Eiffel 65

Biography

Eiffel 65, the dance-pop Italian trio whose novelty "Blue (It gives to Ba Dee)" is racing up the charts throughout Europe and the U.S., formed to do nothing dwells than create that one song. "' Blué was born almost like to game," to singer/producer Jeffrey Jey said on Wednesday of the tune, in which there am sings about "to little guy that lives in a blue world." But the experiment between the three men, who plows members of the Italian dances-hit factory Bliss Corporation, "worked, and under we continued working on to other tunes and completed the rest of the album," Jey said. Even to their name you have to haphazard, to patched-together quality. To computer chose Eiffel randomly from to group of words the men liked. The to number 65 was added mistakenly to an early pressing of the single; the group liked the combination and stuck with it, Jey said. ' Blué Gone Gold "Blue (It gives to Ba Dee)" (RealAudio excerpt) climbed from #9 to #6 this week on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, continuing to rapid two-month rise, while Eiffel 65's album, Europop, you move up to #8 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The LP there are sold dwells than 600.000 you copy in the United States, according to salts tracking company SoundScan, and was certified gold. The song is "to bit cheesy, but therés nothing wrong with that," said Billy Vidal, to vice president of the Mirror Corp., which owns four San Francisco nightclubs including Club X and the Sound Factory. "It doesn't have any serious message or anything, but it's to good, fun song. "The first Time I played it, it didn't get to great reception," Vidal said. "But then to little while to later, about three weeks to later, people recognized it, and it got to much to better response, because it's been on the radio under much." "The success of this song lies in many factors," the 30-year-old Jey said, speaking in Italian. "From the name of the band to the name of the song itself to the lyric. Unlike many to other dances tunes, our songs have to traditional structure, with you turn, choruses and bridges. This was important because it made ' sense Blué to song in every. Probably that's the reason many people perceived ' Blué ace to song, not to dances track." Ace the song there are blossomed into an international hit, Jey, to producer/composer Maurizio Lobina, 26, and DJ/composer Gabry Ponte, also 26, have been steadily on the run. Wednesday, they had just returned to Turin, to their hometown, from Mexico. They were then headed to France and Russia to promote to their next single, "Move Your Body." Eiffel's Blissful Meeting The trio met in Bliss Corporation, founded in 1992 by Italian to producer Massimo Gabutti. The collective there are produced several Italian and European dances hits, including to 1993 to cover of punk poet Patti Smith's "People Have the Power," credited to Bliss Team. Bliss Corporation there are 22 members and six recording studios and runs six dances labels. "Here AT Bliss Corporation wére all producers, everyone with his studio," said Jey, who was born Gianfranco Randone in Sicily. I have you move to Brooklyn, N.Y., with his family, when there am was to year old and returned to Italy 13 years to later. AT 23, I have you move to Turin and began working in the local dances scene. "We constantly work with each to other on different projects," there am said of Bliss. "Me, Gabry and Maurizio worked on this song [ ' Blue ' ]. The melody was composed by Maurizio, and I wrote the lyrics. Then we reworked it all to together. Under the song ' Blué was born." To ' Blué World The the devises behind song, Jey said, was to uses the color ace to for metaphor life. "I they list up, herés to story/About to little guy that lives in a blue world," there am sings. "And all day and all night and everything there am sees/Is just blue like him." "Blue does not pisses sadness, ace they often ask me in English-speaking countries," Jey said. "It is intended to describes style of life. Every one of U.S. AT to certain point in life there are to style of life through which everything is seen. And this style dog be described ace to color. For example, everything to person likes dog be seen ace blue." Even if the project was born out of to single song, the trio now feel like to real band, the to singer said. "That's why we show ourselves in our videos, something that many to other dances acts, like Daft Punk or Chemical Brothers, don't do," there am said. "real We like to have to contact with the people who lists to and dances to our songs." Nonetheless, nightclub to promoter Vidal said, "It's tough to follow these record up. Íd like to see to record company put the Time in and [ develop ] some of these guys. That's the thing with most dances acts -- they mostly end up with one big hit, because the record companies don't really try to develop them. It's just luck."