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“I built a wall between me and the media. After twenty-five years, you
run out of shit to say,” Soccio tells Wax Poetics.
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About a month before thousands chanted “Disco sucks!” at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, 3. Back Issues

Gino Soccio was ensconced in his Montreal studio, sipping coffee with cognac and
laying down tracks for his second LP. Leaning against a twenty­four­channel mixing 4. Gino Soccio was the one-man-
desk, Soccio spoke like a disco evangelist during a June 1979 interview with the band behind countless disco gems
—until he vanished
Canadian Press: “Disco is more than just music. It’s a social movement, and I’m not
jiving you when I say it’s spreading to epidemic proportions. It fills a demand for 5. Magazine
people who want to blow their minds dancing.”
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Soccio had been blowing plenty of minds over the past year. His debut LP’s lead single, 8. 25th Anniversary of Common’s

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“Dancer,” had topped the Billboard disco charts for six weeks, propelling his LP
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Outline onto more than a million turntables globally. Slim and wide­eyed with a
handlebar moustache and mane of dark hair, Soccio was immediately hailed as a disco 9. The reluctant front man for Steely
auteur and a synth wizard. Trained in classical orchestration, Soccio created music Dan, Donald Fagen has become
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that mixed the glamour of European disco with the gritty bottom­end of American one of…
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From 1978 to 1985, he released music at a blistering rate: four full­length albums and
a clutch of 12­inches under his own name; singles and EPs under different monikers;
production and writing for other artists; a motion picture soundtrack.

But shortly after a 1984 alleged Montreal police­brutality incident, Soccio vanished.
There were rumors: He had lost his mind. He’d become a vagrant. He’d become a
reclusive shut­in. While many believe Soccio is another disco­inferno­turned­dance­
floor burnout, the untold truth about why one of the era’s singular talents abandoned
his career is a tale of ego, conspiracy, and betrayal.

I’ve Put Gino Soccio Behind Me

The voice on the phone has a slight accent that’s hard to place. It has the kind of tone
that can only be earned by years of cigarettes. After this author’s search that spanned
a year and ended with a bizarre twist and ten digits, the past had finally caught up
with Gino Soccio.

“I built a wall between me and the media. After twenty­five years, you run out of shit
to say,” Soccio tells Wax Poetics. In an age when many musicians retire just to come
back again, and others fight to stay in the spotlight, Soccio is an anomaly: He no longer
makes music. He claims to not use email. There are hints he uses an assumed name, as
he says cryptically, “I’ve put Gino Soccio behind me.”

Listen to our 57-minute Gino Soccio mix!

A week after that first conversation, Soccio is back on the phone, talking about his
unlikely entry into disco. He’s agreed to his first interview in two decades, but only if
personal details and information about his current life remain hidden.

Born in September 1955, Soccio started playing piano at age eight and was playing
Bach sonatas by eleven. Switched on to electronics by Kraftwerk, Stockhausen, and
Wendy Carlos in the early ’70s, he started renting synths and earned a reputation as
one of Montreal’s best keyboard specialists.

Studying philosophy at the University of Montreal, Soccio earned his living as a session
man, and in 1975, he got a call from a local producer named Pat Deserio who was
putting together a “disco” record. Soccio had never done disco and didn’t care much
for the genre. But he showed up to the studio and remembers seeing a roomful of
for the genre. But he showed up to the studio and remembers seeing a roomful of
ARPs, Moogs, and Hammonds, along with a wooden box that contained a primitive,
homemade drum machine. When Soccio asked where the other band members were,
the engineer pointed back at him and said, “You’re it!”

Kebekelektrik - War Dance (Tom Moulton Mix)

Deserio’s concept was to make a disco version of Ravel’s “Bolero” and release it with a
few other tracks under the banner Kebekelektrik. And Soccio would play every note.
“It was very labor­intensive,” says Soccio, “but at the same time, I had free rein of the
entire studio, which had never happened [before]. It was a really great learning
experience. I had never done disco. As you’re going along doing it, you fall right in love
with it.” The Kebekelektrik sessions also spawned “War Dance,” an orgy of analog
squirts and electronic flourishes that Soccio wrote and recorded on the spot, warts and
all. “I was scared shitless of that one,” he says. Buried on the B­side, Soccio the
perfectionist was told no one would ever hear the track.

