Giorgio Moroder won a bet. His brothers challenged him to play as well as they did — three months later, he returned home during Christmas break from boarding school and played for them. They lost.

Born on April 26th, 1940, Giorgio Moroder spurred a dramatic shift in pop music through his pioneering use of synthesizers and the hit songs he composed for Donna Summer and many others. As the long ...

Italian producer and composer Giorgio Moroder is largely responsible for disco, house and techno's popularity to this day, his innovative work with synthesizers and boundary-pushing sounds and lyrics ...

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of Giorgio Moroder to pop and dance music in the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s and beyond. His influence has been enormous. The 73-year old Italian ...

Millions of music fans around the world know Oscar-winning songwriter Giorgio Moroder as the father of disco, synth-pop and, more recently, EDM (short for Electronic Dance Music). Credit for this goes ...

It’s been 35 years since Giorgio Moroder and Cher hooked up for a late-night session to produce “Bad Love,” the diva’s disco rave-up from the soundtrack of the 1980 coming-of-age drama, Foxes. “We ...

Producer Giorgio Moroder made his name producing hits in the '70s and '80s for Donna Summer, Irene Cara, Berlin, and more. He also did the soundtracks for "Scarface," "Midnight Express," "Top Gun" and ...

Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, there were few artists as in-demand as Giorgio Moroder, an Italian record producer who would go on to write a plethora of hits and win a handful of Oscars for his work ...

Thanks to a little nudge from Daft Punk (see 2013’s “Random Access Memories”), mustachioed disco genius and dependable pop hit maker Giorgio Moroder, 75, came out of musical retirement this year with ...

Synthesizers pump through the heart of contemporary pop music, but in the early ’70s, machine-made music seemed like a sci-fi fantasy. That is, until 1976, when disco queen Donna Summer recorded her ...

Giorgio Moroder has the honor, and the misfortune, of being on the front lines of two musical eras that eventually fell out of fashion. The 75-year-old songwriter and producer played an instrumental ...