Peter Jacques band was an Italian Disco band, created by French-Italian-American businessman Jacques Fred Petrus (1949–1986) and songwriter and producer Mauro Malavasi (1958-). They released three albums all reaching minor success but most of all opened up the US market for Italian made disco. The albums were, Fire Night Dance in 1978, Welcome Back in 1979 and Dancing In The Street in 1985. After financial problems Petrus had less means and studio time to succeed with PJB and his other projects like Change and B. B. & Q. band and after the murder of him in Guadeloupe in 1986 PJB vanished. Jacques Fred Petrus (born February 22, 1948 in Guadeloupe, French West Indies - June 8, 1987 in Sainte-Anne Guadeloupe, French West Indies) was a French-Italian businessman and a pioneer of Italian Disco music. Mauro Malavasi (born in 1957) is an Italian pianist, songwriter and producer. Malavasi had during the early 70s educated himself at the conservatory of Bologna, Italy in the composition, choir and orchestral disciplines. During those years he also developed his piano to become a masterly piano player. After a crucial meeting in Bologna, Italy, with businessman Jacques Fred Petrus in the mid 70s the pair created a production company called Goody Music Productions (GMP) in 1978. After their first project release that year called Macho (including the top ten track Im A Man) the followed up that success with new projects like Peter Jacques band and Revanche. All these projects were to be considered more or less studio projects that toured successfully both in Europe and in the US with several different line-ups during the late 70s. Malavasi, that was Petrus right hand and closest co-worker, wrote most of the tracks on the earliest projects before he got more competition from other by Petrus used Italians like Davide Romani and Paolo Gianolio and later on even from American songwriters like Kashif, Timmy Allen and Kevin Robinson. Petrus and Malavasi launched several new projects during the 80s like Change, B. B. & Q. band and High fashion. Change became both Malavasis and Petrus biggest success. During 1980-1983 Malavasi wrote several hits of which Searching (#1 spot for nine weeks on Billboards Club Play Singles chart; featuring Luther Vandross) by Change in 1980, On the Beat (#8 spot on for FMA-Milanthe Billboard Black Singles chart), Time for Love, Starlette and Mistakes from B. B. & Q. bands 1981 album and Ill do my best (for you baby) (#17 on Billboards Club Play Singles chart) by The Ritchie family in 1982 are the highlights. After 1983 Malavasi left Petrus due to the latters financial problems and embarked on a successful career as songwriter and producer outside the Petrus sphere with mostly Italian artists like Lucio Dalla although also scoring Italian hits with the group Cube and a pan-European smash hit with Letter From My Heart performed by Brit vocalist Steve Allen and later Italian superstar Andrea Bocelli. Malavasi co-produced several Bocelli albums from 1997 until the present, of which Romanza (title track written by Malavasi) from 1997 earned huge success and reached the # 1 spot on both Billboards Heatseekers and Top World Music Albums charts. The collaboration brought Malavasi back to his original roots of classic music that he studied at the conservatory at Bologna in the early 70s. For FMA-Milan, Mauro Malavasi is now supervising, among others, the artistic production of the Canadian classical-crossover soprano Karine Carusi, whose album Bolero (2006) has been released in Japan by PonyCanyon Inc. Her voice and artistry have been defined by Tokyos CD Journal as proper of a post Kathleen Battle.
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