Eiffel 65

Eiffel 65 is an Italian music group consisting of Jeffrey Jey, Maurizio

Eiffel 65
Lobina and Gabry Ponte. They gained global popularity with their hit
singles "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" and "Move Your Body", from their 1999
studio album Europop. The singles reached number one in many
countries, while the album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200
chart. Their following two albums, Contact! and a self-titled album,
were released in 2001 and 2003 respectively
.

Over the course of their career, the group won a World Music Award in
2000 for the World Best Selling Italian Group, and a B.M.I U.S.A in
Los Angeles, rewarding the most-broadcast song on radio in the
United States. They were also nominated at the Grammy Award for
Eiffel 65 in 2016
Best Dance Recording for "Blue (Da Ba Dee)".[1] Europop was
crowned as the greatest album of the 1990s byChannel 4.[2] Background information
Origin Turin, Italy
Eiffel 65 also composed remixes of numerous popular songs, and they
recorded "One Goal", one of the official songs of the UEFA Euro
Genres Eurodance · Italo dance ·
2000, and "Living In My City", for the 2006 Winter Olympics. With
Europop · electronic
more than 20 millions of copies sold[3] and many gold, platinum and Years active 1998–2005 · 2010–present
diamond records, Eiffel 65 is one of Italy's most popular electronic Labels BlissCo · Universal ·
groups. Republic · Popular · Warner
Bros.
In 2005, DJ Gabry Ponte left the group to focus on his solo career, and
in 2006 the remaining members Jeffrey Jey and Maurizio Lobina Associated acts Bloom 06 · Bliss Team
formed their own duo calledBloom 06. In 2010, Lobina, Jey and Ponte Website eiffel65.com
returned to form the original group.
Members Jeffrey Jey
Maurizio Lobina
Gabry Ponte
Contents
History
Formation
1998–2005
Bloom 06
Reunion
Zorotl
Members
Discography
References
External links

History

Formation
Randone, Ponte and Lobina met at Bliss Corporation, which was founded in 1992 by Massimo Gabutti. A computer chose the name
Eiffel randomly from a group of words the three had selected but the number 65 was added to it by mistake: the producer had written
a phone number on a piece of paper and two digits of it ended up on the label copy. The graphic artist who received it assumed that it
had been added afterwards so he just fused it to the band name for their first release.

1998–2005
Eiffel 65 became famous for their international chart-topping hits "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" and "Move Your Body", which appeared on
their album Europop, released in late 1999.

The band achieved considerable success in Italy and the rest of Europe[4], in the United States, Canada and Australia[5]. Europop
peaked in the top five on the Billboard 200[6] and in the Billboard Canadian Albums[7]. "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" peaked at number 6 on
the Billboard Hot 100,[8] got to 1 in UK[9] and in Germany[10] and to number 3 in Italian charts[11] .

Eiffel 65 also remixed, between 1999 and 2002, other artists' tracks, like "The Bad Touch"[12] by Bloodhound Gang, Nek's hit single
"La vita è" and S Club 7's "Reach"[13] and in early 2005 a remix of Yo Yo Mundi's "L'ultimo testimone"[14] .

Bloom 06
In early March 2005 the group's DJ,Gabry Ponte, left to focus on his solo career. On
16 May 2005, the remaining members, Maurizio Lobina and Jeffrey Jey, decided to
leave Bliss Corporation to continue with their own production company. Since the
name "Eiffel 65" was a property of Bliss Corporation, the duo decided to continue
under a new name, as announced in June 2005,Bloom 06.

Eiffel 65's long anticipated fourth album, under the working title Crash Test, had
already finished production by the time of Maury and Jeffrey's departure from Bliss
Corporation. It was renamed Crash Test 01 and was released by Bloom 06 on 13 DJ Gabry Ponte
October 2006. The album contains lyrics in English and Italian.

Reunion
Bliss Corporation confirmed that a new Eiffel 65 line-up would make their debut in
the summer of 2007 but the debut was postponed. In 2009 Bliss Corporation began
to promote work from older bands by subtitling music videos and releasing "unseen"
video footage from Eiffel 65. In June 2010, it was announced on the Bloom 06
website that Eiffel 65 would reunite once again to produce new music as well as
touring.[15] In an April 2012 interview, Jeffrey Jey commented on the progress of
the new album:

The progress is slow because we work in three different places ...

and of all the demos probably two, maybe three of these songs are
what we call "the candidates" for our new single. We're not able to
get a unanimous decision on one song, so that is what's making the
release continuously slide ... It's really hard to say when we will
release a new song ... Hopefully within the next two or three months
Lead singer Jeffrey Jey and
we will be fixing the songs that we think are the good candidates and
keyboardist Maurizio Lobina
putting them online.[16]
performing at Ethias Arena, Hasselt,
in April 2013
In the meantime they toured Europe with their New Planet Tour, a multimedia show with wide screens and in the summer of 2012,
they announced a mini tour in Australia on their site. The band is currently touring, mainly in Italy and occasionally in the rest of
Europe, too.[17][18]

On April 2, 2016, a demo of Eiffel 65's new single "Panico" was posted on Bliss Corporation's YouTube channel.[19] "Panico" and its
English version "Critical" were officially released on iTunes on June 1, 2016. However, their fourth album release date is still
unknown.

