Mario Boncaldo

Italian record producer, composer (Messina, March 20, 1949 - Rome, March 18, 2015) also former DJ and owner of New Rels record store in Rimini (later will be Disco Più by Gianni Zuffa). Began his career as a manager in early 70s with I Camaleonti and Bruno Lauzi, then as a road manager of Lucio Battisti, Barry Ryan and Mungo Jerry along with his childhood friend Willy David. In 1982 with DJ Tony Carrasco was one of the founders of the emerging genre Italo-Disco. They made a couple of planetary hits, also major in both the emerging New York garage scene and Chicago's community house.