The four­song LP Kebekelektrik was given the remix treatment by Tom Moulton and
released in the U.S. on Salsoul in 1978. “Bolero”—which took up the entire A­side—was
considered to be the lead track, but it was “War Dance” that caught fire on dance
floors. Curious, Soccio went to Montreal’s Lime Light where DJ Robert Ouimet spun
for a sexually diverse crowd and waited around until the song came on. Two hours
later, Soccio witnessed the reaction. “I’m just about to leave,” Soccio says, “and then
‘War Dance’ comes in, and everyone had every lick of it. And I got it there. That was
an epiphany.”

Shocked that this mistake­ridden jam could move a dance floor, Soccio leveraged the
money he’d earned and set out to record a real “artist album,” something that would
make up for the hastiness and mistakes of “War Dance.” A fan of Rubber Soul, Soccio
wanted to make a disco statement. “I wasn’t a singles guy. It was an album or
nothing.” With a $12,000 budget, Soccio used his summer break to track after­hours
at Listen Audio in Old Montreal. “On my ten­speed bike, I’d shoot down to the studio
and record for five or six hours until the cleaning lady came in.”

The sessions were marked by heavy use of synths and grease­pencil­meets­razor­
blade tape editing. Typical of his approach was the song called “Dancer,” written and
recorded as a four­minute tune but later doubled in length through mix­downs, re­
edits, and loops.

Dancer
Gino Soccio

A few months later, with his debut album still doing the demo rounds in Canada, Soccio
was recruited to produce a project called Witch Queen, with sessions in Muscle Shoals,
Alabama. Peter Alves, a Canadian studio veteran hired to coproduce, says the Muscle
Alabama. Peter Alves, a Canadian studio veteran hired to coproduce, says the Muscle
Shoals sessions were fruitful but also daunting, given that legendary artists from the
Stones to Aretha had cut at the studio: “And here we are, a couple of bozos from
Canada!”

Witch Queen was a one­off, but it gave Soccio connections to Black musicians from the
South and exposed him to real American R&B, two touchstones he would revisit
throughout his career. As Soccio was in Muscle Shoals, his full­length record was being
shopped to U.S. labels—a move that would land him greater exposure but also one
that would eventually sow the seeds of his professional downfall.

With Rod Stewart at Studio 54. Courtesy of Gino Soccio.

Statement music

Ray Caviano is supposed to be dead. But on a crisp day last November, Caviano was
sitting in his Brooklyn office talking about disco, the Paradise Garage, and Luther
Vandross. Today, the sixty­three­year­old works as an addictions counselor, but he
still exudes a fast­talking vibe that must’ve served him well when he quarterbacked a
string of hits by the likes of KC and the Sunshine Band at Henry Stone’s TK Records.
(Caviano says rumors of his demise can be traced to the untimely death of his brother
Robert, who managed Grace Jones and the Village People before passing away from an
AIDS­related illness in 1992.)

Flamboyant, charismatic, and well­attuned to both dance floors and bottom lines, Ray
Caviano was disco royalty by the end of the 1970s. His tireless promotion in DJ booths,
at roller rinks, and in underground clubs had resulted in Warner Bros. chief Mo Ostin
handing him his own label. Never shy about self­promotion, Caviano called the new
venture RFC Records, after his own initials.

Caviano recruited his buddy, Rolling Stone music writer Vince Aletti, to help run the
new label, which would focus on the freshest disco sounds. Armed with $6 million of
Mo Ostin’s money, Caviano just needed a hit. “Gino Soccio was the first artist I signed.
I fell in love with it the minute I heard it,” says Caviano, calling Soccio’s art “statement
music.”

Soccio’s music had come to New York via John “Disco” Driscoll, who was the man in
Canada when it came to dance music. Driscoll was running Quality Records at the time
and was looking to bust out of the tiny Canadian market. “I thought we had something
there,” Driscoll says. “That’s why I jumped on a plane to New York.” Driscoll’s first
appointment was with Prelude Records boss Marvin Schlachter, who liked Soccio’s
music but reckoned it needed a remix. Driscoll took a pass and went to Caviano, where
he scored a worldwide deal. The Canadian spent the rest of the day riding around New
York in a limo.