Zorotl
Zorotlekuykauo Sushik IV "Zorotl"[20] is a character created by the Bliss Corporation and featured in the videos of "Blue (Da Ba
Dee)", "Move Your Body" and "Lucky (In My Life)". Zorotl was supposed to be a malicious character but since he was designed
with a funny round body, the authors of the Blue (Da Ba Dee) video decided to portrait it as tender, changing the script and giving it a
happy ending.[21] In 2000 Bliss Corporation made a video for the unreleased Eiffel 65 song "I Wanna Be." An alpha version of the
video appeared as enhanced content for Eiffel 65's single "Too Much of Heaven". The song is credited to Zorotl even though it was
recorded by members of Eiffel 65, so Zorotl is considered a virtual group.

Members
Jeffrey Jey (real name Gianfranco Randone), born 5 January 1970 inLentini, Sicily – vocals, producer (1998-2005,
2010–present)
Maury Lobina (previously known as Apollo, real name Maurizio Lobina), born 30 October 1973 inAsti, Piedmont –
producer, keyboards, keytar, piano (1998-2005, 2010–present)
Gabry Ponte (real name Gabriele Ponte), born 20 April 1973 inTurin, Piedmont – DJ, producer (1998-2005, 2010–
present)

Discography
Europop (1999)
Contact! (2001)
Eiffel 65 (2003)
Eiffel 65 wordmark

References
1. http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2001/grammys.htm
2. Eiffel 65 planet - Discography(http://www.eiffel65.com/discography)
3. https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/16_giugno_04/eif
fel-65-revival-dance-zarro-night-0716377c-2a3b-11e6-
9c68-4645b6fa27fd.shtml
4. Hung, Steffen. "lescharts.com - Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)" (http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Eif
fel+65
&titel=Blue+(Da+Ba+Dee)&cat=s). lescharts.com. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
5. Hung, Steffen. "australian-charts.com - Discography Eiffel 65" (http://www.australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?i
nterpret=Eiffel+65). www.australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
6. "Eiffel 65 Europop Chart History"(https://www.billboard.com/music/eiffel-65/chart-history/billboard-200/song/173982)
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Billboard. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
7. "Eiffel 65 Europop Chart History"(https://www.billboard.com/music/eiffel-65/chart-history/canadian-albums/song/384
264). Billboard. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
8. Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Eiffel 65 (https://www.billboard.com/artist/301489/eiffel+65/chart)
9. "blue (da ba dee) | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company"(http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/
blue-(da-ba-dee)/). Retrieved 2018-06-05.
10. GmbH, musicline.de / PhonoNet."Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, Neuerscheinungen, iTckets, Genres,
Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, rTack-Suche, Ticket-Suche - musicline.de"(http://www.m
usicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Eif
fel+65/single). musicline.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-05.
11. "Hit Parade Italia - Indice per Interprete: E"(http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/indici/per_interprete/ae.htm).
www.hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
12. "The Bloodhound Gang* - The Bad T ouch (Remixes)" (https://www.discogs.com/it/The-Bloodhound-Gang-The-Bad-T
ouch-Remixes/release/1221584). Discogs (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-06-05.
13. "S Club 7 - Reach" (https://www.discogs.com/it/S-Club-7-Reach/release/2123422). Discogs (in Italian). Retrieved
2018-06-05.
14. Yo Yo Mundi (2007-08-24),Yo Yo Mundi (remixed by Eiffel 65) - L'Ultimo T
estimone (https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=V2dMZtkYleQ), retrieved 2018-06-05
15. "bloom06.com" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120211203000/http://www .bloom06.com/site/index.php).
bloom06.com. Archived fromthe original (http://www.bloom06.com/site/index.php)on 2012-02-11. Retrieved
2012-05-10.
16. "IlTedesco, Eiffel65's forum Mod, made an interview with Jef frey Jey" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120701021358/
http://www.eiffel65.com/index.php/eiffel65/comments/iltedesco_eiffel65s_forum_mod_made_an_interview_with_jef fr
ey_jey). Bliss Corporation. Archived fromthe original (http://www.eiffel65.com/index.php/eiffel65/comments/iltedesco
_eiffel65s_forum_mod_made_an_interview_with_jeffrey_jey/) on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
17. "Eiffel 65 - New Planet Tour" (http://eiffel65.com/). Official Eiffel 65 Website. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
18. "Eiffel 65 - New Planet Tour Schedule" (https://www.facebook.com/eiffel65/app_123966167614127). Facebook.
Retrieved 20 January 2014.
19. "Eiffel65 - "Panico" ( Rough Mix Demo Version) [Lyrics Video]" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJY1-9PTG-k).
Retrieved 3 April 2016.
20. "Zorotl Official Website" (http://zorotl.com/the_crew.php). zorotl.com. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
21. Gianotti, Celestino. "Zorotl Official Website" (http://zorotl.com/the_crew.php). zorotl.com. Retrieved 2017-02-25.

External links
Eiffel 65 Official website

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