca, a pop-oriented music distantly derived from traditional flamenco and rumba genres, to a worldwide audience. They were originally known as Los Reyes.
Nestor Alexander Haddaway is a Trinidadian-born German singer best known for his 1993 hit single “What Is Love”, which reached number 1 in 13 countries. The albums Let’s Do It Now (1998) and My Face (2001; re-released as Love Makes) all failed to chart. Haddaway appeared on the television show Comeback – Die große Chance in Germany in 2004. He appeared on the UK version of Hit Me, Baby, One More Time in 2005 and subsequently appeared on the U.S. version. This exposure led to him scoring a moderate chart hit in Germany with the ballad “Spaceman” from his next album, Pop Splits. In 2008, “What Is Love” was featured in a commercial for Diet Pepsi MAX that aired during Super Bowl XLII which parodied the leitmotif and included several stars including LL Cool J, Missy Elliott, and Busta Rhymes, but Haddaway himself did not appear in the ad. In 2008, Haddaway teamed up with Eurodance star Dr. Alban for the single “I Love the 90’s”.[14] In 2009, “What Is Love” re-entered charts after German DJ Klaas remixed it. The track resurfaced again in 2010 when it sampled heavily in Eminem’s single “No Love” featuring Lil Wayne. In 2012, Haddaway released the single “Up and Up” with the Mad Stuntman, which was a top 20 dance hit in the US. In 2011, he said that most of his performances are in “the east”, in places such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, or Siberia. In 2016, he announced plans to star in Neverending Dream, a film about Eurodance. Despite launching a fundraiser on Indiegogo, the film was not released.
ICE VISION Production Center was founded in 2006 by the team who initiated the creation of the Federation of figure skating in Saint-Petersburg.
ICE VISION is one of the first Russian companies who created and launched a unique format of shows on ice which combine figure-skating and
theatrical elements. Since its foundation 10 years ago, the company has successfully realized dozens of large scale shows and organized more
than 500 performances in over 60 cities in Russia, Europe and Asia with more than 2 000 000 spectators.
Il Divo are a multi-national classical crossover vocal group. The male quartet, which originated in the United Kingdom in December 2003, consists of tenors Urs Bühler, David Miller, baritone Steven LaBrie and Sébastien Izambard. It also included baritone Carlos Marín before his death from COVID-19 in December 2021, being officially replaced by LaBrie in August 2023. Il Divo was created and promoted by Simon Cowell for the label Syco Music (a subsidiary of Sony Music). As of 2021, the group released ten studio albums: Il Divo (2004), The Christmas Collection (2005), Ancora (2005), Siempre (2006), The Promise (2008), Wicked Game (2011), A Musical Affair (2013), Amor & Pasión (2015), Timeless (2018), and For Once in My Life: A Celebration of Motown (2021); as well as a compilation album, The Greatest Hits (2012). Two other albums – An Evening with Il Divo: Live in Barcelona (2009) and Live in Japan (2014) – presented recordings of live concerts. The group has also collaborated with other artists. Since its inception, Il Divo has enjoyed success worldwide, selling over 30 million copies of their albums worldwide. With 160 certified gold and platinum hits in 35 countries, the group has pioneered the genre of operatic pop, or “popera”, in classical crossover music. Il Divo’s live concerts sold over two million concert tickets worldwide just from the group’s first four albums. In its first world tour, concerts in 69 cities in 18 countries were sold out.
Il Volo (Italian for “The Flight”) is an Italian operatic pop trio, consisting of Gianluca Ginoble, and tenors Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto. They describe their music as “popera”. Having won the Sanremo Music Festival 2015, they represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria with the song “Grande Amore”. They reached third place, but achieved first-place in the televoting. In 2019, they took part in the 69th Sanremo Festival with the song “Musica che resta”. The piece, written and composed by Gianna Nannini, Emilio Munda, Piero Romitelli, Pasquale Mammaro and Antonello Carozza, ranking in third place. On February 22, 2019, Il Volo released their fifth studio album, Musica, worldwide. Later that year on November 8, they released their compilation album, Il Volo: The Best of 10 Years, to celebrate their tenth anniversary of their career. The group has also embarked on a world tour, which kicked off in May 2019 in Japan, continued in Latin America beginning on October 3, and arrived in North America the next year on January 28, 2020. On June 5, 2021, they held a concert in the Arena of Verona in honor of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone. In November 2021, they released a tribute album dedicated to Maestro Morricone titled Il Volo Sings Morricone.
