Danny Peyronel

Danny Peyronel is an English singer, songwriter, keyboard player and producer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 15, 1953. His school days were spent in an English public school, and he also took piano lessons from the age of 5, as well as studied composing and music theory. He left Argentina for further studies at Juilliard in New York. He was the keyboardist in London based glam rock band Heavy Metal Kids 1973-75, a favourite among critics, but not with the record buying audience. In 1975 he joined [a153677] as their first keyboard player, and the only studio album he appeared on, the 1976 No Heavy Petting, marked a clear change in the band's sound - and career - and Peyronel wrote or co-wrote three of the album's nine tracks, and also contributed with harmony vocals. He left UFO already in July 1976 to form The Blue Max, whose only album in 1978 was a flop. A period of traveling and songwriting for other artists followed, before he in 1983 played Moog Liberation and sang on [m838252]. Riff was a popular Argentinian hardrock band where his older brother Michel was drummer, and legendary Pappo guitarist. The Peyronel brothers produced the LIVE album, but Daniel was never a member of Riff. The following year he settled in Madrid, and guest-starred on [m599448], the Spanish metal band's 1984 2nd album. When they dissolved the first time in 1985, leader Salvador Domínguez started a new hardrock band with the Peyronel brothers, Tarzen, that released two albums in five years and toured heavily with both Twisted Sister and on their own. When it was over in 1990, Daniel Peyronel relocated to Los Angeles, where another period of songwriting and collaborations with other artist started, like Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Cher. In 2003, he'd moved to Milan, Italy where he put together a new version of Heavy Metal Kids. He also released his only solo album so far, the 2005 Make the Monkey Dance, which bombed. In 2011, he formed X UFO, a band of former UFO members who released one album in 2012, Vol 1 The Live Files ‎, with mainly re-worked versions of old UFO songs. In 2014, they changed their name to House Of X and released an album of originals. Apart from all the above projects, he also wrote songs for Sade, Meat Loaf and Nick Mason, as well as singing opera as a "spinto" tenor. Having both grown up, worked and moved around the world, he sees himself as a Londoner.