Mauro & Ryan Paris

We knew it since a time and now we can enjoy of the release. The new song of our friend Ryan Paris together Mauro Spessot was released by I Venti d'Azurro Records. 

Song title is a mix of the more known hits of both singers, from Mauro ("Buonasera Ciao Ciao") and from Ryan Paris ("Dolce Vita"),  so it is "Bonasera Dolce Vita". The song is a nice composition, arranged by Eddy Mi Ami in its Italodisco version, the lyric has a mix of english, italian and a bit spanish. Catchy tune and the great vocals of these monsters of the Italodisco. You can order the vinyl here.

Talking with Ryan Paris (Part II)

Here the second part of this conversation with Ryan Paris

In short, "Dolce Vita" changed your life?

Yes, surely, well… probably because I had a small place where I used to record with my new wave rock band, and I had concerts with 30 people, we actually had not concerts, we were dreaming, and we had concerts but for rock festivals. I lost the keyboardist and I looked for another one, who was Pierluigi Giombini, the one who wrote me "Dolce Vita" and then ... television, millions of records sold, fans,  women aahh !!!.

It was a big success that song… and Ryan Paris, how you become Ryan Paris?

I was with my girlfriend, trying to look at the dictionary a name in English, at the end from A to Z, we found nothing, and I said, I like the name Ryan, and she said Ryan Berlin and I said, no! Ryan Paris. After 7 hours of work.

You are Fabio, but had you any other pseudonyms?

Before I started, I was Fabio Dali, I had a band called the Gigolos, and there I was Fabio, now Fabio is my name and Ryan Paris my artistic name.

Maybe you know, inside the eurodisco world, many times the singer that appeared on the covers was not the one of the studio. Was this common at that time?

It was not common, but there were cases. Den Harrow, Modern Talking, I have been told of others that I do not remember, but there were not many. There were many singers, such as Passengers, Camouflage, Silvio Pozzoli, Tom Hooker, then Ken Laszlo sang for many, Albert One sings, P Lion sings, Gazebo sings, I sing. Many have really sung.

I would like to know your opinion. You know that during last years the distribution of music changed since mp3s appeared. Do you think streaming is helping to singers?

No, I make my vinyl, the vinyl has returned. The streaming is helping hmmm. I made three vinyls, they are selling very well and I do it. I started alone with my manager and now I have people who asked me ... Please can I sell your vinyls around the world?, I have one in Argentina, I have one in Mexico, small, but they sell a lot. Some fans also buy on my homepage.

And how do you think would be in the future with new singers, they can be affected by this. You are known and that is the reason people buy your records.

It is very very difficult, it always depends on the label house, a very strong record house, a lot of promotion and if the song is good, it sells. But people are returning to sell vinyls, you see, there are compilations, just for fans, but there are always more. I made now a vinyl with 6 colors, and they buy all the colors, not many, 5 or 6 people did that, but it is amazing. This is a little fan market. It reminds the 70's - 80's, when was the idolatry of the Beatles, Rollings. The best time to sell records was 60's - 70's., 80's - 90's, also very good time, with the sales of CDs, people did not copy it and then came the mp3.

Besides singing, what do you do in your spare time?

Well, I collect vinyls, I do sports, I am dedicated to my son, I am dedicated  to my family, I like playing the guitar, composing songs and cooking, making furniture and libraries.

What are your next plans for the future?

Next, we are working on a song with a German singer from the T.X.T., group of the 80's, a song that was called "Girl's Got A Brand New Toy".

-        A new version ? remix?

Let's see, I do not know, let's see what we'll do.

And then I'm working on a project with Phil R, another project with Andy Emme, a project with Stefan Juno Gang and this famous Giorgio Holister. Then people always send me songs, so probably a new vinyl in the spring.

And new video clips?

Are coming two music videos because now the new CD with 36 songs was released, not with the first Ryan Paris, but the new one as now, "I Want To Love You Once More", "Sensation Of Love", "Yo Quiero Amarte Una Vez Más"," Together Again ". Then there are a couple of songs, which have video, a video that we are finishing, is a song a little more Latin, is not a reggaeton but is nice and then a pop-dance stuff. And then we'll work on a new video too, but with the new songs.

Is there anything you regret from your past?

No ... everything is good. In life, always happens strange and new things, you never know, what will happen and what will not happen, but also ... I would like to have more money, cars, I wish the world were a place with more friendly people sometimes, but you can not change that sometimes, so I try to be good with friends and do the best I can.

Thinking of a distant future, how would you like to be remembered?