Josep Maria Carreras Coll better known as José Carreras, is a Spanish operatic tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini. Born in Barcelona, he made his debut on the operatic stage at 11 as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla’s El retablo de Maese Pedro, and went on to a career that encompassed over 60 roles, performing in the world’s leading opera houses and on numerous recordings. He gained fame with a wider audience as one of the Three Tenors, with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, in a series of large concerts from 1990 to 2003. He is also known for his humanitarian work as president of the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation (La Fundació Internacional Josep Carreras per a la Lluita contra la Leucèmia), which he established following his own recovery from the disease in 1988. By the 2000s Carreras’s recording and live concert repertoire had moved largely to art song, Neapolitan songs, the light classical genre, and ‘easy-listening’. He has also increasingly performed and recorded with artists from outside the classical music world, such as Diana Ross, Edyta Górniak, Lluís Llach, Peter Maffay, Udo Jürgens, Klaus Meine, Charles Aznavour, Kim Styles, Sarah Brightman, Vicky Leandros, Jackie Evancho, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Debbie Harry, Majida El Roumi, and Giorgia Fumanti. Beginning in 2002, Carreras scaled back his live performances to recitals and orchestral concerts. In an interview published in The Times on 8 May 2009, Carreras announced that he would no longer perform principal opera roles but was still open to recitals.
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva is a Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer. Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record sellers in music history, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide in 14 languages. It is estimated that during his career he has performed in more than 5,000 concerts, for over 60 million people in five continents. In April 2013, Iglesias was inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1983, Iglesias was celebrated as having recorded songs in the most languages in the world, and in 2013 for being the best-selling male Latin artist of all-time. In April 2013 in Beijing, he was honoured as the most popular international artist in China. In Brazil, France, Italy and elsewhere, Iglesias is the most successful foreign record seller, while in his home country, Spain, he has sold the most records in history, with 23 million records. During his career, Iglesias has won many awards in the music industry, including the Grammy, Latin Grammy, World Music Award, Billboard Music Award, American Music Award and Lo Nuestro Award. He has been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts of Spain and the Legion of Honour of France. UNICEF named him Special Ambassador for the Performing Arts in 1989. He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1985.
Kim Wilde is an English pop singer. She first saw success in 1981 with her debut single “Kids in America”, which peaked at No. 2 in the UK. In 1983, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female solo artist.[4] In 1986, she had a UK No. 2 hit with a reworked version of the Supremes’ song “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”, which also topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1987. Between 1981 and 1996, she had 25 singles that charted within the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. Her other hits include “Chequered Love” (1981), “You Came” (1988), and “Never Trust a Stranger” (1988). In 2003, she collaborated with Nena on the song “Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime”, which topped the Dutch and Austrian charts. She holds the record for being the most-charted British female solo act of the 1980s, with seventeen UK Top 40 hit singles. Starting in 1998, while still active in music, she has branched into an alternative career as a landscape gardener, which has included presenting gardening shows on the BBC and Channel 4. In 2005, she won a Gold award for her courtyard garden at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show.
Londonbeat are a British dance-pop band who scored a number of pop and dance hits in the early 1990s. They currently consist of vocalists Jimmy Helms, Jimmy Chambers, and Charles Pierre. Former members include multi-instrumentalist William Henshall, George Chandler, Marc Goldschmitz, and Myles Kayne. As of 2023, the band has released six studio albums and numerous compilations.
Loredana Bertè is an Italian singer and actress. In her long career she has worked with prominent Italian songwriters such as Pino Daniele, Ivano Fossati, Mario Lavezzi, Mango and Enrico Ruggeri, among others; her sister Mia Martini was also an acclaimed singer. She has experimented with different genres, from rock to reggae, from funk to pop. Bertè is known for the eccentric clothing she wears onstage for her performances. In April 2010 she suffered a bad fall, and the related surgery forced her to a lengthy hospitalization. She returned to the Sanremo Music Festival the following year, finishing fourth with the Gigi D’Alessio song “Respirare”. Her following tour, “Bandabertè”, ended up in Russia, where she participated in the international White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. In 2015 she played the judge’s role in the talent “Friends of Maria De Filippi”. In 2017 she recorded the songs “Allegria” with J-Ax and Fedez and “Occhi di Gatto” with Cristina D’Avena. In 2016 Bertè staged a big show at the Verona Arena called “Amiche in Arena”, performing a series of duets with other Italian female artists, including Fiorella Mannoia, Gianna Nannini, Patty Pravo and Irene Grandi. Bertè’s song “J’adore Venise” was included in Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-winning film’s soundtrack, Call Me By Your Name (2017). In 2018 she topped the Italian charts again with “Non ti dico no”, a song made in collaboration with the reggae dancehall band Boomdabash. She also duetted with Fabio Rovazzi and J-Ax in “Senza pensieri”.
Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Puerto Rican singer. He is known for his soulful and dance oriented songs, most notably 2017’s “Despacito”. Fonsi received his first Latin Grammy Award nominations in the Record of the Year category and won Song of the Year thanks to the song “Aquí Estoy Yo”. The song also won three Billboard Latin Music Awards. “Despacito” became Fonsi’s biggest success, winning four Latin Grammy Awards, seven Billboard Latin Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards and three Grammy Awards nominations. He also won one Latin American Music Award for “Échame la Culpa” with Demi Lovato. As of 2018, Fonsi has broken six Guinness World Records and sold more than 11 million records with “Despacito”, whose music video was the most-watched YouTube video of all time until November 2020, with over 8 billion views.
Heather Margarita Small is a British soul singer and former lead vocalist of the band M People. Her subsequent debut solo studio album, Proud, was released in 2000. During 2017, Small participated in the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage for the BBC, along with Neil Morrissey, Debbie McGee, Ed Byrne, Kate Bottley, Raphael Rowe, and JJ Chalmers. She commented on the experience afterwards: “I was a believer before I set off, but this trip made me realise my faith and beliefs were much stronger than I had realised.” In 2018, Small celebrated 25 years of singing. She toured around the UK, celebrating her and M People’s music. Alongside the tour, Small planned to release a new album, Heather Small: Orchestral Greatest Hits, in May 2018, but on 3 May, the project was declared to be cancelled. Small toured from 10 April to 26 April 2019. In January 2022, Small appeared on the third series of The Masked Singer as “Chandelier”. She was first to be unmasked.
Juan Luis Londoño Arias, known professionally as Maluma, is a Colombian singer. Born and raised in Medellín, he developed an interest in music at a young age, recording songs since age sixteen. He released his debut album, Magia, a year later in 2012. But, his breakthrough album was 2015’s Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy, which led to successful collaborations with many artists. He released F.A.M.E. in 2018, another commercial success. He followed it with 11:11 in 2019, and Papi Juancho, surprise-released in 2020. His single “Hawái” reached number three on the Billboard Global 200, and became the first number one single on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart. Selling more than 18 million records (albums and singles), Maluma is one of the best-selling Latin music artists. Musically, Maluma’s songs have been described as reggaeton, Latin trap, and pop. Maluma has a number of singles that have charted within the top ten on Billboard Hot Latin Songs, including “Felices los 4”, “Borró Cassette”, and “Corazón”. His collaborative efforts “Chantaje” with Shakira and “Medellín” with Madonna have reached the top of the Hot Latin Songs and the Dance Club Songs chart, respectively. He has worked with other international artists, such as Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, J Balvin, and The Weeknd. Maluma has won a Latin Grammy Award, an MTV Video Music Award, two Latin American Music Awards, and been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album.
Silvia Mezzanotte
Silvia Mezzanotte is an Italian singer. In 1999 she replaced Laura Valente as the lead singer of the famed band Matia Bazar; with them, she took part in three subsequent editions of the Sanremo Music Festival: in 2000 (with Brivido caldo, reaching the 8th place), in 2001 (with Questa nostra grande storia d’amore, ranked #3) and 2002, this time winning the contest with Messaggio d’amore, before embarking on a two-year-long world tour.
Antonella Ruggiero
Antonella Ruggiero is an Italian singer. In 1975 with Piero Cassano (voice and keyboards), Aldo Stellita (bass), Giancarlo Golzi (drums), and Carlo Marrale (voice and guitars) she established the historical group Matia Bazar. Pop hits from the band included: “Ma perché”, “Solo tu”, “Per un’ora d’amore”, “Stasera che sera”, “Cavallo bianco”, “Il video sono io”, “Mister Mandarino”, “Souvenir”, “Ti Sento” and “Vacanze romane”. “Ti Sento” was their major hit. It was number one in Belgium and Italy. As a member of Matia Bazar, they represented their homecountry of Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, with their song “Raggio di luna”. In total, they garnered 27 points, and finished in fifteenth place. Ruggiero continued to tour with Matia Bazar, however, her partnership with the group ended in 1989.
