"It was a larger-than-life dream“
says Giorgio Moroder, born in 1940 in Ortisei. A dream he never imagined he would fulfil one day: to become a musician and a successful composer.
Indeed, the success of the man who greets us with a fist bump in his house in Val Gardena is way more than anyone could have imagined. His mother least of all. She wanted her Giovanni Giorgio (‘My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio’) to have a proper job: working as a surveyor for the Province and lead a financially stable life.
Yet Moroder interrupted his studies to gig around clubs. He had seven or eight songs at most, and a car, in which he slept now and again between concerts to make ends meet.
A dream came true
Today, seventyseven years later, we’re lucky enough to even find Giorgio Moroder in his South Tyrolean house. Because as nice as it is here, with his (own) art in the garden and the stunning view across the Sassolungo, Moroder spends most of his time with his wife and son in Los Angeles. He’s worked with Barbra Streisand and Elton John, given many successful summer hits to disco queen Donna Summer, composed countless hits for films the likes of Top Gun and Flashdance as well as composed the soundtrack for the Olympic Games and Football World Cups.
He was awarded three Oscars and four Grammys, published more than 100 gold and platinum records, and had been enjoying his retirement for quite some time (by playing golf, as you do), when French electropop duo Daft Punk invited him to feature as guest of honour on a piece by the enlightening title Giorgio by Moroder. He tells the story of his life, underscored by fresh techno beats.
He’s been touring the world again ever since as a DJ, and has also released a new record, the first in 30 years. When he tells us who he still wants to work with, his eyes start to twinkle. Because Giorgio Moroder, and this is obvious in his South Tyrolean home, is not a man who likes to blow his own trumpet. Yet he sits down, patiently, for a picture of him at his piano. He doesn’t say much, but we get it all the same. He doesn’t have much time. He’s got stuff to do. Because the man from Val Gardena is living his dream.
You can find out more about Val Gardena, the holiday valley of the Dolomites, directly on the website of
Dolomites Val Gardena.
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