Lenny Fontana is an

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DJ from

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Biography

Fontana first began deejaying professionally in the mid-1980s, playing at clubs such as Studio 54 and The Underground NYC. His first major exposure was with the track "A Mystical Journey", which hit #30 on the US ''

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'' Hot Dance Club/Play

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in 1996. He won international recognition as part of the production team for Powerhouse featuring

Duane Harden Duane Harden (born August 5, 1971) is a German-born American dance music vocalist and songwriter who has sung on several hits by various producers. Harden is particularly famous in the United Kingdom, having sung on two best-selling dance sing ...

, who scored a #1 dance hit in the US with " What You Need"; the song also hit #13 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2000, he returned to the UK chart with "Chocolate Sensation" (featuring DJ Shorty), peaking at #39. He continues to make international appearances regularly. His 2008 single "Wait 4 U" (a collaboration with UK producer Ridney and vocalist Larisa) was released through the Ministry of Sound (Germany) in June that year. The track had already been used on Germany's Next Top Model 2008, and Ministry's. 2011 Reportage "A Tribute To Larry Levan" The show was first broadcast on BBC 6 Music in July 2011 as a 6 part series, 10 hour documentary. It has now been broadcast three times on

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. In 2015 Lenny Fontana &

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"Raise Your Hands" (Karmic Power Records) was a huge success as WMC Miami (

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) including remixes by

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. In 2016, D-Train's follow-up single "When You Feel What Love Has" (Karmic Power Records) received worldwide attention and hit the #4 position on the

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Club Chart UK. With over 650 spins a week on daytime radio rotation in the US, the song hit the #31 position on the Nielsen Billboard Indicator Radio Chart (USA). In 2019, Fontana has worked with

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(the voice of

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on a collaboration called “Top Of the World” (Double Up Records). In 2021,

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has signed house DJ Lenny Fontana to a worldwide exclusive songwriting deal.

True House Stories interview series (podcast)

In the summer of 2020, Lenny Fontana launched his weekly Facebook Live Stream show "True House Stories". Since the end of 2020, the podcast "True House Stories" series is available on

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etc. The following artists have been interviewed by Lenny Fontana:

Carl Cox Carl Andrew Cox (born 29 July 1962) is a British house and techno club DJ, radio DJ, motorsport team owner and record producer. He is based in Frankston, Victoria, Australia. Cox has won and been nominated for numerous awards. He has perfor ...

DJ Sneak Carlos Sosa (born November 5, 1969), known as DJ Sneak, is a Puerto Rican-born American DJ and record producer raised in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is noted as being one of the second wave of Chicago house producers, (alongside Derrick ...

Little Louie Vega Luis Ferdinand Vega Jr. (born June 12, 1965), as known as "Little Louie" Vega, is an American DJ, record producer and remixer of Puerto Ricans in the United States, Puerto Rican ancestry. He is one half of the Masters at Work musical production ...

Danny Tenaglia Daniel "Danny" Tenaglia (born March 7, 1961) is an Italian American DJ and record producer. Biography Early life Tenaglia left New York in 1985 and started DJing in Miami as a resident at Cheers nightclub, playing classic New York and Chicago ...

Marshall Jefferson Marshall Julius Jefferson (born September 19, 1959) is an American musician, working in the house music subgenres of Chicago house and deep house. Biography Sometimes known as the father of house music, Jefferson was originally a record produce ...

Mousse T. Mustafa Gündoğdu (; born 2 October 1966), best known under his stage name Mousse T., is a German-Turkish DJ, record producer, film music composer and judge on season 15 of ''Deutschland sucht den Superstar'', the German version of ''Pop Idol ...

Norman Jay Norman Jay MBE (born Norman Bernard Joseph on 6 November 1957) is a British club, radio and sound system DJ. He first came to prominence playing unlicensed "warehouse" parties in the early 1980s, and through his involvement with the then-pir ...

, Michael Gray and many more.

True House Stories Podcast

Episodes

True House Stories Podcast (Special Shows)

Discography

Singles (selection) Remixes (selection)

References

External links

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