Maurizio De Jorio - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Maurizio De Jorio is an italo disco

Italo disco

Italo disco encompasses much of the dance music output in Europe during the 1980s. It is one of the world's first forms of mostly electronic dance music and evolved during the late 1970s and early 1980s in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and other parts of Europe...

and Eurobeat

Eurobeat

Eurobeat is a form of italo-disco/hi-NRG music that developed in the late 1980s.In the United States, Eurobeat was sometimes marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits....

musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

from the 1990s to the present.

Background

Like most musicians in the Eurobeat

Eurobeat

genre, he has performed under a number of pseudonyms for various labels (including A-Beat-C, Delta, and SinclaireStyle). Maurizio De Jorio is probably most well known for his song "Night of Fire" which he performed under the Niko alias. He is also incredibly popular for the songs he performed that appeared in the anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

Initial D

is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno which has been serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine since 1995. It has been adapted into a long-running anime series by OB Planning, Studio Comet, Studio Gallop, Pastel, and A.C.G.T, and a live action film by Avex and Media Asia...

. Some of these songs include: Marko Polo - "Speedy Speed Boy", Marko Polo - "Stop Your Self Control", Morris - "Crazy for Your Love", D. Essex - "Take Me to the Top", D.Essex - "Music for Hire", Max Coveri - "Golden Age", Max Coveri - "Running in the 90s", Edo Boys - "No One Sleep in Tokyo", and Niko - "Night of Fire". Currently, De Jorio sings as Niko and Dejo for Bratt Sinclaire

Bratt Sinclaire

Bratt Sinclaire is an Italian eurobeat/italo-disco producer. He has produced a countless number of tracks for the Super Eurobeat series, a.k.a. SEB, the world's longest running series of dance compilation albums...

's label SinclaireStyle.

Former aliases

7th Heaven
Casanova
Charlie Tango
D-Essex
D.Essex
David Essex
Derreck Simons (now used by Tomas Marin)
Kevin Johnson
Marko Polo
Max Coveri
Morris
Oda
Roswell

Songs

7th Heaven - It's My Life
7th Heaven - Last Christmas

Casanova - Feel the Passion
Casanova - Help Me to Say Goodbye
Casanova - I Did It for Love
Casanova - I Would Die for You
Casanova - In The Name of Love
Casanova - Jealous Guy
Casanova - Just for Tonight
Casanova - Lost in the Time
Casanova - Power of Love
Casanova - Same Old Feeling
Casanova - Superfly
Casanova - The Hero
Casanova - Under Pressure

Charlie Tango - Tattoo

Dejo - 1.2.3.4. Fire!
Dejo - Too Young to Fall in Love

D-Essex - All Your Love (Dance Mix)
D-Essex - Burning Love
D-Essex - Demolition Man
D-Essex - Listen to the Rhythm
D-Essex - Tokyo Tokyo

D. Essex - Boom Boom Fire
D. Essex - Breakin' The Law
D. Essex - Dancing Crazy
D. Essex - Farenheit Euronight
D. Essex - Hyper Star Energy
D. Essex - Master Power
D. Essex - Music for Hire
D. Essex - Music Forever
D. Essex - Restless and Wild
D. Essex - Take Me to the Top
D. Essex - Thank You-Arigato
D. Essex - Victim of Love

David Essex - Goodbye Illusion
David Essex - Love & Celebration
David Essex - Sin of Love

Derreck Simons - TNT

Dr. Love ft. D. Essex - Max Power

Edo Boys - No One Sleep in Tokyo

Kevin Johnson - Yankee

Marko Polo - Baby Queen Seventeen
Marko Polo - Cyberdance Technotrance
Marko Polo - Hai Hai Hai (Dance Across the Nations)
Marko Polo - I Want to Believe
Marko Polo - Mad Guy
Marko Polo - Money Go!
Marko Polo - Peace and Love for Christmas
Marko Polo - Saturday Night
Marko Polo - Speedy Speed Boy
Marko Polo - Stop Your Self Control
Marko Polo - Tokyo Fever

Max Coveri - Golden Age
Max Coveri - High Desire
Max Coveri - Like a Thunder
Max Coveri - Running in the 90s
Max Coveri - Supercar

Morris - Bad Tonight
Morris - Crazy for Your Love
Morris - Destination Unknown

Morris & Cherry - Go Save Goal
Morris & Cherry - Still Love You All

Niko - 1 for the Money, 2 for the Show
Niko - Electric Power
Niko - It's My Life
Niko - Let's Go Wild!
Niko - Livin' On A Prayer
Niko - Made of Fire
Niko - Night of Fire
Niko - Night of Fire (For Christmas Mix)
Niko - Night of Fire (Hyper Techno Mix)
Niko - Onto the Beat of my Bang Bang!
Niko - Pilot Is the Hero
Niko - Speedway
Niko - Superbad
Niko - Super Eurobeat
Niko - We Came for the Rock

Niko & Cherry - Niko Kickboxing

Oda - Face to Face
Oda - Sex Crime
Oda - Shy Gun
Oda - Speed Demon (King of Kings)

Roswell - Alien Light
Roswell - Come On!
Roswell - Rock in the Fire

Tokyo Future ft. Marko Polo & Mako - Tokyo Future

Inclusion in other media

Many of his songs are used for fad music on the website, YTMND
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His promotional model, Edoardo Arlenghi, is used in place of his own image for the marketing of songs under his pseudonym "Niko". He can be seen most prominently in the music video for the song "Night of Fire".

De Jorio's #1 worldwide hit Night Of Fire was originally sung by Edoardo Arlenghi but was changed at the last moment.

External links

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