Eiffel 65

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Eiffel 65 is an Italian electronic/eurodance 3-piece group, formed in the late 90's and best known for their international hit "Blue (Da Ba Dee)". Their other hit singles include "Move Your Body" and "Too Much of Heaven". The name "Eiffel" was chosen randomly by a computer program and the "65" was scribbled onto their name on a demo by mistake; it was actually part of a phone number. Eiffel 65 acheived rare success in the US. Their debut single became a top 10 hit and their album a top 5 placing and sold over 2 million units. No other Italian pop or dance group before or after has ever acheived such sales in the US.

Their second album Contact! was released in 2001 and whilst it did not sell as well as Europop, it did enjoy a fair share of success in Europe. The group continued to enjoy success in their native Italy with such songs as "Viaggia Insieme a Me", "Voglia di Dance All Night", and "Cosa Resterà". In 2003, Eiffel 65 released a self-titled album, mainly in Italian.

Eiffel 65 also made 30 remixes of tracks by other artists (like S Club 7's hit single "Reach") between 1999 and 2002 and in early 2006 a remix of Yo Yo Mundi's "L'Ultimo Testimone".

In early March, 2005 the group's DJ, Gabry Ponte, left the group to be able to focus on his solo career.

On May 16 2006 the remaining two members, Maurizio Lobina and Jeffrey Jey, left Bliss Corporation to continue on their own with their own production company. Since the name "Eiffel 65" is property of Bliss Corporation the duo has decided to continue under a new name.

Eiffel 65's long anticipated fourth album, under the working title 'Crash Test', had already finished production by the time of Maury's and Jeffrey's departure from Bliss Corporation, and is due for release early summer 2006. The album's lyrics are believed to be in both English and Italian.

In June, 2006, it was announced that Eiffel 65's new name would be Bloom 06, consisting of the same members Gianfranco Radone and Maurizio Lobina, but featuring new instruments, namely, electric guitars. The first album Crash Test 01, orginally to be Eiffel 65's fourth album, will be the first album of Bloom 06. Their first single will be self-titled as Bloom 06. One of the tracks on Crash Test 01 is called "In the City"

It has been hinted that the name 'Eiffel 65' could be used for a new Bliss Corporation group that might possibly consist of Gabry Ponte, Roberto Molinaro (a DJ/producer with whom Eiffel 65 have worked frequently) and other Bliss Corporation artists.

Contents

1 Members
2 Trivia
3 Discography

3.1 Albums
3.2

4 External links

Members

Jeffrey Jey (real name Gianfranco Randone) - Born in Sicily, on January 5, 1970 - vocals, bass.
Maury Lobina (old name Apollo, real name Maurizio Lobina) - Born in Asti, Piedmont, October 30, 1973 - keyboards, guitar.
Gabry Ponte (real name Gabriele Ponte) - Born in Turin, Piedmont, 20 April, 1973 - DJ, left the group on 8 March 2005 to pursue a solo career.

Trivia

Eiffel 65's "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" was featured in one of the original soundtracks of Universal Pictures movie "Big Fat Liar (2002)".
Some other minor lyricists and songwriters once inclined to change and confuse the lyrics of the song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" when they mistakenly listen or hear what Jeffrey Jey was chanting at the chorus when the song's final part was being played, until a few years later it has become a parody for some music listeners in which the song lyrics goes like this:

''"I'm Blue. If I was green I would die".'' [x7]
instead of
''"I'm Blue. Da Ba Dee Da Ba Die".'' [x7]

Their favourite hobbies are as follows: Jeffrey Jey - videogames, and going to the movies; Maurizio Lobina - soccer, Ferrari, and videogames; Gabry Ponte - martial arts, and collecting cartoon soundtracks. All of these hobbies can be seen, heard and understood and often portrayed from their songs and music videos.
Eiffel 65's "One Goal" was used as a theme for the French nationals at the European Soccer Championship back in 2000ad.
Gianfranco Randone got his nickname "Jeffrey" by his American friend who called him this as a joke, to make his name sound more American. Gianfranco the went to a vocalist audition at a disco and someone there thought he should come up with a cool nickname. So he took "Jeffrey" and added "Jay" (as in VJ or VeeJay) to the end. To make it sound more like a name, he changed the "Jay" to "Jey". "Jeffrey Jey".
Eiffel 65's "Living In My City" was used as the theme song to the 2006ad Turin Winter Olympic Games.
Eiffel 65's "I'm Blue" main chorus' part: "If I was green I would die..." was also thought to be "I'm in need of a dye...", in which within that line the word "die" was replaced by or meant to be or sounded the same as a Blue "dye", for hair.

Discography

Albums

Europop (1999) US #4, 2x Platinum
Contact! (2001)
Eiffel 65 (2003) (mostly Italian language)
Crash Test 01 (2006) (to be released) (First album as "Bloom 06")

"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" (1999) - #3 IT,#6 US, #1 UK, #1 IRE, #1 FR, #1 AU, #1 Latvia (10 wks)
"Episode I" Only released in Italy as a Vinyl
"Move Your Body" (2000) - #1 IT,#53 US, #3 UK, #4 IRE, #1 FR, #4 AU, #7 Latvia
"Too Much of Heaven" (2000) - #1 IT,#98 US, #20 FR, #50 AU, #5 Latvia
"My Console" - Only released as a promo in Spain and Portugal
"One Goal" #37 France
"Episode II"
"Back In Time" #13 Italy
"Lucky (In My Life)" #128 US, #26 Canada, #15 Italy, #23 Austria, #68 France
"80's Stars" #27 Italy
"Losing You" - Only released in Canada as a Vinyl
"Cosa Resterà (In A Song)" #5 Italy
"Quelli Che Non Hanno Età" #4 Italy
"Viaggia Insieme A Me" #13 Italy
"Viaggia Insieme A Me RMX"
"Una Notte E Forse Mai Più" #10 Italy
"Voglia Di Dance All Night"

External links

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