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Popular during the mid 1980s in continental Europe, Matt Bianco epitomised the new jazz pop genre that they shared with Working Week, Sade, Everything But the Girl and The Style Council. The band name suggests that Matt Bianco is a personal name, but Matt is “a made up spy, a secret agent; we loved spy TV themes and film scores”
The Early Years
Formed by the late Kito Poncioni (bass), Mark Reilly (vocals), and Danny White (keyboards) in 1982 out of the shards of the abandoned art poppers Blue Rondo á la Turk, for their first album Whose Side Are You On?, they hired unknown Polish vocalist Basia Trzetrzelewska. Her vocal arrangements gave the album a jazzy dimension that Reilly and White could not anticipate but made good use of. Mixmaster Phil Harding applied what would become his signature style to the recordings. Hits like “Get Out of Your Lazy Bed” and “Half a Minute” (which Basia would feature live throughout her career) turned Matt Bianco into one of the biggest acts of Europe in 1984.
Basia and Danny White left the group after the first album to pursue a lucrative solo career with Sony under the name Basia on the Epic label. They maintained their working relationship with Phil Harding, who would continue to work with Matt Bianco as well. Mark Reilly, now without a musical partner, found ex-Wham keyboarder and session musician, Mark Fisher, and recorded the next (self-titled) Matt Bianco album.
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Top Albums
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Matt's Mood
28,534 listeners10 tracks
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The Best Of Matt Bianco
9,173 listeners16 tracks
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Whose side are you on?
11,765 listeners10 tracks
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Hifi Bossanova
1,902 listeners11 tracks
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Thomas104
gute Platte, Empfehlung zum Tanzen :-)
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luckystoned
cool :)
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Xipovski
У вокалистки что-то неладное с английским произношением))
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RedjMusic
love Basia with the band
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Strychnyne
V durfaq. / HFBN for the win, brill album. Underrated band is underrated.
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smoothjazzpl
Hifi bossanova! <3
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fordiebianco
Soundtrack of my life
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katakomba555
www.jackyjazz.blogspot.com MATT BIANCO,SHAKATAK AND MORE RAR DOWNLOAD GRATE!
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-METEORO-
More than I Can Bear is my favorite song. [2]
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Grejsi
Kocham, wielbię ;) Wrong Side of the Street - wypas! ;) Pozdrawiam wszystkich słuchaczy.
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HerothWard
High Phil !!! That Music makes my day! It's cool, man!!!
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petetong
I agree, 'More than I Can Bear' is a great song
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philkentbass
Matt Bianco really do it for me - no matter where I go musically, I keep coming right back to MATT BIANCO !!!
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Tamwood2000
Hi just to let people know Matt Bianco have a new Myspace page where you can join a mailing list. They will have a new album and plan to tour in 2009. Here's the link:http://www.myspace.com/mattbiancomusic
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BBKEEN
Oh my god I just remembered Matts Mood. Good One.
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BBKEEN
A true true matt bianco die hard fan here. Sneaking out the back door with a grin is one of my favourites.
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GTAer
Join Matt Bianco Fans!
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Keneticshark
Whose side are you on? is a classic.
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PapaHeffer
More than I Can Bear is my favorite song.
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nice3266
my first CD ever...
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