Michael Bolotin, known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton performed in the hard rock and heavy metal music genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, both on his early solo albums and those he recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack. He became better known for his series of pop rock ballads, recorded after a stylistic change in the late 1980s. Bolton has sold more than 75 million records, and recorded eight top 10 albums and two number-one singles on the Billboard charts, as well as winning six American Music Awards and two Grammy Awards. He has performed with artists including Lucia Aliberti, Patti LaBelle, José Carreras, Tony Cetinski, Ray Charles, Celine Dion, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Wynonna Judd, B.B. King, The Lonely Island, Luciano Pavarotti, Percy Sledge, and Zucchero.
Mireille Mathieu is a French singer. She has recorded over 1200 songs in eleven languages, with more than 122 million records sold worldwide.
Modern Talking was a German pop duo consisting of arranger, songwriter and producer Dieter Bohlen and singer Thomas Anders. They have been referred to as Germany’s most successful pop duo, and have had a number of hit singles, reaching the top five in many countries. Their most popular singles are “You’re My Heart, You’re My Soul”, “You Can Win If You Want”, “Cheri, Cheri Lady”, “Brother Louie”, “Atlantis Is Calling (S.O.S. for Love)” and “Geronimo’s Cadillac”. Modern Talking worked together from 1983 to 1987, when the band disbanded. They made a successful comeback, recording and releasing music from 1998 to 2003. The duo released singles (many of which involved American rapper Eric Singleton) which again entered the top ten in Germany and elsewhere, one of which was a re-recorded version of “You’re My Heart, You’re My Soul”, to whose title “’98” was added. By the duo’s final break-up in 2003, their combined global sales (singles and albums) had reached 120 million.
Moonlight Shadow theatre is an original performance, a form of plastic theatre showing images and characters on the screen made with the shapes of human bodies. This is a unique genre that includes choreography, pantomime, acting and a sense of humor.
During the show audience witnesses magic of shadow theatre on the highest level: Moonlight shadow theatre takes basics from Russian ballet school and combines traditions with modern choreography and acrobatics.
We bring our ideas into life with the help of the game of shadows and we invite you to this mysterious and illusory world!
Morcheeba is an English electronic band formed in the mid-1990s with founding members vocalist Skye Edwards and the brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey. They mix influences from trip hop, rock, folk rock and downtempo, and have produced ten regular studio albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten. Edwards left the band in 2003, after which the brothers used a number of singers before she rejoined in 2009. They recruit additional members for their live performances and have toured internationally. In 2014 Paul Godfrey resigned from the band. Edwards and Ross Godfrey later formed Skye & Ross and released a self-titled album in September 2016. Their latest studio album as Morcheeba, Blackest Blue, was released in May 2021 and was preceded by singles “Sounds of Blue”, “Oh Oh Yeah” and “The Moon”. It features collaborations with Brad Barr from The Barr Brothers, and Duke Garwood, whom Edwards described as “a diamond geezer”.
MultiShow is a multimedia show on a big professional screen accompanied by professional actors. All children will become members of an existing mission. They control the action on the screen and the scene using LED bracelets. The show includes an entertainment and educational program.
Natalie Jane Imbruglia is an Australian-British singer and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, she began a singing career with her cover of Ednaswap’s song “Torn”. It reached number one in Sweden, and charted highly in many other countries. Her debut album, Left of the Middle (1997), sold seven million copies worldwide. Imbruglia’s five subsequent albums have combined sales of three million copies worldwide, and her accolades include eight ARIA Awards, two Brit Awards, one Billboard Music Award, and three Grammy nominations. Imbruglia has appeared in several films, including the 2003 release Johnny English and the 2009 Australian indie film Closed for Winter. She has modelled for several brands, such as L’Oreal, Gap, and Kailis. Amongst other philanthropic work, Imbruglia served as a longtime spokesperson for Virgin Unite and campaigns to raise awareness of obstetric fistula. On 16 June 2021, Imbruglia announced on her official Twitter page that her single “Build It Better” would be released on 18 June 2021. It serves as the first single from her sixth studio album Firebird, which was released on 24 September 2021. This album represents a return to music after a six-year hiatus during which she says she experienced “writer’s block”. She also won the third series of The Masked Singer UK as “Panda”.
“Life is nothing but a game of chess. She always thought of herself as a pawn, until fate offered her the chance to go through the game as a queen.”
The PRJCT360 dance show “NINA” is a fascinating story of an ordinary girl, faced with a choice – to continue playing by the rules and face the adversities that life throws her way OR to avenge fate and take matters into their own hands at any cost. Love, jealousy, crime, repentance. All this and much more in the show “NINA”.
