Italian record producer, composer (Messina, March 20, 1949 - Rome, March 18, 2015) also former DJ and owner of New Rels record store in Rimini (later will be Disco Più by Gianni Zuffa). Began his career as a manager in early 70s with [[artist:I Camaleonti]] and [[artist:Bruno Lauzi]], then as a road manager of [[artist:Lucio Battisti]], [[artist:Barry Ryan]] and [[artist:Mungo Jerry]] along with his childhood friend [[artist:Willy David]]. In 1982 with DJ [[artist:Tony Carrasco]] was one of the founders of the emerging genre Italo-Disco. They made a couple of planetary hits, also major in both the emerging New York garage scene and Chicago's community house.