I would like to be remembered as a smiling, nice person ... I hope they say so ... and that he made songs in 2055 very nice ... (laughs), to be remembered for my songs and I hope to make 2-3 more beautiful songs, that people can say: Oh I fell in love!.

And that they become top 1 in the charts?

Top 1 in the hearts of fans, this is a much better thing.

Do you have any words for the fans in Peru?

Yes, I wait for all the fans of Peru, I want to go to Peru, I want to sing for you, I hope to sing very soon and to be all together. Thank you!!.

Thanks a lot dear Ryan!!

     

An evening with Ryan Paris (Part I)

From my last visit to Germany, I had many interesting experiences, one of them was my visit to Ryan Paris in Mainz. He is a very nice and open person and he talked in my language. My partner and me were very grateful with his hospitality. I felt lucky to know the singer of the famous song "Dolce Vita" and of course I could not lose this chance for make to him an interview. 

Here the first part of this conversation with Mister Fabio Roscioli, more known as Ryan Paris.  

How did you start inside the music world? Do you have relatives who were related to music?

The brother of my grandfather was a lyrical singer, who sang with Maria Callas, in Italy and Europe. And my grandfather had all the records, the vinyls of all these songs, the arias, the operas. And when I was very little, I liked it very much, I do not know why, but I sang it all, so I started to sing there. Time after I was evolving, I liked the guitar, I had a group when I was 15, a rock group, I started with the performances, always on, then I was a South American’s guitar teacher when I was 20 years old, and at one point someone told me that my voice was beautiful, then I tried to sing and I met the composer of "Dolce Vita", who wrote this song for me, and I started like this.

Who told you about the talent of your voice?

Who told me? I was told by a great Brazilian music guitarist. He was touring by Europe with Maria Bethania, a Brazilian singer who was well known in the 70's - 80's, in Brazil, and he liked Rome a lot, came on tour and stayed in Rome. In Rome he worked doing shows. And on Saturdays he invited all friends to his house, also to me as a Brazilian guitar teacher, he was a very nice person and we started the friendship. Because I really liked the music of Vinicius de Moraes, Milton Nascimento, Jobim and one day, they were playing together, because there were many people, the best ones of samba music in Rome and there was a song called "Insensatez", and I sang it, I said I can sing it. Then I was singing sometimes, and he came to me and said: You Fabio, you have to sing!.

How old were you?

With him I was 24 - 26

Was that after your rock band?

I had a rock band, we made New Wave, I had rock bands when I was 17 and we made Led Zepellin covers, The Beatles covers, songs like that.

Covers of your favorite bands?

My favorite bands at that time… Pink Floyd, I really liked the Beatles, then I started to know more like Queen, Led Zepellin, then I got to know more and more and listen more. I liked English music a lot.

If you were not into the music, what else you could do?

I could do music, if I weren’t doing music, I would make music (laughs).  I have studied architecture, I have worked as an actor in the world of cinema. I worked on science fiction films like "The Conquest of the Moon" and then small roles to earn some money. Also in "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​with Robert de Niro.

That’s interesting, because you know this movie was took for the Modern Talking videoclip of "Brother Louie" in 80's

Oh really?, I did not know ...

And did you continue acting after this?

No, I did that to earn some money and then I've always been doing music.

So, do you like music more than acting

No, both, I am a singer and I am an actor, but the music is more my... I also like acting, but it is difficult if you start with music ... there are few cases of singers and actors that they are good in both.

What musical genre you like the most?

It's hard…. I like rock, I like Italodance, I like South American music, I mean Brazilian music, I like all music, I also like classical music, you know, everything. I also like modern pop music now, I also like hip hop, rap, but if I have to say a genre that I like the most, it would be pop music, in English.

Do you know the German scene, the Schlagerpop? What do you think of this music?

The Schlager has interesting things, it seems to me many times that the Schlager is similar to the music Italodisco of the 70's. Well in one part, the other Schlager that is more sung, I do not like it so much because it is sometimes too simple.

You speak Spanish very well, how many languages ​​do you know?

I'm Spanish! My name is Ryan Barcelona (laughs). No ... because I really like Spanish, I did my first tour in Spain in 1974. I was never in Spain before. I arrived and the man from Catalonia tried to speak to me a bit of Catalan that is different. And we were talking, we were speaking in Spanish and I did not realize it, because Spanish and Italian are very similar, Portuguese is harder, French I speak well, I studied a lot it and German I studied here, It's about 24 or 25 years I'm here.

Why did you come to Germany?