Viewers will be captivated by unexpected plot twists, detective investigations, love stories and dazzling pictures of Hollywood life. The show will transport you to the glamorous atmosphere of Broadway Cabaret with its inherent elements of gorgeous costumes, phenomenal music selection and stylish dance performances.
The dance show “NINA” is a large-scale and extremely impressive show in every aspect. Thanks to the efforts of an international team of professionals, we created a two-story stage with internal labyrinths, lined with large LED screens, broadcasting specially crafted video content. All the sceneries that viewers will witness are so realistic, that at one moment they will be blown away by the freezing wind from a prison cell, at another they will feel like guests at the noisiest wedding, and the next they will find themselves in the cozy walls of an exquisite cabaret. .
The technical part of the show is the work of Sergei Koltsov, who developed the performances of some of the most famous Russian stars.
Apart from the incredible technical characteristics of the show, the dance component is no less impressive! PRJCT360 are professional artists ready to conquer the hearts of every viewer. To form the final line-up of the troupe, the dancers went through two difficult castings, a summer training camp and countless dance classes to create “universal” dance artists at an internationally acclaimed level. Their trainings are daily, long, composed of different dance styles and sports disciplines. On stage, as in life, they move as a single organism, but they have unique, different characters, which makes their images so interesting to watch.
Spectators will see the Ancient World (Egypt, Antiquity), sketches from the life of different people (Europe, America) and magic fairy
tales (Harry Potter, European fairy tales, Frozen).
The team of choreographers of PRJCT360 consists of three artists working in diverse directions – Rositsa Terziyska (Classical and Jazz Techniques, Jazz Funk, Contemporary Choreography), Simona Georgieva (Hip-Hop and Urban Choreography) and Vasil Zolumov (Hip-Hop, Urban and Contemporary Choreography). Each of them is an exceptional professional in their field with extensive experience in performing and developing unique dance performances, concerts and music videos. The choreography of the show “NINA” will amaze even the most demanding spectator with it’s energetic mass numbers, gentle duets and acrobatic solos.
To fully take us for a ride into the glamorous era, also known as the “Jazz Era”, the costumes for the show are specially designed and crafted by Nichola Floridov. With his innovative and creative approach, he manages to create a bridge between the decadent atmosphere of the “Great Gatsby” and contemporary fashion trends.
The performance “NINA” of PRJCT 360 is the largest dance show ever made in Bulgaria! This spectacle is a real feast for the senses, which will keep you in suspense from the first minute and will not let you go until the very end!
Stunningly beautiful, exceptionally talented and elegant Francesca Romana Rivelli, known as Ornella Muti, was born in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She first drew attention in the film La moglie più bella (The most beautiful wife) directed by Damiano Damiani. Her debut was extremely successful. The first award the talented actress received as “Best Beginning Actress” (Migliore Attrice Esordiente) at the festival Golden Goblets, Italy. Continuing to actively withdraw, Ornela Muti subsequently appeared in the Sole nella pelle (“Sun on the skin”), Tutti figli di Mammasantissima (“Italian graffiti”), Romanzo popolare (“The Romance”), etc. Soon she began to win big awards and , in the end, she received the Golden Globe Award as the best actress for the films “Bewitched”, “Me and my sister”, “Nobody is perfect” as a result of a series of nominations. Ornella appeared in more than 110 films and on more than 100 covers of different magazines, covers of different magazines, won 15 major awards, played along with such artists as Massimo Ranieri, Gerard Depardieu, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardan, Catherine Jacob, Guillaume Gallien, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Timothy Dalton, Sylvester Stallone, Woody Allen, John Malkovich, Lucy Liu, Alec Baldwin and many others.
Paolo Meneguzzi is a Swiss Italian singer. In 1996, while the name Paolo Meneguzzi was still unknown in Italy, Paolo won the Viña del Mar International Song Festival, held in Chile with the song “Aria, Ariò”. The success of the song prompted the release of his debut album “Por Amor” on 27 March 1997. Paolo continued to build his career with the release of another album, self-titled, which contained the anticipated single, “Si enamorarse”. Paolo Meneguzzi’s Italian debut occurred with his participation in the Young Artists section at the Sanremo Music Festival in 2001. His song “Ed io non ci sto più” earned him seventh place. That same year, the album Un sogno nelle mani was released. He released a new single in 2002, “In nome dell’amore”. In 2003, he released the single “Verofalso”, and the album Lei è, released in October that year, went gold (with 50,000 copies sold), and then double platinum (200,000 copies sold).