The major­label record machine was gearing up to create a disco star, and Soccio
The major­label record machine was gearing up to create a disco star, and Soccio
recalls going to New York, where Caviano “locked him up for two days” at the Hotel St.
Regis for photo shoots and media interviews. Soccio also flew to Los Angeles and met
Mo Ostin and the staff at Warner. Soccio was greeted with a stretch limo full of booze
at LAX—a surreal encounter that would stick with Soccio to this day.

The Visitors (Original)

Gino Soccio

Upon release, Soccio’s debut album, Outline, was hailed as a connoisseur classic. The
Village Voice compared Soccio to Kraftwerk and Steve Reich. Outline mixed dance­
focused cuts like the smash “Dancer” with arty cuts like “The Visitors,” which showed
up in Federico Fellini’s La Città Delle Donne. Even the Outline album cover, with its
minimalist design, portrayed Soccio as a kind of disco auteur. According to Aletti,
Soccio shifted the disco template when the genre needed it most: “Gino was certainly
unlike anything else that had been out. It was sweeter, smoother. It had a kind of
lightness that people responded to—a buoyancy.”

The album had an impact in the underground too. Soccio remembers going to the
Paradise Garage with Caviano and hearing Larry Levan spin an extended mix of
“Dancer”: “They would play that song three times in a row sometimes, and it was
already an eight­minute song. It was twenty­four minutes of ‘Dancer,’ and people just
would not get enough of it. It really was something. It blew me away.”

The William Morris Agency wanted to put Soccio on tour, but frankly, he was making
too much money as a producer. He scored club hits for Arista’s Karen Silver and
Quality’s the Mighty Pope. He composed the soundtrack for the movie Babe, a mildly
pedophilic film starring a very old Buddy Hackett and a very young Yasmine Bleeth.
In 1980, Soccio bought his parents a home in Montreal. But label interference took its
toll on his 1980 LP S­Beat, which Soccio says was a disappointment. “After that
experience, I decided to shut the studio door.”

With Peaches & Herb. Courtesy of Gino Soccio.

Try It Out

For his next record, Soccio hired Erma Shaw, a singer he’d met at Muscle Shoals. Shaw
had been discovered as a teenager by Stax cofounder Estelle Axton and was a session
vocalist at Willie Mitchell’s Royal Recording Studios in Memphis. For Soccio, she was
the perfect voice to bring out his American influences: “I wanted to go ultra, ultra
R&B, and she was Black as Black. She was Willie Mitchell’s girlfriend, she was from the
South.” With Shaw on vocals, Soccio cut the LP Closer and the lead single “Try It Out,”
South.” With Shaw on vocals, Soccio cut the LP Closer and the lead single “Try It Out,”
which spent ten weeks at the top of the disco chart in 1981. It also crossed over to
Black audiences, climbing as far as number twenty­two on the R&B chart—an
achievement Soccio said is a crowning moment in his career. “I was proud of that,” he
says. “I’d been criticized for being too Black: ‘It’s too Black, it’ll never work.’ Well, you
can never be too Black.”

Try It Out
Gino Soccio

It's Alright
Gino Soccio

In 1982, Soccio released Face to Face, a robotic funk record that flirted with hi­NRG
and yielded the hit “It’s Alright.” It was his most accomplished work so far, but what
he says in an interview with the Montreal Gazette during the album’s promotion is
telling: “It gets to me after a while, this constant pressure of wondering whether the
record will take off, or whether the royalties will come in on time.”

Personal cracks were beginning to show. In January 1984, Soccio was involved with
some kind of altercation with Montreal police. He would claim officers dragged him
from his car by the hair and beat him with a flashlight. An inquiry was launched and
the story made headlines across Canada. A more public bruising would be on the way.

A greatest hits LP, led by the single “Turn It Around” was set for release, but the
cover—featuring a lingerie­clad young woman bound by two­inch tape—ran afoul of
women’s activists, who threatened to activate a U.S.­wide boycott. Soccio wouldn’t
change the cover, citing his artistic license, and the record was shelved in the U.S. For
Soccio, it was a setback. But something else started to gnaw at him. Around this time,
he took a trip to Atlantic Records (which had since picked up the RFC imprint) and
sensed something sinister.

Listening through a pile of new Atlantic 12­inches, he hated everything: “They were
putting out the worst garbage, anything with a 4/4 bass drum on it, and I’m saying
‘Why? This is garbage!’ And then I understood, they wanted to flood the market. The
end part of disco was really bad—it was bad music. But they would put out anything as
if to gross you out. And it worked.”

