Ken Laszlo & Linda Jo Rizzo

A duet song by Linda Jo Rizzo and Ken Laszlo, videoclip recorded in USA .

Italodisco singers in Peru

Lima, main city of Peru, also known as "all bloods land", always has been a place with music for all tastes, but eurodisco music is one of the more hidden and difficult to find. Its popularity is even significantly less than other related styles like eurodance and synthpop, but not for be considered something of bad taste, the problem is due to the ignorance of its existence. In a market strongly dominated by latin music and where people has not any problem in listen the same exactly salsas and merengues from 30 years ago, the groups of people who meet and celebrate the eurodisco music are fewer and isolated. Those followers are mainly people over 30 years old, and people who still keep the nostalgy for those eighties hits like Sabrina with Boys Boys Boys, Lou Sern with Swiss Boy, Tarzan Boy from Baltimora or Brother Louie by Modern Talking. Music that nowadays is only possible to get throught internet or special contacts.

Suddenly we were caught by surprise when in a remote place in Lima and thanks to an independent promoter under the name of Discomania Perú, some posters announcing a show of Ken Laszlo, cult star for fans of Italo disco 80's appeared. Many got to see those posters but they could not believe it, it had to be fake or perhaps a local imitator. But in fact, was the same Ken Laszlo who for the first time arrived to Peru for have a show on 17 September.

  

Certainly we could prefer the show happened in a more centric place, accessible for everybody, because Lima is inmense and the eurodisco fans live so disperse, but we have to recognize that we are not Russia or Poland, nor even Mexico, we have not the media, not the budget, but we had to find a way for start it. And this is how this historical performing had to happen. Ken Laszlo himself gave us an unforgettable night singing his more famous hits to all his Peruvians followers, a dream come true for many of us. 

But the dream was not over with that. On 28 november was the show of Fred Ventura who in same way than Ken, he came for the first time to South America and Perú. 

       

Of course, our Talking Forever Eurodisco Fanclub had to be present, but our time with Ken Laszlo was really short, after his show we only got to find him in the airport before his departure. We had more chances with Fred, despite was not possible to cover his concert, he got to give me an interesting interview that I will publish soon.

Next year will continue bringing us more surprises for all eurodisco lovers from Peru and we hope that with the time we can reach the level of the great festivals, because South America deserves it too.   

 

 

Italo Party Berlin (14.11.2009)

Am 14.November 2009 fand in der Discothek "Kontrast" in Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten (Berlin) eine 6-stündige Italo-Party statt. Showacts waren unter anderem Ken Laszlo, Den Harrow, Taleesa, Luca Zeta, Soundlovers, DJ's Project, Fabrizio e Marco und Albert One. Da durch nicht gerade perfekte Werbung vom Privatveranstalter die Discothek nicht gerade vor Publikum überquoll, kam man sehr gut an die Stars für Autogramme und Fotos. Nebenbei: The Twins (Ballet Dancer) waren als private Gäste eingeladen. Auch wenn sie nicht auftraten, so war es doch ein schönes Gefühl, Stars auch mal "menschlich" zu sehen. Trotzdem nicht alle Stars meinem Musikgeschmack entsprachen, so war die Show trotz allem doch super, da 84 Minuten Videorecording von mir auf eine DVD gebannt wurden als Erinnerung an diesen schönen Abend, denn mal ehrlich: wann bekommt man an einem Abend unsere 80s Italo-Stars Ken, Den, Albert & DJ's Project wieder zu sehen ? Darum: genießt im beigefügten Video nochmal den Abend. Danke auch an Rafalo von Klub80 für das persönliche Kennenlernen und einen Extra-Dank an Thomas Spiegel für das Engagement, um diese Party zu ermöglichen.