Patricia Kaas is a French singer. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson. Since the appearance of her 1988 debut album Mademoiselle chante…, Kaas has sold over 17 million records worldwide. She had her greatest success in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Finland, Ukraine, and South Korea with her third album Je te dis vous. In 2002, Kaas made her film debut in And Now… Ladies and Gentlemen with Jeremy Irons. She represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow and finished in eighth place.
Paul Antony Young is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he became a teen idol with his solo success in the 1980s. His hit singles include “Love of the Common People”, “Wherever I Lay My Hat”, “Come Back and Stay”, “Every Time You Go Away” and “Everything Must Change”, all reaching the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. Released in 1983, his debut album, No Parlez, was the first of three UK number-one albums. Young’s smooth yet soulful voice belongs to a genre known as “blue-eyed soul”. He won a Brit Award for Best British Male in 1985, and his hit “Every Time You Go Away” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Best British Video at the 1986 Brit Awards. In July 1985, Young appeared at Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium, London. Young sang the Crowded House track “Don’t Dream It’s Over” at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute in 1988. In 1992, he sang “Radio Ga Ga” with the surviving members of Queen at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. Since the mid-1990s, Young has performed with the band Los Pacaminos.
Armando Christian Pérez, known professionally as Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, businessman and actor. He began his career in the early 2000s, recording reggaeton, Latin hip hop, and crunk music under a multitude of labels. In 2004, he released his debut album M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records and the executive production of Lil Jon. Pitbull later released his second album, El Mariel, in 2006 and his third, The Boatlift, in 2007. His fourth album, Rebelution (2009), included his breakthrough hit single “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)”, which peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the UK Singles Chart.
Enzo Ghinazzi best known as Pupo, is an Italian singer, lyricist, television presenter, writer and voice actor. In 1981 he wrote his first hit for another artist : “Sarà perché ti amo”, sung by Ricchi e Poveri at the Sanremo Festival that year. Pupo competed again in the Festival in 1983 with “Cieli azzurri” (“Blue skies”) and in 1984 with “Un amore grande” (“A big love”), written by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi. In 1986 he released the album Pupo in the USSR, a major success that sparked his fame in Eastern Europe. The following year he won the international children’s song festival Zecchino d’Oro as the author of “Canzone amica” (“Friend song”). Pupo toured extensively on international stages , and in 1991 he released his first and to date only live album, Canada’s Wonderland, recorded in Toronto. In 1992 he competed for the fourth time at the Sanremo Music Festival, this time under his birth name, with the spiritual “La mia preghiera” (“My prayer”).
Riccardo Fogli is an Italian singer-songwriter. The 1980s were a pinnacle of success for Riccardo Fogli. In this period, the lyrics of his songs became more philosophical and his singing manner became more emotional. In 1981, Fogli performed one of his most famous and lyrical song, “Malinconia” (“Melancholy”), and in 1982 he was the winner of the Festival di Sanremo with his other hit “Storie di tutti i giorni” (“Everyday Stories”) His 1982 album Collezione (Collection) was issued in nearly a million copies in Western Europe, Japan and the USSR, where he became particularly popular. Riccardo Fogli participated in Eurovision Song Contest with the entry “Per Lucia” (“For Lucia”) in 1983; he finished in 11th place and received 41 points. Fogli was married to and then divorced from the Italian singer Viola Valentino. In 2016, he reunited with Pooh for the final tour, which celebrated the 50 anniversary of band foundation.
is an Italian pop group formed in Genoa in 1967, originally consisting of Angela Brambati, Angelo Sotgiu, Franco Gatti and Marina Occhiena. Active since the late 1960s, they have sold over 20 million records. In 2020 the original line-up reunited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band’s debut at the Sanremo Music Festival. In 2023 Ricchi e Poveri toured Australia with concerts in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
The Romanov Arena company is creating theatrical shows which are based on multi-genre. The combination of circus and theatrical art, live vocals, contemporary ballet, original scenery, exclusive music make the projects unique. Our performances are a harmonious synthesis of all, at first glance, contradictory, creative spheres. The shows are interesting not only for children, but for their parents. After all, actors from the best world theaters, winners of international festivals of circus art, participants of leading television projects take part in them.