I married a Dutch woman, and then I had a son, we separated and I could not leave my son here alone, then I stayed in Germany.

About producing, which influences you follow and put on your songs?

I can not say that I am a producer, I am a co-producer, because I worked for example, in my first production that was in 93, I worked with several DJs in Italy. But before I was produced by Pierluigi Giombini who wrote "Dolce Vita" , "Fall In Love" the first LP, "Besoin D'amour", all these songs, and then… I started myself, after the period of "Dolce Vita" that became fading, (because it is difficult to be always number one). But I have always continued writting and in 1994 I wrote a song called "I Wanna Love You Once Again", which I presented to Enigma. This song came out in 2000 in a compilation "The best of Ryan Paris", produced in Torino by a friend and then was released on 2009 produced by Eddy Mi Ami, and was a great success. And I did in 2013 the Spanish version. "Yo Quiero Amarte Una Vez Más", so with this song that was started with the producer of Enigma, but we did not finish it, later came the version of 2009 and 2013, so I worked with several producers and I contributed, I go with my ideas, I play a little guitar, I sing ... I do not know if you can say producer, better co-producer.

Wich genre is this song?

It is called Italodisco New Generation.

By the way, there is a new generation of Italodisco producers of the 80's, but this music has different sounds.

No, it is done with the same sound, the difference is many times, that the sounds are not made with the original keyboard but with a virtual keyboard, then the sound is not exactly like the old one. For example, all the productions I have done, from my penultimate vinyl with Tony Costa, is done with virtual sound. In the last production are 2-3 songs made with the original keyboards, you feel the difference. The first "I Wanna Love You Once Again" was made with virtual and original, then also you feel the difference. I have worked with Eddy Mi Ami, who has done a lot of things, one of my songs produced by him is number 2 in Poland, number 1 is the song of Albert One, produced by Eddy Mi Ami. Then the Italodisco New Generation works.

Why do you think the Italodisco can never die?

Of course, like the pop, like the Beatles, like everything else, it can not. A friend of mine in 1995 made a film and won an award, he made a short film that practically said it. He go to a city and discovers a cinema, because in this age of the future, people did not know about the cinema anymore, people could not see it because it did not exist. And they open the cinema, people discover the cinema and part of the movie is a film by Charles Chaplin, and then men discover that they could laugh and smile again and this short film won an Oscar. Then the music is like the smile, if there is not ... very bad!.

And do you have any favorite producers now?

I really like Eddy Mi Ami, I also like Phil Rizzi... I also like Andy Emme, who does not do music from the 80's, but he actually worked on my album very well. I know there are many like Italove, there is Fred Ventura, Italoconnection, I really like them.

There are also singers from the 80's who keep up with the years, like, for example, he is not exactly italodisco, but he is very successful at the moment, the ex-singer of Modern Talking. Thomas Anders.

Because he seems to me a very good person and he sings very well.

And other 80’s singers are coming back like for example Tom Hooker

Personally, I do not know Tom Hooker, but he has been the singer of Den Harrow, he did all those songs, and he also made a song that I really liked "Looking For Love", was number 7 or 6, or 1 or 2 in The charts, it’s a beautiful song, Tom Hooker is a great singer. Then I know, Albert One, Ken Laszlo I know Ken very well, Fred Ventura and Scotch. Now I was in concert with Ivanna Spana. Then I meet P Lion, another great singer. I met Mark Francis.

I usually ask this question to disco singers. Do you feel that disco music is not valued by crowds, like for example other music genres like rock?

Rock has many different situations, it also means different styles of rock. Disco music is a very nice music, it is for people who like music, sometimes rock is preferred by people who like to be accelerated ahh!! uhh!!, but it's beautiful, when you go to see a concert of Queen, Scorpions, rock music has the greats ones and very known, many people go and when people get together a lot of people feel better.

That’s maybe because, like this saying says, "Fans make the stars", if one has many fans, become famous and become a great star.

Yes, it's true, fans make stars

And sometimes you can be a great singer, a great musician, but if you do not have fans, nobody will know about your work and you can end up forgotten and in oblivion… this usually happens

Yes, right!, I'm very happy because coming from singing "Dolce Vita", I've done songs now in 2009, 2013, 2015, songs that were number 1. It's great. I got it, because it is not an easy thing. People think that a singer like that makes a lot of money, but actually is not truth, the truth is this, it's not always like that, this is a second thing. A musician singer, he has to make music and sing, he can not always stay in "Dolce Vita ". One can not do the same from morning to night, people like to change to new stuff and other songs, and if they are written by me and work ... oh well!

To be continued...