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. The group includes Maurizio Vandelli (former lead member of ''

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(member of ''

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(conductor and arranger) and Michele Torpedine (record producer). The band formed in 1989, when they met in Cortina, at the foot of Sorapis mountain, all to be there on vacation. Since then they played together almost every year-end. They published their first and only album in 1993, ''Walzer d'un blues''. The group then made a short tour to promote the album with dates in Milan, Rome and Bethlehem. After several years of hiatus the group reunited in

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, performing the song "Spiove il sole" together with Zucchero's daughter Irene Fornaciari.

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* {{Authority control Musical groups established in 1989 Italian pop music groups Pop music supergroups Blues musical groups