Despite its “young age,” our theater has already won the love of audiences abroad. “Royal Classical Ballet” was created through the efforts of young, active, creative professionals. The priority areas of the theater’s activities are the preservation of the best traditions of classical ballet; development of new directions of choreography. “Royal Classical Ballet” creates full-length ballets, equipped with colorful scenery and costumes that most fully convey the spirit of a particular era. The theater also works with modern multimedia technologies – video projections are actively used in new performances. Classical ballet is, first of all, feelings, emotions, innermost impulses of the soul, expressed through dance. The troupe consists of graduates of the best choreographic schools in Ukraine, Great Britain, Italy, Moldova and Russia, who, in addition to a high level of technical skill, have the ability to completely transform themselves on stage. We also collaborate with leading soloists of the Berlin State Opera and other European theaters. The Royal Classical Ballet annually expands its repertoire, delighting audiences with new productions such as Thumbelina or Cinderella. We are charged with creative energy, ready to experiment and under no circumstances stop developing. We plan to annually delight audiences with new productions that harmoniously combine classics with modern dance styles.
Smokie (originally spelt Smokey) are an English rock band from Bradford, Yorkshire. The band found success at home and abroad after teaming up with Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. They have had a number of lineup changes and were still actively touring in 2023. Their most popular hit single, “Living Next Door to Alice”, peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart and, in March 1977, reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as going to No. 1 on the Australian singles chart. Other hit singles include “If You Think You Know How to Love Me”, “Oh Carol”, “Lay Back in the Arms of Someone”, and “I’ll Meet You at Midnight”.
Tarkan Tevetoğlu is a Turkish singer-songwriter. Since the early 1990s, with the successful sales of his albums, he has been a prominent figure of pop music, recognized in Turkey and worldwide. Tarkan was born and raised in Alzey, Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1986, he moved to Turkey together with his family. Tarkan, who had been interested in music since his childhood, went to high school at Karamürsel and took music lessons. In the following years, he met the owner of İstanbul Plak, Mehmet Söğütoğlu, and signed a contract to release his own album. Tarkan released his first album Yine Sensiz in late 1992 with “Kıl Oldum” being chosen as its lead single. His second and third albums, Aacayipsin and Ölürüm Sana, were released in 1994 and 1998 respectively. The song “Şımarık” from Ölürüm Sana became popular in a number of countries. In 1998, he signed a new contract with Universal Music Group. In 1999, his compilation album, Tarkan, received platinum and gold certifications in several countries. In 2001, he made music videos for the songs “Kuzu Kuzu”, “Hüp” and “Verme” from his fourth studio album Karma. Two years later, extended play Dudu performed well on the sales charts, and in 2006 with the release of his first English album, Come Closer, he became known in Europe. “Bounce” and “Start the Fire” were the lead singles of this album. The lyrics of the songs included in the album Metamorfoz were praised by the Turkish Language Association. In 2010, his seventh studio album, Adımı Kalbine Yaz, became the best-selling album of the year in Turkey. In 2016, his ninth album, Ahde Vefa, which has a Classical Turkish theme, was released. Alongside his music career, Tarkan has taken part in numerous social projects and is known as “Megastar” and “Prince of the Bosporus” in the press. One of few European singers who has managed to span chart success without singing in English, he is also noted for his live stage performances. Tarkan’s effect on Turkey has been compared by the Washington Post to that of Elvis Presley in the US around 1957 and Atlantic Records’s co-founder Ahmet Ertegun described him as one of the best live performers he had ever seen. He has also been listed by Rhapsody as a key artist in the history of European pop music, with his signature song “Şımarık” as a keystone track that moved the genre forward. His albums have sold over 15 million copies. Throughout his career, he has won four Turkey Music Awards, six Golden Butterfly Awards and one World Music Award and has received various nominations.
The Italian Tenors consists of three Italian opera singers Mirko Provini, Sabino Gaita and Evans Tonon. The group is produced by former Warner and Polydor manager Götz Kiso in Germany. The Italian Tenors released their first album That’s Amore (Label: Koch Universal Music) in May 2012. It was produced in November 2011 in Turin, Italy, by René Möckel. The album covers a variety of songs from celebrated Italian pop artists and composers, rearranged, and reinterpreted in Italian and English. The group joined Chinese soprano and Grammy Award winner Jia Ruhan and recorded with her two duets to be included in her crossover album Smile, released in 2013. The Italian Tenors are managed by Maxi Media, a German music and TV production company based in Cologne, Germany.
