One arena, two countries and three music legends! On 26 April 2024, the world's most brilliant Austrians - Joy - and the glorious Italians - Gazebo and Pupo - will perform at the Šiauliai Arena!
Tickets are already available at bilietai.lt.
In the Sun City, we will be playing "I like Chopin"
Gazebo, Joy and Pupo! Three names that need no introduction to music fans, three names whose songs have been silently and loudly repeated by millions of fans on every continent.
Italian disco musician Paulo Mazzolini, well known by his stage name Gazebo, was born on 18 February 1960 in the Lebanese capital of Beirut into the family of an Italian diplomat and American singer.
He has lived in Jordan, Denmark, where he learned English at an American school and speaks a total of five languages, and in France. He grew up in Rome for ten years, where he learned to play the guitar.
He started his musical career performing jazz, rock 'n' roll and even punk rock songs. After meeting Paul Micioni, he released his debut and hugely successful single "Masterpiece" in 1982.
A year later, under the pseudonym of Gazebo, he released his debut album under the same name, which featured the worldwide superhit and the most successful song of his career, "I like Chopin".
The hit songs "Lunatic" and "Lovew in Your Eyes" were also successful. He also wrote the lyrics for the Italian singer Ryan Paris' Dolce Vita, which reached the top of the charts in many countries around the world.
A year later, he released his next album, Telephone Mama, followed by two more studio albums, Univision and Portrait. In 1998, BMG released a collection of his best tracks, which of course included Gazebo's superhits "I like Chopin" and "Lunatic".
He went on to release six more albums, making a total of 14. Tears for Galileo, Wet Wings, The Secret have all topped the charts.
He has been involved in various projects as an organiser, arranger, songwriter and has been invited to perform his haunting I Like Chopin on Italian TV Rai 1.
Six years ago, Gazebo, who is coming to Šiauliai, received the Grand Prix at the Corallo Citta di Alghero for his long-lasting career, and was also given a special recognition by thousands of people during the Sette Colli event in Rome.
Cop, teacher and DJ
The members of the Austrian band Joy met when they were still at school together. But then fate took them on their own paths - Andy Schweitzer became a policeman, Freddy Jaklitsch worked as a German language and history teacher at school and Manfred Temmel DJed in a German disco club.
But in 1984, the school friends crossed paths again and decided to pursue a professional music career.
The first single "Lost In Hong Kong" was not a sensation, but it did bring the band to the attention of the public. But already the second single, "Touch By Touch", was a huge success, making it to the European Top Dance 20, No.1 in Austria and "gold" in many European countries. The other two singles "Hello" and "Valerie" have earned the band popularity not only in the Old Continent but also in Asia.
Joy has performed to more than 50,000 people and has been featured in several popular TV shows. Over the course of their career, the band has released four studio albums (the latest In Love was released in 2021), five best-of collections and 18 singles.
The "newborn" of the church choir
The compatriot of the rich and the poor, Enzo Ghinazzi, known around the world by the nickname of "Pupo", is a baker of super-hits. Having grown up in a strict environment and singing in a church choir, Pupo, as newborn babies are called in Italy, became famous with the songs "Ciao" and "Gelato al Cioccolato" (Chocolate ice cream), written by the famous Italian songwriter Christiano Malgioglio.
The album that made his success was called "Chocolate ice cream" under the same name. In 1981, at the San-Reno Festival, with the song "Su di Noi", "Baby" came only third, but won worldwide fame.
Triumphing at more than 50 music festivals, recording 18 albums and selling more than 25 million copies, Pupo is a welcome sight in all corners of the world.
He becomes a TV presenter, participates in a reality show in Brazil and several more times in the San Remo Festival, bakes hits, opens an ice-cream parlour named after his superhit Gelato al Cioccolato, which employs one of his three daughters Valentina.
Not only "Gelato al Cioccolato", but also "I like Chopin", "Lunatic", "Hello", "Valerie", "Su di Noi" and other superhits of the legendary musicians will be played on 26 April 2024, not in London, not in Paris, not in Tokyo, but in Šiauliai Arena!
