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Mario had his first experiences with music during his childhood days. He played the piano and received influences in electronical music through his cousin who looked after him. Mario made musical experiments with his computer and created his first technotracks. At the end of grammar-school he started to work and bought his first real synthesizer, and after some time got more and more equipment. He went on to now produce more professionally which was important for him. He is today Austria's most famous hardtechno-producer and dj and continues to release innovative music on his labels Schubfaktor, Schlagwerx, Vernacular, Ostarrichi and...

Massimo Ranieri (name in art of Giovanni Calone), Italian is a pop singer, a film and a stage actor, as well as a show-business personality. He was born in Naples (at Santa Lucia) on May 3, 1951. One of the most popular entertainers in Italy today, he came to the knowledge of the public by winning two editions of the Canzonissima song festival in 1970 and 1972 with "L'Amore È Un Attimo" and "Chi Sarà", and by representing Italy in the Eurovision song contest in 1971 in which he ended up 5th with "L'Amore È Un Attimo", as well as...

Stanton Lanier is an award-winning pianist-composer, and has released eight instrumental albums, five with Grammy winning producer William Ackerman, Founder of Windham Hill Records. Stanton grew up in North Carolina and the Florida panhandle, beginning twelve years of piano lessons at age six, and composing his first song at age fourteen. Music influences include J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Elton John, Billy Joel, U2, Windham Hill, and old hymns. From chemist-M.B.A.-financial planner to pianist-composer-author, Stanton's story, recordings, and concerts — with signature piano, visuals, and interaction — are one-of-a-kind. In 2004 he founded Music to Light the World, a non-profit ministry with...

Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author.He was a pioneer in, and popularized the term "Virtual Reality" (VR) in the early 1980s. At that time, he founded VPL Research, the first company to sell VR products. His current appointments include Interdisciplinary Scholar-in-Residence, CET, UC Berkeley. As a musician, Lanier has been active in the world of new classical music since the late 1970s. He is a pianist and a specialist in many unusual musical instruments, especially the wind and string instruments of Asia. He maintains one of the largest and most varied collections of...