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Luigi Tonet, was born in Milan in 1950 and has been working in the music industry for over 40 years. At the age of 7, he was a contralto soloist at "Schola Cantorum Santa Cecilia ", and with the guidance of maestro Don Mario Bevini, he acquired his initial musical knowledge and learned to play a grand pipe organ. When he was 14, he bought a Hammond keyboard and formed his first musical group, followed by many others; among his former band members are some of today's most appreciated italian composers. In 1974 he joined Albatros with Toto Cutugno, the collaboration bearing many further successes, especially among french artists; as a result, a song composed by Tonet was interpreted by Joe Dassin. During the same time he started composing music for television (RAI and Mediaset), movies and theater. After leaving Albatros he started his solo carrier with CBS. A recognized Italian leader of electronic music, he was the first to use a computer in order to make music (Roland Microcomposer MC8). Very requested by the most prestigious recording studios (Stone Castle Phonoprint), he worked on keyboard and programming with almost all the Italian artists (Mina, Celentano, Vasco Rossi, Zucchero, Battiato, etc.). His instruments at the time (Modular Moog III, Roland System 700, etc.) were the same used by Isao Tomita and Hans Zimmer, with whom he collaborated various times.  During the 80's and the 90's he proceeded with his activities in record companies, alongside famous arrangers (Celso Valli. Fio Zanotti etc...). In the mean time he published his first LP “WHY,” distributed by EMI, composed countless other singles for TV (Mike Bongiorno) among which "Electric Sky" aired for 1460 consecutive days, using samples historically for the first time (360 System), and the evolution of samplers (Fairlight, Emulator, Akay) would place him once again among the most appreciated sessionmen in the best recording studios. In 1988, anticipating future times, he created what is called today, in a more developed version, D.A.W., with a Mac Computer and MIDI instruments. Having chosen to work at home and for himself, he composed hundreds of background instrumentals published all over Europe. Since the year 2000 he transfered to Moscow, starting to compose, almost exclusively, music for film and TV series, making himself appreciated by Russian producers and directors.  Today, thanks to the artistic producer Louis Viviers from the Idyllium office in Russia, Gigi Tonet (alias LUIGI TONET), has been introduced to Sabino Mogavero, owner of IDYLLIUM Music Publishing, Milan, Italy who published in digital format for the above named record company, about over 5 volumes of soundtracks by Gigi Tonet, particularly vol. 5 which contains 5 Cds with a total of 114 tracks. NEW CD's by Gigi Tonet: Voyage and Ocean Adventure

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