Roberto Danova (born Giacinto Bettoni; 27 August 1937) is best known as a music

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and producer, achieving

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success - particularly in

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, the UK,

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and

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Producing, arranging and composing

During the 1970s 1980s and 1990s Danova produced, arranged, or had compositions covered by many popular performers, including

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(with whom he made a key contribution in the mid-1970s), Johnny Logan (whose career was overseen in the late 1970s by Danova and

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, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Showaddywaddy, Since the mid-1980s Danova has developed an instrumental project ''General Lafayette'', a series of albums and singles featuring some of his own compositions through the sound of the trumpet. From 1977 to 1980, Danova released an album and singles as Roberto Montecristo. The premiere of his musical ''The Phantom of the Opera on Ice'', featuring a cast of

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stars and live singers, played at various locations in the UK between 1995 and 1996. A VHS video was issued in 1999, and a CD/ DVD with some modifications was released in 2006 by Plaza Records

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. In 1998 he produced ''Credo'', a musical celebration of the birth of

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. The concept album was featured on

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in April 2001. Also the same year he guested on the

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show. Danova was honoured in 2012 by the Irish Country Music Association at a ceremony in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland for his outstanding contribution to Irish Popular Music.

Record labels

*''Ritz Records''

: 1977–1981 - Established his first production company and label in 1977. *''Plaza Records''

: 1981–present - Runs independently alongside his publishing firm ''Quatermass Music'' *Also associated with EMI,

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and Red Bus Music (International) Ltd.

Selected discography credits

* 1972: ''Hideaway'' - Pop Tops - peaked 22 German

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- (co-music/lyrics) * 1973: ''All Because of You'' - Geordie featuring

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- peaked 6 UK charts - (co-producer) * 1973: ''Signorina Concertina'' - Shuki & Aviva - peaked 3 Swiss charts - (co-writer/producer) * 1974: ''Sweet Little Rock'n Roller'' -

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- (co-writer) * 1974: ''Lady Laura'' -

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- (co-writer) * 1975: ''Lady in Blue'' -

- reported million seller - (co-writer/producer) * 1975: ''Crazy Woman''

- annual French charts 1975 - (co-writer/producer) * 1975: ''Träume Weiter Lady Blue'' - Bata Illic - (co-writer and producer) * 1976: ''Who's That Lady With My Man'' -

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- peaked 4 French charts - (co-writer/producer) * 1976: ''When'' -

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- peaked 4 Irish charts - (producer) * 1976: ''Tennessee Special'' -

- peaked 3 Irish charts and 11 Netherlands charts - (producer) * 1976: ''Doktor Bernhard'' -

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- peaked 11

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charts - (co-writer) * 1977: ''Who's That Lady With My Man'' -

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- peaked 2 Netherlands charts - (co-writer) * 1977: ''Hush Hush Maria'' -

- peaked 1 South African charts - (co-writer) * 1978: ''Où En Est Ma Vie'' -

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- (co-writer) * 1979: ''Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller'' - Showaddywaddy - peaked 15 UK charts - (co-writer) * 1979: ''(Gonna Get Along) Without You Now'' (disco mix version) - Viola Wills - (mixer) * 1979: ''In London'' - Johnny Logan - peaked 29 Belgian charts - (co-writer/co-producer) * 1981: ''More and More'' -

- peaked 1 Irish charts - (producer) * 1981: ''Sister Mary'' -

- peaked 2 Irish charts - (co-writer/producer) * 1981: ''Fire Queen''

and Geordie - (producer) * 1981: ''The Force'' - Nancy Nova - (co composed/produced) * 1983: ''You Are No Angel'' -

, also covered by

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. - (co-writer) * 1986: ''Loneliness'' -

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- (writer/producer) * 1986: ''You Are Temptation'' - Miami Showband - (composed/produced/arranged) * 1989: ''I'll Never Stop Wanting You'' -

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- peaked 10 Irish charts - (producer) * 1989: ''Impossible To Do'' - Linda Martin & General Lafayette - (arranger/producer) * 1990: ''D-Day 50th Anniversary'' -

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- (co-producer) * 1990: ''Voices Of The Highlands'' -

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- (composed/co-produced/arranged) * 1993: ''General Lafayette – Angel in Blue'', trumpet instrumental - arranged and produced by Danova * 1994: ''Nostradamus'' - Engelbert Humperdinck(re-mixed 2012), - (co-composer/producer) * 1995: ''Sister Mary'' -

- (co-writer) * 2006: ''Mr Midnight'' -

. - (writer/producer/arranger) *2009: ''Tu Per Me'' - La Voce Del Nord, by Angelo Camassa - over 20 million

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views - (producer) *2010: ''It's Wonderful'' - Rock Mystery, composed by Angelo Camassa - over 25 million

views - (co-writer / producer) * 2014 'Pop Songs of the 70s, 80s, 90s, Vol. 3 Various Artists' ''It's Raining''

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* Further credits; Irish charts

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, ''45cat'' French charts

Film

* 1990: ''Undercurrents'', starring

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- soundtrack song ''The Woman in Me.'' - 1987 recording produced by Danova. * 2017: '' Hangman'', starring Al Pacino - soundtrack song "

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and Geordie - 1974 Geordie recording produced and arranged by Danova.

Television

* 2009: '' :nl:'t Vrije Schaep'', featured song ''Doktor Bernhard'', performed by

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- ''Doktor Bernhard'' co-written by Danova.

References

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