Valerie Dore
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Monica Valerie Stucchi (born 28 May 1963) in Milan, singer, best known as Valerie Dore. She start fame during the mid 1980s as part of the Italo disco and became influence for many European disco.
Stucchi worked as graphic and was a hobbiest singer when she was discovered at 20 age by the famous Italo producer Roberto Gasparini. At that moment she was a singer in a group where Bruno Guaitamacchi was banjo's leader. They was called "Watermalon string band" and played Bluegrass in underground's pub at Milan.
Monica Stucchi choose the Artist name "Valerie Dore" and became to work for her first song, "The Night", that was part of the slowly and sweet style of Italo Disco, after called "romantic dance". Monica Stucchi and her song became success and touch hit in the European charts and sold over 1,500,000 copies. In 1980s years Valerie Dore was an eccentric stage Artist, with an impressive looks and moviment; her "new romantic look" became as a new style look for lots girls in Germany, French and Swisse.
In 1984, the important music's Italo newspaper "Sorrisi e Canzoni", give to her a prestigious prize as one of the best new Artist of the year. Second song, "Get Closer" , shared identical arrangements with the first...and similar at the third song "It's so easy". "Get Closer" also made it to the European Top 10 whilw "It's So Easy" was her third consecutive top 10 hit in Italy and Switzerland. In Festivabar, in Italy in Arena di Verona, she won the second place of DJ Star. In 1985, in Italy, she won the TV show "Azzurro" in a group with some other international artists. In 1985 Valerie Dore choose to change staff because, in recording studio's, they did her abuse and because she doesn't like to have only so much ripetitive compositions.
In September 1985, in an old castle near Milano, in Carimate, Monica Stucchi started to recorder an LP with a new staff. The result of this new partnership is the first sound of its kind in all the world: traditional celtic sound join with disco/pop. They made a concept album (10 songs. Not only disco dance, also pop and some soul like new age) dealing with the legends of King Arthur. It was the first "concept album" in Italo Dance's story. "The Legend" is considered to be the best Italo Disco album and one of the best to be released in the 1980s. With romantic-synth sound and a new seductive little bit dark but very sweet atmosphere, enriched with live instruments and Celtic folklore elements, it's a very refined album. The first single to be released "Lancelot" (Italy hit 9) confirm Valerie Dore as an Artist absolutely original in Disco contest. Lancelot is the most commercial song of the LP. Its follow-up "King Arthur" was a moderate hit outside Italy and chose , from RAI, as signature tune of the best's Italian Hit parade music's TV show called "Discoring". "The Magic Rain" and "Bow and Arrow" were radio hits. "The sword inside the heart" is an excellent duet sang S. Fossati.
Monica Stucchi is the first Artist in the world who join storical sounds and storical look in the usually "futuristic" discoteque's style. After her, lots singer and DJ became to using storical or ancient sound in discoteque too. Every stage expression of Valerie was so full of eccentric romantic feeling that some journalist became to call her as "Queen of the new romantic italo dance style"; now Monica rest in the musical story as the great iconic of that particular 1980's style. In 1986 she was n° 6 in a list of "Sorrisi e canzoni"'s public preference concerning the best Italian's female artists.
In 1987 Valerie Dore left also her producer Roberto Gasparini. For a new interesting proposal, she was called in London from KP Schleinitz and Ralph P. Ruppert. She went there alone with her young love.
In 1988, in London, Valerie Dore recorded "Wrong Direction". At 24 year, Monica Stucchi produced it by herself with her future husband, Mauro Zavagli, for their new disco label "MZM PRODUCTION" that mean MauroZavagliMonica Production. Worked in studio by Ralph Ruppert and played from some great musicians like Nick Beegs from Kajagoogo and Marck Price, the record made it to number 23 in Italy, not more because, unexpected, Valerie Dore choose to stop all promotion publisced by EMI ITALIA and stopped all new pubblication in every other part of the world. "Wrong Direction", written by Dave Libby, is an early example of energetic music and is considered to be Dore's best song.
