Giorgio Moroder won a bet. His brothers challenged him to play as well as they did — three months later, he returned home during Christmas break from boarding school and played for them. They lost.

Born on April 26th, 1940, Giorgio Moroder spurred a dramatic shift in pop music through his pioneering use of synthesizers and the hit songs he composed for Donna Summer and many others. As the long ...

Thanks to a little nudge from Daft Punk (see 2013’s “Random Access Memories”), mustachioed disco genius and dependable pop hit maker Giorgio Moroder, 75, came out of musical retirement this year with ...

At 76 years young, Giorgio Moroder isn’t slowing down. The disco pioneer is following the success of his 2015 comeback album Déjà Vu by gearing up for more and more new music. EW has the exclusive ...

Giorgio Moroder is going from collaborating with two robots to creating music for Cartoon Network. After Daft Punk introduced the dance music legend to a whole new generation, Moroder will deliver ...

Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, there were few artists as in-demand as Giorgio Moroder, an Italian record producer who would go on to write a plethora of hits and win a handful of Oscars for his work ...

Millions of music fans around the world know Oscar-winning songwriter Giorgio Moroder as the father of disco, synth-pop and, more recently, EDM (short for Electronic Dance Music). Credit for this goes ...

Millions of music fans around the world know Oscar-winning songwriter Giorgio Moroder as the father of disco, synth-pop and, more recently, EDM (short for electronic dance music). Credit for this goes ...

In his penthouse condo on the toniest block of Westwood, one of the world’s biggest dance music producers kicks back at his dining room table in an all-black Armani ensemble. A spread of magazine ...

Synthesizers pump through the heart of contemporary pop music, but in the early ’70s, machine-made music seemed like a sci-fi fantasy. That is, until 1976, when disco queen Donna Summer recorded her ...