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These Italian Stallions are back after their hiatus from music and are ready to dominate the scene all over again!

One of the leading exponents of a wave of Italian house music that flourished on the dance floors of the late 80's and early 90's, Black Box comprised three Italian studio musicians (Daniele Davoli, Mirko Limoni and Valerio Semplici), collectively known as Groove Groove Melody.

Based in the Reggio Emilia area of northern Italy, the team made use of Katrine (Catherine Quinol) as a front woman for the Black box project.

Semplici was a clarinet teacher and played in the Music Orchestra in Bologna. Davoli was a well-known Italian club DJ (known as DJ Lelewel), largely at the Marabu Starlight Club and responsible for the hit single "Grand Piano", another prime example of "Italo-house", while Limoni was the computer and keyboard whizz kid of the trio.

The Groove Groove Melody team were established as one of the top production outfits in Italian dance music, churning out more than a dozen singles a year in their native country.

Among these productions the British music industry spotted "Ride On Time". The single became the first of a series of Italian house records to crossover to the UK charts, staying at number 1 for six weeks in 1989, and becoming one of the best dance selling recordsof all time.

The Groove Groove Melody team were also behind the production of Starlight's "Numero Uno" reaching the no 9 in the UK single charts.
Under seven or more pseudonyms, they turned out numerous further records.

However, as Black Box, in April 1990, they released an album called "Dreamland" which broke in the US charts as well as UK and the rest of the world, and featured the hit singles "I don't know anybody else", "Everybody Everybody", "Strike It Up", and "Fantasy", a revamp of the Earth, Wind And Fire hit.

They were also responsible for, amongst other remixes, ABC's 1991 comeback single, "Say It". In 1995 a second album called "Positive Vibrations" was released, featuring the American singer "Charvoni", and including the singles "Not anyone", "I've got the vibration", "Native New Yorker" and "Fall into my Love".

In 2009 on the 20th anniversary of the monster classic brings world class remixes by Bass Weazal, Davoli & Rockdaworld, Western Disco, Erosie, Kinky Roland, Zeronine Crew.

Classique has been working with International Artistes from around the world for over 20 years, whether they are ‘A’ list celebrities, Chart Toppers, performers from TV talent shows or Celebrity DJs. Along with our in-house production team, we pull together all the details – dealing with flights, transfers, accommodation and riders for all the major artists and their teams.

As the UK’s No 1 booker of celebrity artists we deal with everything for you and work constantly with management companies throughout the world, where we have built up great relationships and have the latest information about who is available and who would work best for your event.

Please contact us for any ideas for your event and we will work with you, always understanding time constraints and budgets.

Unfortunately we are unable to request autographs or personal Meet & Greets (unless part of a Classique event and pre-arranged) and we suggest contacting the artist's own websites or fan sites. Apologies, we are also not able to ask for Video calls / personal birthday requests / free / gratis / charity / reduced fee performances from any of the artists – again please contact your chosen artist through their own websites.
We are however very happy to pass on your thanks to any artist that has appeared at your event arranged and organised by Classique.

The majority of prices will be plus vat at the current UK rate of 20%.