For have normal and wormer chances in her life, she choose to do a temporary stop at her frantic Star's business. In 1989 she choose to get married and then left Italy with Mauro; they wanted know the really poor world and try to find their dreamt island.
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[edit] New directions
In 1990-91, Monica and his husband were in Madagascar where started a casually collaboration with a local group. They wanted to record a new LP in caraibic style. But, after some contact with biggest international labels companies, she understood that, for that time, her new dance sound was too much out of Italian's disco business mentality; naturally, all of us know, she was in the right direction because, round two or three years, became the clamorous revolution's dance in style caraibic and Latin American.
In 1992 the Zyx label released Dore's The Legend retitled The Best of Valerie Dore with bonus tracks the extended versions of her dance hits "The Night", "Get Closer" and "It's So Easy", plus two remixes of "The Night" done by DJ Oliver Momm.
In 1994 Mauro and Monica were living in Arezzo, Toscana. In centre of this caratteristic little city they had a curious store of Italian's antique golden iron beds who Valerie restored with her hands.
[edit] Valerie Dore's RETURN
- November 2006 : Valerie Dore returned, unexpected, in one Italian compilation with a new song "How do I get to Mars?". Unexpected she showed herself in a really inmoust personal web site www.valeriedore.it (at the moment only in Italian languages) who moved big interest round her world.
In 2007 , for 5 month, she did the first serious therapeutic Italian radio reality for to stop smoke sigarettes, in best "Radio 24" ... because she was smoking from 16 years. She wanted try to istigate more persons was possible in do this right choice. She is the first Artist in the world who has did a reality secretaly.
In 2007 , for 5 month, she did the first serious therapeutic Italian radio reality for to stop smoke sigarettes, in best "Radio 24" . Practically she was smoking from 15 years and, through radio and in an internet forum, she act as a crazy abstinence and tried to istigate all in this right choice: stop smoke. She is the first Artist in the world who has did a reality secretaly, without show her artist name and her face.
In 2007 she recorded two single that choose to stopped, as every contact in music world, for don't leave her lovely father during his sick agony.
Meanwhile, in her little home studio, she doesn't leave music and has composed lot's new song.
Now, at the end of 2009, she is preparring a new pubblications.
[edit] note
Her album "The best of Valerie Dore" was re-released in 2001.
German electronic band Scooter covered "The Night" which became a huge dance hit in 2003. Electronic group Recall also made a version of "The Night". With five million of her singles and albums sold, Dore's name featured prominently in compilations that included her work.
Swedish recording act Sally Shapiro cites Valerie Dore as one of the biggest influences in her music, an update of the Italo disco style with electro-techno production styling. A promo poster for Valerie Dore's Get Closer appears tacked to the wall in Shapiro's video for "Jackie-Jackie (Spend This Winter With Me)".
French house artist Play Paul sampled "Get Closer" in his house music tracks, "Spaced Out I" and "Spaced Out II".[1]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Singles
- 1984 - The Night [#14 Italy, #8 Switzerland, #5 Germany, #23 France, #29 Austria]
- 1984 - The Night - Remix
- 1985 - Get Closer [#12 Germany, #12 Italy, #11 Switzerland, #33 France]
- 1985 - It's So Easy [#13 Italy, #10 Switzerland, #51 Germany]
- 1985 - It's So Easy To Get Closer In The Night Megamix
- 1985 - Bow & Arrow
- 1985 - The Wizard
- 1985 - The Magic Rain
- 1985 - Guinnevere
- 1986 - King Arthur [#26 Italy, #24 Switzerland]
- 1986 - Lancelot [#9 Italy, #36 Germany, #10 Switzerland]
- 1986 - King Arthur / The Battle
- 1986 - The Sword Inside The Heart
- 1986 - The End Of The Story
- 1986 - On The Run
- 1988 - Wrong Direction [#23 Italy]
- 2006 - How do I get to Mars?
[edit] Albums
- 1986 - The Legend
- 1992 - The Best Of
