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Robert Miles
is the Americanized stage name of Eurodance hitmaker
Roberto Concina, who was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland in
November 1969. Miles disliked music as a child, but by
this early '20s he had become a professional DJ, mixing
techno, trance and progressive house records in small
Italian clubs.
In 1990
the amateur pianist built his own studio and began
collaborating with producer Joe T. Vanelli on Eurodance
tracks. Miles 1995 commercial debut single
"Children" became an Italian club hit, exposing
Europeans to the "dream house" style of dance
music; it later reached the U.K. Top 10 and went platinum
in Britain, Switzerland and Germany. His 1996 full-length
bow Dreamland was also his U.S. debut (on Arista),
though he remained infinitely more popular in Europe than
in North America.
Miles
followed it up with 1997's 23 AM, a spacey release
that featured American divas Kathy Sledge, Nancy Danino
and Barbara Prunas.
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