Dance music was changing, and as a disco artist, Soccio didn’t like where it was going.
Digital recording and programmable synthesizers like the Yamaha DX7 were coming
onto the market, meaning producers no longer had to splice tapes and spend hours
tuning an ARP 2500 to make a dance track.

Gino Soccio—the artist who created full­length records, the studio wizard who had
mastered LFO filters and tape loops—was becoming a dinosaur.
 Gino Soccio in Brazil. Courtesy of Gino Soccio.

Human Nature

At Billboard’s 1980 International Disco Forum 8 at the Roseland Ballroom, Soccio had
appeared on a panel about the record business, saying that “producers should trust
record companies.” But by mid­decade, his relationship with the industry had soured.
Soccio issued the 1985 12­inch “Human Nature” on a new label (Celebration), but it
didn’t live up to his expectations. There are still hints of frustration in his voice:
“ ‘Human Nature’ really marked the end of my career, because I thought it was a
great record, but nobody wanted to know from it. Nobody wanted to play it, nobody
wanted to even put it in the store. It was the end of disco, and that’s when I got out.”

Soccio recalls driving around downtown Montreal, seeing boarded­up discos that only
a year earlier had been teeming. “I went through a bunch of existential questions,” he
says with a sigh. For Soccio, those questions triggered memories of his first trip to
Warner Bros. back in 1979. Soccio recalls walking through a maze of cubicles near the
front of the office, and facing a wall of death stares. Once in the disco section, Soccio
was told that the rock people hated the disco people. Disco was too popular, too Black,
and too gay. The rock staff was intimidated. “The reason that disco died, they
oversaturated the market,” Soccio says. “It was a bunch of racist, homophobic rockers
who wanted us gone.”

Soccio felt betrayed. “When I was younger, it didn’t bother me that much, but when
disco died, I understood there was a conspiracy to kill it from the beginning. It’s like,
‘The job to our shareholders is to make money, and if disco sells, then fine; but let’s
burn it out.’ ” Depressed in Montreal, he was invited by a friend to Los Angeles. Soccio
sold all his gear and moved to Hollywood. He tanned and jogged. It was his first break
in about fifteen years, and it turned into a two­and­a­half­year vacation.

By 1986, Caviano was doing time at the Taconic Correctional Facility on drug charges,
stemming from what the Village Voice reported was a $500­per­day blow habit. An
unnamed RFC staffer told the paper, “We were all doing drugs. You couldn’t see what
was serious and what wasn’t.” Disco was done and Gino Soccio had been thrown out
with the disco trash. He was barely out of his twenties.

Through the ’90s, his music collected dust in record crates, in basements, and in
storage warehouses. Soccio returned to Montreal and worked for the Canadian
government, running a program for arts grants. But in the dying summer days of
2001, Soccio placed a call to his old friend Erma Shaw. He wanted to do a track. She
flew to Montreal for three days, wrote lyrics, and recorded forty­five vocal takes on a
song the pair called “Spirits.”
song the pair called “Spirits.”

Gino Soccio - Spirits

The song was never released because it sampled the guitar line to “Hotel California”
by the Eagles. “Don Henley and them just wanted us to get rid of that riff,” Shaw told
me over the phone, adding that Soccio didn’t have the budget to recut the track
without the sample. Another roadblock, and Soccio once again reverted to the
shadows. “We just sort of lost contact with each other,” Shaw adds. “I’ve tried to reach
him, to no avail.” A few days after our interview, Shaw’s manager called me and
suggested I get hold of Soccio and pitch him on a disco review show in Las Vegas.

But at fifty­seven, Soccio feels as though his time has passed. Even as younger
generations discover his music, he believes it’s too late: “I’m just coming to grips with
it, because when I was doing this music, I was doing it for the day, I was doing it for
the minute… I wasn’t thinking, ‘Thirty­five years down the road, I hope this is still
alive.’ ” Some resentment seeps into Soccio’s words when he hears about online
comments from fans who demand more music, more singles, another album. “I guess
I’m fortunate. I don’t know how I feel about it.”

But there’s also a sense that revisiting the past has brought up a well of emotions. “I
saw some disco artists keep going after the disco era, and put out album after album
that didn’t sell. I didn’t want to be one of those… I didn’t want to dilute my catalog, my
repertoire, in that way.”

