Mario Boncaldo

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 [a=I Camaleonti] and [a=Bruno Lauzi], then as a road manager of [a=Lucio Battisti], [a=Barry Ryan] and [a=Mungo Jerry] along with his childhood friend [a=Willy David]. In 1982 with DJ [a=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.