Tokio Hotel is a German music band, founded in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing, and drummer Gustav Schäfer. Starting from the foundation, the band’s music genres were pop rock and alternative rock; since 2014, the band began to perform electropop and synth-pop. After recording a demo album under the name “Devilish” and having their contract with Sony BMG Germany terminated, the band released their first German-language album, Schrei, as Tokio Hotel on Universal Music Germany in 2005. Schrei sold more than half-a-million copies worldwide[16] and spawned four top-five singles in both Germany and Austria. In 2007, the band released their second German-language album, Zimmer 483, and their first English-language album, Scream, which have combined album sales of over 2.5 million copies worldwide and helped win the band their first MTV Europe Music Award for Best InterAct. The former, Zimmer 483, spawned three top-five singles in Germany while the latter, Scream, spawned two singles that reached the top-twenty in new territories such as France, Portugal, Spain and Italy. In September 2008, they won their first MTV Video Music Award, for Best New Artist. Tokio Hotel became the first German band ever to win an award at the MTV VMAs and to also win awards at the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America. They also picked up the Headliner award at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 and the award for Best Group at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009. They won for Best World Stage Performance on 7 November 2010 at the MTV Europe Music Awards. In July 2011, they became the first German band to win an award at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan. The band has sold more than 10 million records worldwide. Their most recent work is the 2022 album called 2001.
Anthony Patrick Hadley MBE is an English pop singer. He rose to fame in the 1980s as the lead singer of the new wave band Spandau Ballet and launched a solo career following the group’s split in 1990. Hadley returned to the band in 2009 but left again in 2017. Hadley is known for his “expressive voice” and “vocal range”. On 18 February 2022, Hadley released his first solo single in over two years, “Because of You”, an up-tempo number that marks a distinct change in his sound from previous solo material. During March and May 2022, Hadley will embark on a 40-date tour of the United Kingdom to celebrate his 40th Anniversary in the music business. The tour was scheduled for 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The set includes a number of Spandau Ballet’s big hits, a series of carefully selected covers, as well as several new tracks from Hadley’s upcoming seventh solo album, including “Because of You”, “Obvious” and the yet-to-be released “Mad About You”. The tour concluded with four special additional dates in October 2022, which saw Hadley backed by a full orchestra.
Umberto Tozzi
Umberto Antonio Tozzi is an Italian pop and rock singer and composer. Over the course of his career, he has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally, and his biggest international hits are: “Stella Stai”, “Gloria”, “Tu” and “Ti Amo”. In the 1990s, Tozzi recorded several more songs such as “Gli Altri Siamo Noi” (“We Are the Others”), the album Equivocando (“Misunderstanding”), Il Grido (“The Outcry”) and Aria e Cielo (“Air and Sky”). He also released a greatest hits compilation, Le Mie Canzoni (“My Songs”). In 2000 and 2005, he performed “Un’altra Vita” (“Another Life”) and “Le Parole” (“The Words”) at the Sanremo Music Festival. Between the two events, he also released a duet with the French singer Lena Ka of his classic “Ti Amo” as “Ti Amo (Rien Que des Mots)”. Tozzi released another greatest hits compilation, a 2-disc set entitled The Best of, and another single, “E Non Volo”. In January 2009 he released the single “Cerco ancora te”, composed by Emilio Munda and Matteo Gaggioli. In 2013, his re-edited version of “Gloria”, sung in its original Italian, was placed by Martin Scorsese onto the soundtrack of the 2014 Academy Awards nominated blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street. Over the course of his career, Tozzi has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally.
Village People is an American disco group known for its on-stage costumes and suggestive lyrics in their music. The group was originally formed by French producers Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo and lead singer Victor Willis following the release of the debut album Village People, which targeted disco’s large gay audience. The group’s name refers to Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, with its reputation as a gay neighborhood. The characters were a symbolic group of American masculinity[3] and macho gay-fantasy personas.[4] To date, Willis is the only original member still remaining with the group. The group quickly became popular and moved into the mainstream, scoring several disco and dance hits internationally, including the hit singles “Macho Man”, “In the Navy”, “Go West”, and “Y.M.C.A.”, which was their biggest hit. In March 2020, the Library of Congress described “Y.M.C.A.” as “an American phenomenon”, and added the song to the National Recording Registry, which preserves audio recordings considered to be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.
Born in 1991 as a comedy and physical theatre company, it has since then diversified its activity, offering a number of services in the world of audiovisual and performing arts. It is mainly dedicated to the creation, production and distribution of theatrical shows, but it has expanded its expertise to include corporate events, audiovisual formats, management of theatres, drama schools, and a wide range of diverse projects in the cultural sphere. Yllana’s founding members are Juan Francisco Ramos, Marcos Ottone, David Ottone, Joseph O’Curneen and Fidel Fernández.