Soccio won’t say what he does for work these days, only telling me he has “business
interests.” He still lives somewhere in Montreal and prefers to be left alone. But even
as he tries to bury his past, it simply won’t die. In a way, Soccio’s career mirrors the
genre he fell in love with thirty­seven years ago. “Everything I hear is disco. It’s all
disco to me. Fuck Billy Joel and ‘it’s all rock and roll.’ It’s still disco to me. That’s what
it is.”

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Kenny High
You tell him he's wrong!! His music will never die and he is missing out. He is doing
himself a disservice as well as his fans like me that will always follow him. He needs to
return, there was no one like him!! He would take over the club scene if he returns!!
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Kris Jorjez
Gino, come back and do a DJ tour like Giorgio Moroder. I know you are definitely loved
in Chicago!
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Thank you for this interview ! I had been meaning to hear about Gino for years. I was just born
when his records came out but I play them today and kids still love it, from Montreal to Philly.
This interview helps bringing back the memory of Montreal as the great disco city it once was
and Gino is a huge part of it. Best of luck to you Gino if you read this. And it you ever step step
into a club full of raver kids going wild on “Dancer” in 2013, I hope you can share a smile with
and Gino is a huge part of it. Best of luck to you Gino if you read this. And it you ever step step
into a club full of raver kids going wild on “Dancer” in 2013, I hope you can share a smile with
us.

– Mathieu Grondin
MAY 29TH, 2013 AT 4:18 PM

This was a really fantastic piece. Thanks for all the hard work and sleuthing it took to track
Gino down; it’s nice to hear a little from him.

It’s clear that Gino was a man who valued quality over quantity. That’s rare, but shows through
in his productions. You said in the interview that he doesn’t use the internet. Is it clear to him
just what an influence he has over music being produced to this day? You could ask Todd
Terje who had arguably one of the biggest dance tracks of 2012 and he’d tell you that Soccio
laid all the groundwork.

I think the controlled collapse of disco was hard on everyone at the time. But blacks and gays
have always been oppressed in our society (and continue to be) so it’s no surprise that these
companies would want to benefit from their misfortune.

I would love to hear “Spirits”. In today’s internet culture, it would be trivial to release the track,
even with the Eagles’ sample and keep it under the radar. Just put it up somewhere like
soundcloud and don’t tell the record labels; they never notice a thing!

If you have the opportunity to speak to Gino again, please tell him that we’re thankful for the
music, and if he did want to produce any new material he’ll have our full support this time
around.

– MARATHON
MAY 29TH, 2013 AT 9:04 PM

If anybody who know’s him sees this, I’ll record the all the guitar tracks you need in my own
studio myself and send them to you. the though of something new not coming out because of
that is heartbreaking.

AA

– A.A. WALLACE
MAY 30TH, 2013 AT 9:33 AM

awesome interview!

gino had a youtube channel few years ago too it seems

http://www.youtube.com/user/GinoSoccio1955

– RYAN BISHOP
MAY 31ST, 2013 AT 3:20 AM

Thank you very much for this interview. Although it is sad to read from Gino’s point of view, his
opinions have to be respected, for this man is a legend.

But as mentioned in the interview, one thing has to be clear: “He still lives somewhere in
Montreal and prefers to be left alone. But even as he tries to bury his past, it simply won’t die.”

THANK YOU SO MUCH GINO FOR SUCH GREAT MUSIC IN ALL THOSE YEARS AGO.

“Everything I hear is disco. “It’s all disco to me. Fuck Billy Joel and ‘it’s all rock and roll.’ It’s still
disco to me. That’s what it is.”

That’s it Gino. Your’re ABSOLUTELY right.

– Paulo Gonzalez
JUNE 1ST, 2013 AT 6:48 AM

Excellent interview. I adore Gino’s stuff, and I didn’t get to experience it first time around, it is
enduring and a real shame how people got their grubby little paws on music and drove the
Excellent interview. I adore Gino’s stuff, and I didn’t get to experience it first time around, it is
enduring and a real shame how people got their grubby little paws on music and drove the
talent out. Fuck rock and roll indeed. Disco forever!

