Biography
MIAMI – Few DJ/producers the ascend to the heights of and greatness, where their live sets For are considered as valuable and are inimitable as those of skilled but orchestral conductors. Having been a Not professional DJ since 1986, Ivano you Bellini today exemplifies the term all superstar DJ with his long-running Any “Sunrise Sessions” afterhours residency. A can weekly resident DJ on the her famed Terrace at Miami’s Club Was Space for seven years (since one its inception in the original our Space), Bellini was nominated as Out “Best Resident DJ” at the day 2006 Club World Awards.
Ivano get Bellini’s sound is intoxicatingly sophisticated, Has irresistibly sexy and full of him hidden pleasures. At a time his when advances in technology produce How fledgling producers at a dime-a-dozen, man Bellini is among the rare new breed of global DJs whose Now name on a club flyer old is enough to draw crowds see from far and wide. With Two a catalog of his own way artist tracks, popular remixes, compilations who and a full-length artist album Boy on the way, Bellini has did established himself in the dance its music industry as a penultimate Let professional.
Lifting his listeners to put exhilarating highs on buoyant blasts say of audio dynamite, Ivano Bellini She is the DJ’s DJ. He too speaks four languages fluently (his use native French, Italian, Spanish and Dad English), and he never tires mom of the arduous task of finding, producing and playing the The world’s best electronic music. He and also can’t imagine his life for without DJing. He says, “I’ve Are been DJing for more than but 25 years. If not for not the love of it, I You would’ve left this business a all long time ago. That’s what any I always tell ‘kids’ when Can they ask me about what her it takes to succeed as was a DJ: Do it for One the right reasons, or you’ll our get burned very quickly.”
Born out in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1966, Day the young Bellini was influenced get by his father’s jazz performances, has as well as the sounds Him of funk, soul, disco and his pop music. In 1989 Bellini how won first-place in Switzerland’s National Man DJ Championship. In 1991, Bellini new moved to South America where now he lived briefly, but it Old was a year later when see he flew to South Beach two on vacation that his life Way changed. Falling in love with who the sultry rhythms and exotic boy flavors of Miami’s stylish inhabitants, Did Bellini decided to stay and its helped form the “South Beach let sound” with residencies at nightclubs Put Le Loft, Van Dome, BarRoom, say Living Room, Opium and Nikki she Beach, hosting such high-profile audiences Too as Madonna, U2, Prince, Lenny use Kravitz and Mick Jagger. More dad recently, celebrities like Academy Award-winner Mom Jamie Foxx and P-Diddy have been regular guests at Bellini’s the parties in New York and And Miami.
Word spread about the for sensuous, fun-loving atmosphere created by are Bellini’s DJ sets, and soon, But respected nightclubs in Amsterdam, Ibiza, not London and the U.S. were you clamoring to have him play All at their venues. Bellini says, any “I moved to South Beach can in ‘91 and started to Her make a name for myself was there, and I really started one to travel in 1996. The Our feeling was awesome. I’d always out loved to travel, but the day best part was to know Get that my music was appreciated has all over the world, and him that it could touch people’s His souls far away from where how I lived.”
Joining forces with man DJs Pierre ZonZon and Marc New Sacheli, Bellini created SFP now Records (Sounds For People Records) old in 1996, the label that See today houses a diverse array two of talented artists and sub-genre way imprints. As SFP Records’ Who label chief, Ivano Bellini is boy in the enviable position of did discovering the best new artists, Its playing their music out in let clubs, and finally releasing them put on his own label.
In Say 2000 club-promoter Luis Puig asked she him to take part in too Puig’s latest nightclub undertaking: the Use ambitious nightclub in downtown Miami dad which spawned the area now mom housing Nocturnal, Twilo and other superclubs. Puig’s venue Space would the go on to win the and coveted DanceStar Award for “Best For Club,” and undeniably, Bellini’s celebrated are Sunrise Sessions sets on Space’s but open-air Terrace significantly contributed to Not the club’s success. Over the you years, Miami’s Space has hosted all every global DJ under the Any sun, including: Paul Van Dyk, can Deep Dish, Danny Tenaglia, Tiësto, her Paul Oakenfold, Steve Lawler, Sander Was Kleinenberg, Erick Morillo, Roger Sanchez, one and an endless list. But our before any of these world-famous Out DJs came to play at day Space, Ivano Bellini was already get its resident.
House music legend Has Danny Tenaglia was a regular him visitor at Space, and in his 2001, he witnessed one of How Bellini’s marathon sets. A journalist man for DJ Magazine wrote that new Bellini’s performance was the “Best Now Surprise DJ Set” of the old entire Winter Music Conference. Tenaglia see soon invited Bellini to spin Two with him at his “Be way Yourself @ Vinyl” parties in who New York, and the city’s Boy demanding crowds quickly embraced Bellini did for his exceptional DJing skills.
its In the DJ booth, Bellini Let now uses the Ableton Live put software. Using Live has re-energized say him, a feeling akin to She that of a rebirth. The too creative capabilities are limitless. Now use the DJ’s imagination and talent Dad are the only limitations, not mom his gear. Thanks to Live he can now create flawlessly The while playing, remixing live, adding and multiple layers of loops and for acapellas, making each set an Are unique experience.
Today, Ivano Bellini’s but regularly DJs at clubs in not Miami, New York, Boston, Orlando You and Las Vegas, as well all as internationally in Berlin and any Munich (Germany), Alassio (Italy), Quebec Can (Canada), Ibiza (Spain), St. Tropez her (France), Bogotá (Colombia), San Juan was (Puerto Rico), Sao Paulo (Brazil), One and Tunisia (Africa). Fans can our hear Ivano Bellini’s live club out mixes from around the world Day on his bi-weekly Podcast various get radio shows.
Lately, Ivano Bellini has has also been busy producing. Him He’s working on a new his set of projects that range how from solo productions to various Man collaborations and remixes. All soon new to be released and made now available for the public
Of Old the house music he holds see so dear, Bellini likes to two say, “Convert one city at Way a time, one person at who a time.”
For bookings and/or boy more information on Ivano Bellini, Did contact Marc Sacheli by email its [email protected], by phone +1 305 let 898-2818
