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Victor Calderone (born March 20, 1967 in
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, United States) is an American electronic music producer, DJ and
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er.


Biography

Raised in the Bensonhurst section of
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, Calderone was introduced into
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's nightlife by his older brother, Cesar, who was very active in the club music business. Calderone began to dabble with turntables and other DJ-related equipment at 15. A decade later, in 1991, music mogul
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signed both Calderone and his partner Gene LaFosse (they collaborated on a short-lived techno act called Program 2) to a contract deal with
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. Shortly after the release of their first album, the group disbanded and Calderone took a self-imposed exile away from the music industry. During the time he removed himself from the club music industry, Calderone worked in the restaurant business but eventually was encouraged to work on new projects including his first solo record, "Give It Up". Calderone later returned to #1 for two weeks in 2001 with "Are You Satisfied?," featuring vocals by
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. Further inspired by New York's then-thriving club scene, Calderone landed gigs at many major events in the city. Calderone obtained residencies at the Roxy in New York and Liquid in
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. He then met and commenced a successful relationship with
Madonna Madonna Louise Ciccone ( ; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she has been recognized for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, ...
in 1998. Impressed by Calderone's innovative vision and style, he was commissioned to remix " Frozen", the first single released from her '' Ray of Light'' album. Since 1998, he has remixed eleven other singles for Madonna: Ray of Light, Sky Fits Heaven, Skin, Beautiful Stranger, American Pie,
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, Don't Tell Me, What it Feels like for a Girl,
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,
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. Following up on Madonna's recommendation, Sting selected Calderone to remix his song " Desert Rose," the second single from his 1999 '' Brand New Day'' album. The
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singer did not only hire Calderone to remix the single, which was something he had never done before with his music, but even returned to the studio with him to re-record the vocals to match the remixed song's new dance-oriented rhythms. The song spent 80 weeks on the Billboard dance chart including nine consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart. Besides his work with Madonna and Sting, his credits as remixer includes work for such artists as
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, and
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, amongst others. He has also collaborated with other house music producers—including Mac Quayle and most notably
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, the first Grammy Award winner in the Dance Music category. Their joint effort, known as The Collaboration released a popular multi-CD set and several hit single tracks. After a long string of successful albums and singles, Calderone established his Evolve brand in 2005 as a way to coalesce his numerous residencies around the world, including Montreal, Tel Aviv, Bulgaria, and a monthly residency at New York's Pacha. With the Evolve brand now taking off globally, clubgoers have quickly begun to equate the word with joy-inducing, risk-taking sets that shatter musical boundaries and the conventions of what a DJ set “should” be.


Personal life

Calderone resides in NYC.


Discography


Albums

* 1999: ''E=VC²'' * 2001: ''E=VC², Vol. 2'' * 2003: ''Resonate'' * 2004: ''Statrax Unmixed, Vol. 1'' * 2007: ''Evolve''


Singles/EPs

* 1997: "Give It Up" * 1997: "Beat Me Harder" * 1997: "The Price of Love" * 1999: "Give It Up 2000" * 1999: "In Front (Wan It)" * 2001: "Are You Satisfied?" * 2002: "The Drive" * 2003: "Deep Dark Jungle" * 2004: "Resonate" * 2010: "Boarding Pass / Terminal B" * 2010: "Homegrown" * 2011: "Pleasure Grip" * 2012: "The Journey Begins" (With Nicole Moudaber) * 2015: "Burden" * 2015: "Requiem" (on the compilation ''A-Sides Volume III'') * 2015: "Roll EP"


Selected remixes

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* " Precious" -
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Heaven's What I Feel "Heaven's What I Feel" is a song recorded by the Cuban-American singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan for her eighth studio album '' gloria!'' (1998). The track's lyrics were written by famed Colombian songwriter Kike Santander, who also produced the t ...
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* " Push It" -
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* " Insatiable" -
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* " Naughty Girl" -
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* " Work It Out" - Beyoncé Knowles * "
Independent Women "Independent Women Part I" is a song recorded by American group Destiny's Child for the soundtrack to the film adaptation of the 1970s television series ''Charlie's Angels''. It was written and produced by production duo Poke & Tone, consisting ...
" - Destiny's Child * " American Pie" -
Madonna Madonna Louise Ciccone ( ; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she has been recognized for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, ...
* " Beautiful Stranger" - Madonna * "
Die Another Day ''Die Another Day'' is a 2002 spy film and the twentieth film in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions. It was directed by Lee Tamahori, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and written by Neal Purvis and Rober ...
" - Madonna * " Don't Tell Me" - Madonna * " Frozen" - Madonna * "
Hollywood Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (disambiguation) * Hollywood ...
" - Madonna * "
Music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
" - Madonna * " Ray of Light" - Madonna * " Sky Fits Heaven" - Madonna * " What It Feels Like for a Girl" - Madonna * " Lola's Theme" - Shapeshifters * " Never Gonna Fall" -
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See also

* List of Number 1 Dance Hits (United States) *
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References


External links


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