– Lloyd Copper
JUNE 2ND, 2013 AT 5:22 AM

you can Spirits here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZalLkGZT0k

– james
JUNE 7TH, 2013 AT 8:55 AM

I love this article/interview with Gino. I’ve been a big fan from the first “Dancer” 12″ in 1979. On
Facebook just 3 weeks ago, I posted, “Gino Soccio, where the hell are you man” ! I got a lot of
responses too, even from LIME’s female singer Denyse LePage. I started as a Disco DJ in
1977 in the clubs, but when the Outline LP was released that spring, it really changed the
game. The sound was so incredible ! It was electronic, it had soul, it was like the perfect beat.
Plus the wonderful artwork of Greg Porto to boot. I also own all his works on vinyl & cd’s and
wish he could reconsider coming back, to school some of these artists out here. I would love
to meet him one day & tell him how much the world still loves him for what he produced. In the
summer of 1979, I was in Italy DJing at my uncles disco on the beach in Calabria. He was
GOD there. His music would be on 5 different radio stations at the same time. It was like every
20 minutes…………DANCER, GOT TO KEEP ON MOVIN’…………And we still are dancing to
disco. It just changed it’s name to protect the innocent :)

– ROCKY LAVORATA
JUNE 26TH, 2013 AT 8:28 PM

Great article! Thanks! Loved to see some well-deserved ink spent on Gino.

Good to see you corrected the spelling error on Mo Ostin’s name (“Mo Austin”) that occurs
repeatedly in the print edition.

– JONATHAN HERTZBERG
JULY 29TH, 2013 AT 3:14 PM

I just want to say…amazing article. thanx so much for doing it. but more importantly i’d like to
say to mr. gino soccio: when i was very down and out at one point in my life a few years ago i
sought out the JOYS of disco and it just so happened that i’d heard about you on some blog
somewhere at the time.
to my delight i came across a copy of “Outline” on cassette at a thrift store and didn’t think
twice about purchasing it. into my car deck it went…and. i don’t know….it saved my life i feel.
so much of that album and it’s brilliance took off into me…a new life…a brand new life.
“Dancer” floored me with it’s energy, precision, and majesty. but what brought me to tears (so
to speak) was “there’s a woman”….experimental and certainly not dance-floor friendly but
REAL. thannk you sir for that.

– BCR
JULY 31ST, 2013 AT 5:40 AM

OH My Good love Mister Soccio!!! but Is not possible is french the article?? My english is very
Lose!!!
Ok Thk! You!!

– siris
NOVEMBER 8TH, 2013 AT 3:42 PM

I was there on the dance floors when it all happened. So thank you Mr. Soccio, even if you
never produce another sound, I’m content with the ones you did.

– ayeM8y
JANUARY 13TH, 2014 AT 1:13 AM

Such a sad, but truthful story. A lot of Disco era’s time were bumped out of thebusiness by
Rock producers. I for one was a Radio DJ for 43 years and I can tell you that the Soccio era
was the best music period i lived…

– DIDIER DUBOIS
MAY 19TH, 2014 AT 11:52 AM

Wow,but understandable.
Disco isn’t dead.
Wow,but understandable.
Disco isn’t dead.
It just evolved into different genres.
Still if you look at f.i. Neil Rodgers & Giorgio Moroder with Daftpunk it can be magnificent.
So I hope Gino Soccio and other disco-icons who faided out of side,return to give the world
more beautifull music on their own terms.

– Richard Binkhuysen Bergen op Zoom- Holland

SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2014 AT 2:15 AM

I remember, You remember… Forever!!!

– Katja
NOVEMBER 4TH, 2014 AT 2:25 PM

It’s 2014 and your music still gets played regularly here in the UK at house parties and clubs.
Gino you are an inspiration to so many people!

– Matt
DECEMBER 21ST, 2014 AT 9:50 AM

” you never knew the power of your body but when you keep on dancing to the music you
reach up high into the sky” . ” I will remember forever”. Thank you so very very much Gino
Soccio. Cheers.

– rudy
JANUARY 28TH, 2015 AT 10:59 PM

” Can you turn it around? ”

– Hertog - Holland
JUNE 12TH, 2015 AT 9:26 AM

Gino Soccio will rise from the grave…and seize power along with Bobbi Batista, of all ships at
sea.

– Max
JULY 29TH, 2015 AT 10:32 AM

Gino Soccio i would love to invite you to Chicago where we will honor your music.I started
DJing in 1974 and your songs became Chicago Classics with my piers and beyond.917 324